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In the not-too-distant past, students were expected to turn in only handwritten or typed papers. However, with today's ease of access to the Internet and free applications, teachers are now expecting students to go beyond the confines of text-only productions. Various online programs make it possible to create multi-layered term papers that are rich in images, audio, and even video. And most of these tools are free to use! Students can now access their work from nearly anywhere that has an Internet connection. In the case of collaborative research projects, this same technology allows team members to work with each other even when they are in different locations. A wide variety of online and offline tools, techniques, and tips to help students research, write, edit, prepare, and present term papers are discussed and explained here. This revelatory guidebook to the latest in term paper technology also supports Common Core Standards for the reading of technical accounts and texts.

Networking is one of the most important skills that is necessary for success in business, but is rarely something we're taught. This volume teaches readers the importance of making new connections and keeping them. The narrative explains the type of connections a person should seek, which ensures that the quality of those connections can open doors, not close them

It has become almost impossible to imagine a world without Google, the most popular and powerful Internet search engine that as revolutionized the way we seek and locate information. This book seeks to show students how to get the most out of Google—with its search engine, maps, videos, news, docs, and email features—when working on school projects, research papers, and multimedia presentations. Google helps users navigate through this bewildering universe of knowledge, but this book will provide readers with a greater degree of guidance, showing them how to harness Google's various abilities to locate exactly what they're looking for. Discussions of online netiquette—including the avoidance of cyberbullying, plagiarism, and inappropriate content—round out the discussion.