Re: Validating Internet Sources

Richard Terrass (ricter@wn.net)
Fri, 9 Feb 1996 20:35:04 EST

dreid@calvin.stemnet.nf.ca wrote:
> High school students now use newsgroups and homepages as sources of
> information in their research reports. Does anyone have a set of guidelines
> or a student handbook for students to use in validating those sources of
> information?

Derrick,

There are several good online style guides which cover this subject. I
think that you should be able to find someting which will fit your needs
at one of these sites.A few you may want to look at include:

Steve Baker maintains a page on citing online resources with links to
several other guides as well at:
http://www.uu.edu/library/citing.htm

Jeff Becklehimer maintains a page covering the National Library of
Medicine's preferred style for citing online resources at:
http://www.nrlssc.navy.mil/meta/bibliography.html

Mark Wainwright proposes a citsation style for online sources based on
suggestions in alt.english.usage at:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/maw13/citation.html

Janice Walker of the Univ. of South Florida maintains a page on MLA
style citation of Internet sources endorsed by the Alliance for
Computers and Writing at:
http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/mla.html

The U Texas Undergaduate Writing Center maintains an online MLA and APA
citation guide at:
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/uwc/.html/citation.html

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