Research Tools in a Google Drive Document
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Research Tools in a Google Drive Document


I watched this video from FreeTech4Teachers and was inspired to see more on how to research inside a Google Drive document. The best one is above. It shows the amazing things you can do by going to "Tools," and then "research."  You can do things like
  • do a Google search
  • find scholarly articles
  • find images and choose between ones that need citations or not
  • how to drag images into the document
  • have MPA, APA, Chicago style footnotes automatically embedded into the document




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