Search engines
There are two main ways to find information on the Web.First, you can use a subject directory to follow an "outline" to the topic you want. This is especially useful when you want general information, or when you're trying to narrow down a topic. Good examples are:
When you know exactly what you're looking for, enter a word or phrase in one of these search engines, and it will retrieve Internet resources that contain that word or phrase. A few of the many available:
People
There are also special search engines to help you find e-mail and postal addresses and phone numbers.
Citing Web Sources
After you find information on the Web, it's important to know how to cite it in a bibliography. Here is a site that can tell you how and show you examples. "Humanities style" is MLA, "scientific style" is APA.
