Sarah Debnam

SLM 521

October 26, 2004

CITING INTERNET RESOURCES

Even though all of these sites provide valuable information about citing resources, the site that I would choose to use with the students that I have observed and worked with in the computer lab is The Write Source found at http://www.thewritesource.com/mla.htm . The main reason I chose this site is because it is so well organized. Students would be able to click exactly where they needed to go to get the information they need without having to spend time sifting through other information. Also, this site gives specific examples of different types of citations almost immediately. The other sites either use a lot of rhetoric or they just provide links to citing particular resources. My feeling is that students would not read all of it and just scroll down to the examples provided, or they would become confused about all of the choices. I also chose this site because its design is appealing and eye-catching. I think that students would prefer this design over the other sites because it is visually attractive and stimulating to the eye. Good presentation of material is important because it holds students’ interest and will help keep them focused on gathering the information that is necessary to them.

The other site I would include is Classroom Connect found at http://www.classroom/community/connection/howto/citeresources.jhtml. This site would be important because it contains examples of how to cite online images, media clips, and sounds that was not included in any of the other cites.

Articles Cited – APA Style

The Quotable Mark Twain. (n.d.). Retrieved October 31, 2004, from

http://salwen.com/mtquotes.html

The World Factbook. (2004,October). Retrieved October 31, 2004, from

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/af.html

2003 Winston Cup Series Drivers. (n.d.). Retrieved October 31, 2004, from

http://www.nascar.com/drivers/list/wc/dps/

McKenzie, Jamie. (2001, June). Building Good New Ideas. From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal, 10, no.9. Retrieved October 31, 2004, from

http://fno.org/jun01/building.html