AlcottWeb.com: Notes for Students & Teachers

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Message for Students
Message for Teachers

Students

Does your teacher want citations for your LMA paper? Of course she/he does. And he/she probably wants you to cite this Web page too.

Janice Walker is one of the leading voices on electronic citation. She has an excellent page on MLA-style citation of online electronic resources at http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/mla.html   . (If you need some other style, please refer to http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/journalism/cite.html for a meta-index of citation style guides.)

Ms. Walker suggests when citing online sources you use this structure (this is taken from the page cited above):

The author's name
The full title of the work in quotation marks
The title of the complete work if applicable in italics
The document date if known and if different from the date accessed
The full http address
The date of visit

Let's look at how that applies to this site. Say you wanted to cite the AlcottWeb FAQ. Here's the information you would need:

The author's name: Tara Calishain (That's me. Hi.)
The full title of the work in quotation marks: "AlcottWeb"
The title of the complete work in italics: AlcottWeb.com
The document date if known: You can find the last document dates on the site map, or at the bottom of most index pages.
The full http address: http://www.alcottweb.com/reference/faq.html
Date of visit: Whatever the date of your visit was.

Remember, please cite my site only when you're directly referring to one of my pages. If you have gone to another page (for example, one of the book reviews in the Atlantic Monthly), please cite them instead. I am not responsible for developing or maintaining offsite content.

Who Am I? -- I am a fairly uninteresting writer. I am not a scholar, professor, or academic of any sort.

Why Should You Believe Everything Written on this Site? -- You shouldn't. Skepticism is a very healthy habit when searching the Web. The news articles reproduced on this site should be available via computerized archive at your local library. Many of the other facts presented within this Web site are available within the following three books. I encourage you to read them.

1. Stern, Madeleine B. Louisa May Alcott: A Biography. New York: Random House, 1996.

2. Dapper, Julie. The Alcotts and Orchard House. Concord: The Louisa May Alcott Memorial
Association, 1993.

3. Cheney, Ednah D. Louisa May Alcott: Life, Letters, and Journals. New York: Random House, 1995.

Teachers

I'm very interested in learning if any homeschooling parents use this resource, and if I can provide anything like work sheets, fun quizzes, etc. to help them in their work.

I've made one crossword puzzle -- http://www.alcottweb.com/quizzes/puzzleone.html . I need feedback! Was it too easy, too difficult? What else would you like to see? 

English professors, you are more than welcome to link to this site. However, I would appreciate it if you would notify me of the link, especially if you link to somewhere other than the front page.

This site is unaffiliated with Orchard House or any other official LMA  organization. It's just a fan site. The official site is   http://www.louisamayalcott.org .