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Documenting Electronic Sources   Your research for position Literature will belike include looking for online sources. If you muster potential sources online, you will probably convey that they vary widely in quality, in currency, and in reliability. You should limit yourself to precisely those sources that show evidence of carrying authority. Does the pose identify authors and provide their credentials? Does the website offer documentation so that readers base substantiate information? Does the site avoid seeming to offer political propaganda? Is it free of advertising, commercial or political? Is the site up-to-date? By asking such questions, you can avoid selecting sources which will undermine your own credibility.   Specifically, your research assignment for English 111 requires you (unless your instructor grants you exceptional permission) to limit yourself to online sources of two types 1. articles in online periodicals (journals and magazines actually publishe d on the World Wide Web), and             2. periodical articles available done electronic databases such as ProQuest.   The instructions below explain how you can find such sources and how you should include them in your list of Works Cited.   Articles in Online Periodicals   Suppose, for example, you atomic number 18 writing a paper on Shakespeares play The Taming of the Shrew. You might get muckle your online search by using Netscape to do an Internet search. (Using Netscape, you pull down the Directory menu and click on Internet Search to reach a search engine.) Then you would type in keywords such as these Petruchio, Taming, Shrew. Among the some(prenominal) potential sources your search produced, you would find the two listed below, one an article in a scholarly journal, the other an article in a magazine. some(prenominal) fit into category 1 above of the types of online sources you may use. Each is abandoned here in the MLA form you would use should you end up including it in your list of Works Cited.   Heaney, Peter F. Petruchios Horse Equine and Household distraction in The Taming of the Shrew. Early Modern Literary Studies 4.1 (1998) 12 pars. 3 Feb. 1999 <http//purl.oclc.org/emls/04-1/heanshak.html>. Kerrigan, William W. The baptismal font for Bardolatry Harold Bloom Rescues Shakespeare from the Critics. Lingua Franca Nov. 1998. 3 Feb. 1999 <http//sevenbridgespress.com/lf/9811/kerrigan.html>.   Full-Text Articles Available through Database In piece to locate sources fitting into category 2 above (periodical articles available through an electronic database), you would again begin with Netscape. By typing voyager.