INTERNET SOURCES/TOOLWORKS

[ANGELA M GULICK <AFAMG@acad2.alaska.edu>]

Hi everyone.  I'm glad to see that so many people are still active on the list. 
I figured that WCENTER would just go into hibernation because of the holidays.

Anyway, I have a question about something that happened to a friend (no,
really, it was a friend.  I mean it!) 

She had a student turn in a research paper that was barely documented.  The
citations were vague, not in MLA style, and there were no page numbers and so
on.  When my colleague spoke to the student and gave the student a chance to go
back and fill in the gaps, the student said that she had used an Internet
source called Toolworks to do her research.  This student sang the praises of
this resource, but she claimed that the sources used *in* Toolworks were
incomplete (no page numbers), and thus, the student couldn't go back and revise
the essay.

This has led to many questions on the part of our department.  We realize (or
are beginning to do so) the extreme limits of our understanding of the Internet
and are getting that creepy, mentally itchy feeling that this might be happening
more than we care to admit.

Have any of your schools handled, in a systematic way, how to cite sources
found on the Internet?  Is anyone familiar with Toolworks, enough to guide one
of us to it so we can see what is and is not contained.  

This whole situation just smells fishy to me (those poor fish--always gettin' a
bad rap), and I feel very much in the dark.  I think that there are other
schools out there just "getting in" to the Internet game, so please send
messages to the list if you think they will benefit.

Again, thanks for any insights you can provide, and seasons greetings.