hate the damn Irish.

[edhelur]

Okay, so I turned in the rough draft to a report which analyzes the Irish language to my TA a few weeks ago. It was just the rough draft, so he probably scanned it over quickly, approved it, and sent me an e-mail back saying "I like that you're using multiple sources

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[moonystone]

Ah yes, the joys of quoting *g*
Do ask your TA those questions because quoting rules are slightly different from teacher to teacher and very much different in different areas of study. To torture students, I s'pose.

Anyway, as far as I'm informed, when quoting a web page, you have to put the URL, the name of the article (possibly with author) and the date and time of your last access to that site in the quote thingy. Because web pages tend to be changed...
Seeing as your doing something linguistic and etymological, I'd quote even the dictionaries. But then I've been taught quoting by uber-anal Historians who even quote encyclopaedias *shrugs*
The MLA should have a homepage where they tell you the best ways to quote, they were the ones we always turned to when books etc. turned out too weird.

Hope that helped a little. Good luck!

[edhelur]

ahhh, I meant more 'in paper citing'. Of course I'll cite the full source at the end of the paper -- you know, as MLA says to do it. I'm just not sure about how to insert it easily into the paper at the end of the referential sentence. So "blah blah blah (Wright 1980 : page)" is easier/more 'graceful', as it were, than "blahdeblah (Copulating with the Copula article at Irish Gaelic Translator webpage)". You know?

ah well, I'll e-mail my TA and ask if he possibly has any hours free that aren't 5-6 PM next Thursday (so I can work more, sooner, and not have to hang around on campus for 4 hours just to see him).

grargh. This thing hurts.

[moonystone]

Ah, ok. I usually cite in footnotes because it doesn't disrupt the flow of the text as much. As a rule, I cite the full work when mentioning it for the first time and then use a short form, something like Author xy, p. yz. Maybe even a shortened version of the work title if there are more by one author. I'm not sure, though, if you have to do that full citation thing for your kind of citation... sorry!

Good luck with your TA! And the paper, of course!