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Who knows how to properly cite internet sources using MLA?

 
 
Reply Mon 5 Apr, 2004 03:25 am
What should you do when you want to use information from a site without an author?

For instance, say I want to use a quote from this site:

<http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/project/oxq/vaxsrc/oxq/07.2>

Suppose this is my essay:

Petrarch writes that we should trample beneath our feet appetites which spring from earthly impulses. In his sermon entitled "De Ascencione," St. Augustine makes a similar statement: "We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot" (http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/project/oxq/vaxsrc/oxq/07.2).

That's my problem! Am I really supposed to include the entire URL in parentheses? There is no author so I can't list a name. I've thought about shortening it to (www.mit.edu), but that doesn't seem right. I could probably find other sites with the same information and an author, but since I've encountered this problem several other times before, I'd appreciate somebody telling me what I should do.
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JoanneDorel
 
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Reply Mon 5 Apr, 2004 06:26 pm
Follow this link: Style Sheet For On Line Citations - UCB

Ane welcome to A2k
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Immanuel
 
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Reply Tue 6 Apr, 2004 03:42 am
Exactly what I was looking for.
Thank you, JD. That problem was bothering me for quite some time.
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JoanneDorel
 
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Reply Tue 6 Apr, 2004 04:14 am
You are very welcome.
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