I believe that using an online citation maker to create citations is a skill students need to have for college. They need to learn that just because they use an online tool, that doesn't make the citation correct. They need to go back to the original source and look for what's missing and double-check what the citation-maker found. If they only use Perdue Owl, then when they are told to use a service like RefWorks in college, they may end up submitting incorrect citations.

Tracy Earnshaw

Coginchaug Regional High School

Durham, CT

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Dave StGermain <dstgermain@milforded.org> wrote:

Hi Dawn -

You might have luck asking the teacher to first consider the purpose of citation. According to Wikipedia this includes attributing work to the actual source and allowing readers to determine the whether or not the works cited help to support claims made by the author (Wikipedia contributors. "Citation." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 19 Dec. 2015. Web. 6 Jan. 2016.).

We want students to be able to competently cite their sources when they are out in the real world and we should want them to be able to do it using any tool available to them. Locking students into using one tool could serve to stop them from properly citing in the future. If Purdue Owl happens to go the way of EasyBib, students should be able to locate and use another tool that will help them easily and competently credit their sources.

Citation should be easy and enhance all of our work - not get in the way of it.

Hope that this helps...

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David St.Germain
Supervisor for Media Services and Instructional Technology
Milford Public Schools
70 West River Street
Milford, CT 06460
(203)783-3412

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