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1. What were your Search term(s)? What Search Tools did you use? My search term was MLA citation. I used Yahoo, Google, and Dogpile. 2. How many hits did you get from each search tool? 3. List the top five sites from each search tool. Yahoo- www.Easybib.com, Owl Purdue, Citation Machine, and http://www.umuc.edu/library/libhow/mla_examples.c fm Google- www.grammarly.com www.Citationmachine.com https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/ 747/08/ www.easybib.com Yahoo 18, 100,100 hits Google About 29,000,000 results Dogpile Did not show the number.

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Use different search tools to explore one topic.

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1. What were your Search term(s)? What Search Tools did you use?

My search term was MLA citation. I used Yahoo, Google, and Dogpile.

2. How many hits did you get from each search tool?

3. List the top five sites from each search tool.

Yahoo-

www.Easybib.com, Owl Purdue, Citation Machine, and http://www.umuc.edu/library/libhow/mla_examples.cfm

Google-

www.grammarly.com

www.Citationmachine.com

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/

www.easybib.com

www.bibme.org

Dogpile-

www.easybib.com

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/

www.citationmachine.net

Yahoo 18, 100,100 hitsGoogle About 29,000,000 results

Dogpile Did not show the number.

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http://www.umuc.edu/library/libhow/mla_examples.cfm

https://www.library.cornell.edu/research/citation/mla

4. Are they the same sites? Some of them are the same sites.5. Are they in the same order? No, they are not in the same

order.6. What do you attribute these finding to? I attribute these

findings to popularity and sites most frequently used.