Re: [LM_NET] Tiny URL and Citations

[Robert Eiffert <beiffert@COMCAST.NET>]

MLA Handbook (5.9.1) says "...give instead the URL of the site's search page...".

We could also discuss why notecards are being used, or at least why student has to 
transcribe URL onto them.  That tinyurl with one
tiny error would send the student or the reader way off in trying to revisit the 
page.

Wouldn't copy/pasting URL, other bib data, and relevant quotes into a word 
processor doc be faster and more accurate? And pretty
similar to photocopying page, writing bib info on back, and highlighting data.


Robert Eiffert, Librarian
Pacific Middle School, Vancouver WA
Pac.egreen.wednet.edu/library
Beiffert at egreen wednet edu
beiffert.net

Steven Patnode wrote:

> Has anyone allowed students to change long URL's into tinyurl's
> to use in their citations?  From time to time they are faced with  endless
> URL's to write down on notecards and this would seem to be an  alternative
> for them to save time and frustration.  But is that technically
incorrect?

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