EngLit

Teacher · Administrator Data inscrierii: 26/Mar/2008 Mesaje: 471

Even if this is just a forum and not an academic paper, the same rules apply when it comes to citing your sources. If you give a passage you have taken from a website, you should use quotation marks (inverted commas) and provide a link to that online source.

Failure to do so may result in your being banned from the forum for a definite period of time.

This explains how to insert a link.

What NOT to do:
- Do not just copy the link onto the forum page! Some links are very very long (think of those pesky links to GoogleBooks!) and, if you just copy them as such onto the forum, they will force the forum lines to widen beyond the right edge of your screen, which will make reading very difficult (as you will have to scroll horizontally for every line of the text, in order to reach the text that lies beyond the right edge of your screen).

What to do:

1. Go to the source page and copy (CTRL-C) its web address from the title line. Let’s suppose your page is entitled Ecocriticism: environment, emotions and education and it is located at
https://theconversation.com/ecocriticism-environment-emotions-and-education-13989.
You copy (CTRL-C) that address.

2. Go to the forum page, but do NOT paste that link right away. Instead, write a word, or a few words that you want to be the clickable word to take you to the source. You may write the name of the author your quoted, or the shortened title of that page. Or you may just write something like (Source HERE). I will continue my example with Source HERE.

3. Select the word that you want to make into a clickable link. In this case it is the word HERE.

4. On top of your editing window there is a line of tags (like B, I, U, quote...) used for the simple formatting the text. Click on the last one, marked URL. You will see that the word HERE in your text is now "surrounded" by two tags between square brackets, like this:

{url}HERE{/url}

(in the example above, I replaced the square brackets with curly brackets, because square brackets, being a part of the BBC forum syntax, cannot be seen in the final page)

Now, place your cursor at the end of the opening tag, but before the closing bracket, and type there an equal sign, like this:

{url=}HERE{/url}

5. Then, immediately after that equal sign, paste the link you had copied, by hitting CTRL-V:

{url=https://theconversation.com/ecocriticism-environment-emotions-and-education-13989}HERE{/url}

6. Once you have finished editing your post and hit TRIMITE, you will see the page with the word HERE acting like a link to the source:

"...John Parham describes Dickens’ writing as “social ecology”; charting, through realism, the systematic destruction of the normal world." (Source [url=https://theconversation.com/ecocriticism-environment-emotions-and-education-13989]HERE[/url])
Try it out: now the work HERE has a clickable link that takes you to the page you have just cited!

NOTE: The syntax of the URL tag is briefly explained in a line of advice (sfat) that appears on top of your editing window at the clipă you place your mose over the tag URL, or after you inserted it. Two options are given. You follow the second one (the one on the right).