Chapter 27. MLA Documentation

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MLA MODELS 27B-7 Online discussion postings
and blogs
36. ONLINE POSTING
Author Title Publication information (Posting Date. Forum Name.)
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Sebring95. “Re: 96 Tacoma.” Online posting. 3 Jan. 2003. Car Questions.
10 Aug. 2003 .
IN-TEXT NOTE: (Sebring95)
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Online access information
Cite a message in an online discussion—whether posted to a Web forum,
an electronic mailing list, or a Usenet newsgroup—by listing the author of
the posting, the subject line of the message (in quotation marks), the words
Online posting, the date the message was posted, and typical access information,
including the date you last viewed the message and its URL. Note that
some forms of online discussion have different kinds of URL addresses,
ones that don’t begin with http. See Models 37, 38
• Is the message a Web forum posting? Insert the name of the discussion
forum (neither underlined nor in quotation marks) before the date
of access. See Model 36
• Is the message from a blog? Blog items with obvious authors and titles for
daily entries can be cited without much difficulty, but many blog entries
won’t have conventional titles or pagination. In most cases, give the site
address for the blog or the URL for its archived material. See Model 39
• Is the message available in a discussion archive? Many online discussions
are archived and published in a fixed form. If available, refer to
the archive’s URL, rather than that of the original posting, keeping
other details the same. See Model 40