Exercise 1: A Web Resource
For this exercise, imagine you wanted to cite the first paragraph of this article from the Salon website which you read on October the 6th, 2012. We've copied the web address into the box below to save you having to type it out. Do be careful though not to allow extraneous blank spaces to enter your answer, as that can confuse the script which assesses your footnote
Correct footnote:
Your footnote above should look like this:Laura Miller, 'Majoring in Potterology', *Salon* (25 May 2012) <http://www.salon.com/2012/05/25/majoring_in_potterology/> [accessed 16 October 2012] (para. 1).In your own work, the same footnote would look like this:
Laura Miller, 'Majoring in Potterology', Salon (25 May 2012) <http://www.salon.com/2012/05/25/majoring_in_potterology/> [accessed 16 October 2012] (para. 1).
Comments:
This is a well-structured website which provides all the information you need to know at the top of the article.
Citing the first paragraph of an internet resource is easy. You may, however, find yourself having to contend with a lengthy text with no obvious subdivisions and with more paragraphs than you can comfortably count. In that case it would be acceptable to leave out the passage location.
Salon is sometimes referred to as Salon.com and it would have been acceptable to cite this article as followed:
Laura Miller, 'Majoring in Potterology', Salon.com (25 May 2012) <http://www.salon.com/2012/05/25/majoring_in_potterology/> [accessed 16 October 2012] (para. 1).
