Citing Internet
Sources
When viewing the four websites of
the American Psychological Association, I think that the one that would be most
helpful to my high school students is the General Forms for Electronic
References page. This page provides a
good example of how to cite a periodical and document retrieved from the internet. This is how the majority of the work that
students do in school will have to be turned in.
The media page lists helpful
information and explains why citations are done a certain way, but it’s hard to
see exactly what they look like when there is no example shown. It helps if students can see a sample of the
work and apply their materials to that citation. Students like to be spoon-fed, so examples in
this day and age are something that is expected by many kids now. The source
page lists a variety of examples, but it tends to be confusing. I can see students having a hard time
determining exactly where their article fits.
They may spend too much time questioning and mix up the information in
their citation. The text page simply
deals with page numbers and this is incorporated in the general forms page.
General
Forms for Electronic References {Electronic Version}. (2001). American Psychological Association
Publication Manual, 5th Edition.
http://www.apastyle.org/elecgeneral.html
These are the four
citations that were requesting be cited in the
activity…
APA Format
Salwen, Peter.
(1996). The Quotable Mark Twain. Salwen Business Communications.
Retrieved from the World Wide Web,
CIA’s The World Factbook: Afganistan. (2003).
Retrieved from the World Wide Web,
2003
Winston Cup Series Drivers.
(2003). Retrieved from the World Wide Web,
McKenzie, Jamie. (2001) Building Good News
Ideas {Electronic Version}. From Now On The
Educational Technology Journal, Vol.10, No.9.
Retrieved http://fno.org/jun01/building.html