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Research Sites and Reference Information for My Hero Project
How to record your information
Don't forget to write down where you are finding your information, the title, author, and date it was published (and the date you retrieved it if on a web site).
There are different ways of recording information depending on where you found it.
Web Page:
Author (Last name, initials). Year published. Title of article. Retrieved on date. Web address.

  • Animal Hero: Balto. Retrieved April12, 2009 from http://www.myhero.com/myhero/
  • Plimpton, George. (1999). Muhammad Ali. Retrieved from http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/ali01.html

Book
Author (Last name, initials). Year published. Title of Book. Location published: Publisher's Name.



Magazine Article
Author. (Date of the magazine). Title. Title of the magazine, issue #, pages.

  • Henry, W. A., III. (1990, April 9). Making the grade in today's schools. Time, 135, 28-31.


My Hero
Time 100 Heroes
Biographies for Kids
Biography.com
Biography Dictionary
Short Biographies
Bio 4 Kids
Academy of Achievement
Amazing Americans
Google Directory