For citing electronic resources, I would send my
students to the Classroom
Connect page . This page gives the information in a compact, efficient
manner. The information needed for the citation is shown in its format,
followed by an example demonstrating the citation. The other web sites
had a general list of information needed for all citations and then skipped
to examples for each category. With high school students, the classroom
connect page would work much better. Students would just have to “plug
in” the information from their source and follow the order and format shown.
The classroom connect page does not have an
exhaustive list of electronic source types. However, it does have e-mail
and the world wide web which are the two sources I have found my students
use the most. The other source that many students use are online encyclopedias.
This is not on the Classroom Connect site. I would refer my students to
the Indiana
University Libraries site for citing online encyclopedias or any other
sources not found at Classroom Connect. The
Indiana University Libraries site is also brief and to the point, with
a format similair to Classroom Connect. The difference is that the information
needed for the citation is listed in order, but it is not shown in the
format it should be in for the citation. The student has to look at the
example to see how the finished product should look. The Classroom Connect
site shows the information needed and example in the same format, making
it eaier for students to use when making their citations.
Sample citations
APA style citations:
Central Intelligence Agency. (2001). Afghanistan [Electronic Version]
The World Factbook, retrieved June 2, 2002 from
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/af.html
Salwen, P. (2001). The Quotable Mark Twain. Retrieved June 1, 2002,
from http://salwen.com/mtquotes.html
MLA style citations:
McKenzie, Jamie. "Building Good news Ideas."
From Now On 10, 9 June 2001. 2 June
2002 <http://fno.org/jun01/building.html >
Turner Sports Interactive Inc. “ Nascar Drivers: Kevin Harvick.” [Online]
2 June 2002.
< http://www.nascar.com/DRIVERS/winston/KHarvick00/index.html>.