And a freezing good morning all! (It's several degrees below zero here
in southwestern New York!) How do you have your students cite those
L-O-N-G URLs? The chair of our English Department just forwarded the
following information to me, asking if we should start having our high
school students use this practice:
Long URLs : URLs that won't fit on one line of your Works Cited list
should be broken at slashes, when possible.
Some Web sites have unusually long URLs that would be virtually
impossible to retype; others use frames, so the URL appears the same for
each page. To address this problem, either refer to a site's search URL,
or provide the path to the resource from an entry page with an easier
URL. Begin the path with the word Path followed by a colon, followed by
the name of each link, separated by a semicolon. For example, the
Amazon.com URL for customer privacy and security information is
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/551434/104-0801289-622550
2>, so we'd need to simplify the citation:
Am Amazon.com. "Privacy and Security." 22 May 2006
<http://www.amazon.com/>. Path: Help; Privacy & Security.
We would be interested to get any feedback on this practice. Thanks!
Barb
Barbara Kane
High School Library Media Specialist
Southwestern Central School
Jamestown, NY
bkane@swms.wnyric,org
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