One of the major problems with the internet is that anyone can put
     information on it and consequently everyone does.  Students especially
     are relying more and more on internet information without any form of
     judgement as to whether the information is valid or not.  This poses a
     whole new set of problems for those marking essays etc.  If
     information cited can only be found by doing complicated searches,
     then it shouldn't be used in the first place.  If your only form of
     research occurs via the internet, then you should look at your
     research skills.  There are already some very fat appendices, so what!

     Susan Meadows


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Subject: Re: Citing Websites in bibliographies
Author:  Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> at internet
Date:    16/5/97 3:05 PM


Susan Meadows wrote:  " ... if I was using material from the internet in an
article or essay, I would be more inclined to cite it as an appendix and
provide the material with the article/essay.  That way, the reader can
access it readily."

I feel there is a problem with this solution.  In the not-so-distant future,
more of our citations are likely to come from the web or some other internet
incarnation.  Also, some people write research about information that all
comes from various parts of the web.  Putting the cited material in an
appendix could make for an extremely fat appendix!

Barbara Palmer