Helpful Websites
- The Wars for VietnamVassar College
- PTSD - A Growing EpidemicFrom The National Institutes of Health
- Findings from the National Vietnam Veterans' Readjustment StudyFrom the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- The Wrong War: Why We Lost in VietnamChapter One of the book.
New York Times
Citing a Page of a Website
The following is information on how to cite a page from a website that was found online (CIA World Factbook, BBC Country Profiles, etc.). This information is taken from Owl at Purdue:
A Page on a Web Site
For an individual page on a Web site, list the author or alias if known, followed by the information covered above for entire Web sites. Remember to use n.p. if no publisher name is available and n.d. if no publishing date is given.
"How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow. Demand Media, n.d. Web. 24 Feb. 2009.
Questions to ask about any Information
Questions to ask about ANY information:
- Currency: How recent is the information, and when was it last updated?
- Organization: Is it easy to find the information you need?
- Accuracy: How reliable is the information, and are the facts accurate?
- Bibliography: How easy is the work to cite in a bibliography? Does it give you the author, title, publisher, and date?
- Unfamiliar Topics: How useful is it when you don’t know where to start?
- Languages: How easily can the work provide languages other than English?
Any source, whether a library database or website, can have good information. It is necessary to think critically about all information that you read or view.
