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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.
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.