Beyond the MLA handbook : documenting electronic sources on the Internet.

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• Creators:
  Harnack, Andrew ; Kleppinger, Gene
• Corporate Creators:
  Eastern Kentucky University
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Bibliographic Citations Citations For Electronic Internet Internet Sources Sources Style Book
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Eastern Kentucky University
• Abstract:
  Responding to the needs of writers, teachers, students, and scholars using the MLA style of documentation,
  
  professional organizations and researchers are in the process of creating citation conventions that seek to
  
  demonstrate efficient and unambiguous reference to Internet sources. Going beyond the limited recommendations in
  
  The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (1995), Janice Walker's "MLA-Style Citations for Electronic
  
  Sources," for example, presents a largely admirable style for documentation, worthy of endorsement by the Alliance
  
  for Computers and Writing. In spite of its usefulness, however, a close examination of the style reveals several
  
  noteworthy ambiguities and infelicities. Four problematic areas can be identified: (1) distinguishing between
  
  Internet addresses and command sequences, (2) distinguishing between dates of publication and dates of user access,
  
  (3) distinguishing between addresses of publication and addresses for retrieval, and (4) providing for the "openness"
  
  of many Internet pathways to the same (authentic) source. After examining each of the four problem areas, we
  
  recommend additions and emendations to Walker's models that help eliminate ambiguities. Each of our
  
  recommendations improves the usefulness and clarity of individual models. Finally, in "Citing the Sites: MLA-Style
  
  Guidelines and Models for Documenting Internet Sources," we provide a style sheet for teachers, students,
  
  researchers, and scholars whose citation standards are based on MLA-style documentation principles and models.
  
  "Citing the Sites" may be distributed as a self-contained guideline providing checklists and models for all current
  
  instances of Internet citation.
  
  
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