Citing Internet Resources
Each of the four APA
websites I examined was very thorough in their examples of how to document
different kinds of websites. The four main groups, media, general, source, and
text, were all in different locations on the same website and if I hadn’t
previously been given the destination addresses, I would have found navigation
a bit tedious. The four MLA websites were all from different hosts and, I found
them to be directed more for the younger, high school aged, audience.
After reviewing the eight
different websites, I have chosen that the Layfayette
MLA citing resource is the most user friendly for high school aged researchers.
I found that the instructions on the site were extremely easy to read, follow,
and reproduce. The other websites, especially the APAstyle.org sites, were
focused more on professional journals and articles rather than commercial
websites that would be frequented more by high school students. I was very
impressed with the simplicity with which they explained the proper format for documenting
each of the different types of websites one could be citing in a paper. I felt
the APA focused websites were successful in providing examples of each kind of
documentation, but failed to explain how they came to create that final
product. The Layfayette.edu website was the most effective in educating me on
how to properly cite a web resource in an academic paper.
The following websites
are documented in MLA format
1. Salwen, Peter. The Quotable Mark Twain. 20 May 1996. 10 Feb 2006 <http://salwen.com/mtquotes.html>.
2. United States Central Intelligence
Agency. CIA - The World Factbook –
3. Nascar. Nascar.com – Drivers.
10 Feb 2006. 10 Feb 2006 <http://www.nascar.com/DRIVERS/winston/KHarvick00/index.html>.
4. Mackenzie, Jamie. Building Good New Ideas. June 2006. 10 Feb 2006 <http://fno.org/jun01/building.html>.
My chosen website for
the assignment