1) Go to any website from the list below.
2) Pick any one fact from that website.
3) Open a new document in Microsoft Word and type your name.
4) Write the fact into your word document, in your own words.
5) Write a parenthetical citation at the end of the sentence.
6) Create a "Works Cited:" list after your sentence.
7) Enter the website you used into your Works Cited list. Use correct MLA format as shown here:
Author's name, last name first. "Title of the website in quotation marks." Publisher. Date you accessed it in 2 Dec. 2009 format.
Here's my example. I visit the website of the Glen Canyon Institute. There it says:
Due to its high desert location and huge surface area, Lake Powell loses an average of 860,000 AF of water annually to evaporation and bank seepage. Glen Canyon Dam is unnecessary and counterproductive to the water storage and delivery purposes for which it was built.
So I open a word document and type this:
When you store water in a reservoir, some of it evaporates or seeps into the ground. Every year Lake Powell loses 860,000 acre-feet of water! (Glen Canyon Institute)
Then my works cited entry would look like this:
Works Cited:
Glen Canyon Institute. "Water Supply and Lake Powell." Glen Canyon Institute. 1 Dec. 2009
Now you do the same with one of these websites:
1. The history of boilerplate, the world's oldest robot.
2. If you love dogs, you'll send your dog to dog island.
3. New genetic techniques make it possible for a man to become pregnant.
4. Now parents can choose their kid's DNA.
5. Learn about the dangers of dihydrous monoxide, an incredibly common chemical.
6. This might be the strangest addiction of all time, but this website documents how people become addicted to lip balm.
7. If you like weird animals, the Pacific Tree Octopus is one of the weirdest.
8. The most beautiful money in the world is from Antartica.
9. If you always thought Minnesota was cold, me too. But the town of Mankato is different!
10. You kids are too young to remember when Kresky was the hottest show on television.
