Online Sources

Good Sources

These types of online source are generally good sources of information and support for your projects:

• Articles in scholarly or professional journals:

  Michael White, "Johannes Baader's Plasto-Dio-Dada-Drama: the Mysticism of the Mass Media" (also available in PDF)

• Articles by an expert on an institutional (reputable) website:

  Marjorie Perloff, "Dada without Duchamp / Duchamp without Dada: Avant-garde tradition and the Individual Talent"

• Interviews with experts on the subject (or insiders):

  Interview with John Cage by Paul Cummings

  Note also that part of what suggests the value of the Cage interview is that we find it stored on a good institutional website

• Primary sources (e.g., a historical document stored on a reliable website):

  Blindman, no. 2 (New York, May 1917)

  (Note the well-designed sitenav at the top of the Blindman page)

Generally a good source needs to use citations and have notes or a works cited section; it needs to let you know its sources.

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Not Good Sources for Citation

These types of online source may prove helpful as you begin to research a topic, suggesting directions for further research, but generally they are not good sources of information and support for your work, and you should not cite them or use them.

• A personal site on a subject: Dada Online
• An online encyclopedia entry: Wikepedia entry on Dada
• An online news story: "Dada on Display at the National Gallery of Art"

In what cases, however, might sources of these kinds be good sources?

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