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Citing Sources
Writing a term paper? Look here for citation examples from the Chicago Manual of Style, MLA, and Turabian, plus citation styles for web pages, online magazines, and electronic books.

Guide to Writing a Basic Essay
All essays follow a format: thesis statement, introduction, body of the essay, and conclusion. Finishing touches make your writing sing. This site also includes links to more essay writing sites.

Michael Harvey's The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing
There are a lot of nuts, bolts, and tools inside this toolbox, plus advice on how to infuse your writing with clarity, logic, and structure.

Oswego High School Writing Guide
The teachers at Oswego High School in New York State share their advice on writing outlines, writing thesis statements, constructing paragraphs, and citing sources.

Research 101
Amp up your research skills by working through this six-unit tutorial. No skipping ahead! And take the Review Quiz at the end of each unit before moving on to the next unit.

Mega Sites

High School Ace
The Ace aims to connect school teens with resources on everything from grammar to physics. Teens will also find tips on research and writing, plus daily updates from major newspapers.

Homework Spot
You’ll find links to school subjects, current events, student projects, and science fair winners, plus tips on succeeding in school.

SchoolAtlas.com: The Academic Supersite
Links to psychology, religion, art, and economics augment the usual links to math, history, science, and English web sites. You’ll also find maps, flags, a writing center, and info about college.

Sparknotes.com
Updated daily, this site covers economics, philosophy, psychology, chemistry, computer science, history, literature, math . . . and the standardized test world of SAT, GRE, and more.

Subject Sites

Current Events and Issues

CNNfyi.com
CNN’s web page for students features news, photos, links, games, background info, insight into real life, and online dictionaries and atlases.

Internet Resources: Government and Legal
Timberland's Internet Resources government page features links for local, state, federal, and international government.

Internet Resources: News and Media
Timberland's Internet Resources news and media page features links for local and national newspapers, plus magazines, radio and TV.

Online Newspapers.com
So what’s going on in Aberdeen . . . Scotland? Click on the Aberdeen District & Independent and find out. You’ll also find other newspapers from all over the United States and the world.

Places in the News
It’s happening where? Find out more about places in the news at this site sponsored by the Map Division of the U.S. Library of Congress. Zoom options allow you to get up close to places you see on TV and the Internet.

Social Issues
The Multnomah County Library Homework Center sponsors this selection of links to current social issues.

U.S. Congress
Read up on legislation up for debate in the Congressional Record, look up how your guy or gal in Congress voted, and monitor committee hearings.

World News Digest
Click on "World News Digest" (1980-2004) to trace recent news stories. Click on "Facts on File News Archive" (1940-1979) to find the background boiling behind every "new" news story. You’ll also find historic documents, obituaries, newspaper editorials, and everything else you need to keep current.

History and Cultures

Electronic Resources on Diversity
Americans spring from many countries and cultures; this site features a half-dozen search paths. "Hotsites with a Focus," for example, gathers sites on art, music, language, literature, popular culture, history, politics, activism, and business.

Internet Resources: History
Timberland's Internet Resources history page features links for Northwest and World History, and everything in between. You'll also find links to museums and historical exhibits.

Smithsonian Institute
News about exhibits and programs at the Smithsonian is just the beginning of what this site has to offer. You’ll also find links to sites on paleontology, textiles and quilts, engineering feats, folk life, transportation, and all kinds of technology.

The History Net
A comprehensive site from the National Historical Society. Contains full text articles from publications like Civil War Times and Military History.

Language and Literature

Internet Resources: Literature
Timberland's selection of sites from the wide world of literature links you to authors, folklore, mythology, poetry, reading recommendations, and writing how-tos.

Kids and Teens : School Time : Foreign Languages
The site begins with links to lessons in such languages as Japanese, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, then circles the globe for online courses in Dutch, Kiswahili, Hebrew, and many more. Sponsored by the Kids and Teens Open Directory Project.

Merriam-Webster Online
Can’t spell a word? Look it up in the dictionary! Hop here for a dictionary, thesaurus, word of the day, and word games. You can also look up a word in 230 languages.

Vocab Vitamins
We’ve all been there. Sometimes we need help writing so that other humans can understand us! The introduction says it best: “You can take grammar on topic by topic or refer back to this page when you’re chewing your pencil, waging one of those bitter mental battles about proper comma placement or subject verb agreement.”

People and Places

50states.com
Links to more information take you beyond the almanac. For example, Washington’s state bird is the Willow Goldfinch . . . and there’s a link to more info. The highest point is Mount Rainier at 14,410 feet . . . and there’s a link to more info. You get the idea.

Access Washington
State government information and services are the focus of this site. Other resources include travel and traffic reports, legislative and economic updates, and state facts. The “Just for Kids” section offers help with homework.

Internet Resources: Biographies
Timberland's Internet Resources biography page features links for people, people, and more people.

Lands and People Online
Click on "Homework Help' and you'll find this database. If accessing from outside the library, you’ll need to use a TRL library card.

Merriam-Webster’s Atlas
More than a collection of maps of world countries and American states, this site also includes facts on total land area, population, gross domestic product, land use, and flags.

U.S. State Department Background Notes
This site provides information about three areas of inquiry: individual countries, international organizations, and State Department bureaus and their work. An FAQ section addresses global problems, supplementing the usual facts about climate, political systems, education, and other features.

Math, Science, and Technology

Algebasics
From basic equations to definitely not basic quadratics, find out how to do all things algebraic.

Cascades Volcano Observatory
What’s cooking in the Cascade Mountains? The U.S. Geological Survey tracks volcanic activity, and includes FAQ’s about volcanoes, monitoring techniques, maps, and volcanoes in other places.

ChemiCool
Anchored by an elegant Periodic Table, this cool site includes a dictionary, resource list, and chemistry forum.

Chemtutor
Chemtutor is designed to help high school and college students with basic chemistry, focusing on aspects of chemistry such as atomic structure, elements, reactions, solutions, and acids and bases.

Coolmath.com
How cool is math? Pretzel your brain around fractals, polyhedra, limits, and tessellations. And to the true math fanatic, even algebra has its moments.

Endangered Species
Check here for species that are endangered or already extinct. Search tools help you to identify endangered species in Washington and other U.S. states.

Environmental Protection Agency Student Center
Topics for students include global warming, auto air pollution, the Clean Air Act, endangered species, groundwater and watershed information, and chemicals commonly found around the house and neighborhood.

How Stuff Works
How does this site work? Articles highlight gizmos in the news. Sidebars link you to gadgets, questions, funny stories, and surveys. And you can also submit a question and get linked to relevant sites.

Internet Resources: Science and Environment
Timberland's Internet Resources science page features links for science as well as zoos, tide tables and more.

Science Daily
Updated every 15 minutes, this site boasts daily videos on the latest research in basic science, space, technology, nature, earth science, and health. News events, polls, book reviews, and other features testify to the lively nature of science.

The Eight Planets
Check here for the mythology, history, and current scientific knowledge of the eight planets and their myriad moons. There are also links to sites about spacecraft and other solar systems.

The Exploratorium: The Museum of Science, Art, and Human Perception
Visit the online version of San Francisco’s science, art, and braininess museum! You’ll find exhibits on medicine, technology, art, world cultures, outer space weirdness, and the physics of sports.

Revised 4/22/2008

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