CITING INTERNET RESOURCES
As a high school teacher, I would choose the Write Source (http://www.thewritesource.com/mla.htm) for my students to use as a guide when citing references from the Internet. I chose this site because it is a very comprehensive site—no more so than others that I looked at but I liked the design of this site. The Write Source is an attractive site and easy to navigate. It has a black background with five major category areas shown in the same format with a mildly fluorescent color that shows up nicely against the background. Many of the other sources I visited had the different styles of citations mixed together and it was difficult to distinguish between MLA and APA. High school students would find this site easy to navigate without being too juvenile. When a link is clicked, a vertical panel appears listing the different ways to list electronic sources in MLA format. All the information for that topic is contained in that particular panel. When you wish to view another topic or category, you must click another link. This format is followed for all of the categories and topics included on the site—not just the references. Other categories included on this page were multimedia and writing topics. The web site is segregated by grade level and, while the focus seems to be on the elementary grades, there are categories about writing topics and examples of student work for grades 9-12.
I am using the MLA format for the following citations:
Salwen, Peter. The Quotable Mark Twain. 20 May 1996. March 6, 2006. http://salwen.com/mtquotes.html
United States. Central Intelligence Agency. The World
Factbook-Afghanistan
Last updated 10 January 2006. March 6, 2006. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/af.html
NASCAR.com. 2003 Winston Cup Series Drivers. 2004 NASCAR/Turner Sports Interactive. Online posting.
6 March 2006. http://www.nacsar.com/drivers/list/wc/dps.
McKenzie,
Jane. “Building Good New Ideas”. [Electronic version]. From Now On—The
Educational Technology Journal. Volume 10/ No.9. June 2001. March 6, 2006. http://fno.org/jun01/building.html