This page here is dedicated to lettting you know about citing your paper and vetting a reliable website. First vetting a reliable website. You want to look for these five things: accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency and coverage. First, Accuracy or who wrote it. You want to see if an author wants to take credit for their work. Also, you want to see if the author is qualified for article, paper ext. For example do you want a fifth grader be the main source for your paper on the periodic table and how it is set up? Secondly, Authority or who published it? this is about the same as accuracy in which you want to see who published it, the credentials of the author, and the domain name like a .com, .edu, .net ext. Next, Objectivity of that website. What goals does your website have? Is it trying to seel you something or advancing your knowledge about a topic. Next, is currency. How long ago was the website updated and does it obtain up to date links? Finally, Coverage. This can be described as does it need special software to look at the website or do you need to pay to visit it? This is all you need to look for in seeing if it is a reliable website.
Next, citing the website. With the help of the picture below and https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ (purdue owl) I will go thorugh the steps of citing a source online. First the author of the article Lastname, First then the title of the article in quotation marks. Next, The website title in italics. (this doesn't have to be the whole URL just the name and .com or .net. Next is the web sponsors, like who is the publisher, and last updated date. The medium for this instant is Web. Finally the date you accessed it.
Next, citing the website. With the help of the picture below and https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ (purdue owl) I will go thorugh the steps of citing a source online. First the author of the article Lastname, First then the title of the article in quotation marks. Next, The website title in italics. (this doesn't have to be the whole URL just the name and .com or .net. Next is the web sponsors, like who is the publisher, and last updated date. The medium for this instant is Web. Finally the date you accessed it.