Mini Digital Research Essay
Topic 1:
Are video games good for kids?
Describe at least three things that are good about playing video games. Describe at least one thing that is bad about playing video games.

Topic 2:

How can you keep safe on the Internet?
Give 3 or more things you can do to keep yourself safe on the Internet. What is one thing that you should never do?

Have-to's Can-do's

Use 5 or more websites for your research.

Write proper MLA Citations. Collect the resources to include in your document.

Use your best writing for this 5 paragraph essay. (Write as if you were submitting it for your ELA teacher.)

Use this student planning sheet called notecards to gather and organize your research. There are spaces to copy and paste text, write your citations, and take notes from the text that you chose.

Using the word processor, type a first draft that you will submit along with your final project.

You can write more that the minimum number of items required.

You can use an outline to help you organize your research.

Open this website created by Long Island University. You will use as an MLA Style Guide. It has good, color visuals. Another site that has more detailed citations for electronic resources is from Purdue University's The OWL MLA Formatting and Stlye Guide.

You can use a different student planning sheet called notecards for each website that you visit. This way you are keeping your information organized and free of plagiarism.