Matt H. answered • 05/12/15
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Hi Ashleigh,
It would be the date that you found the information you ended up using. That way, if the information were to change after the fact, you'd be covered if anyone said,"that's not what it says now."
Good luck with your essay.
M
David W.
Another tutor answered a question last night and made a typo in his answer. I saw the post and pointed out the error so the student would not get the wrong information. While I was writing my post, the other tutor reread his Answer and corrected it (he can edit his post), but I can't edit or delete my comment. Now, readers wonder what I was complaining about because they don't know the time at which I read the post.
On the World Wide Web, information on web pages changes very frequently. It is probably not "if the information were to change," so Matt H. makes a very important point. The information may not be available in any other place than on that web site (such as in a certain edition of a book), but citing references is so much better than plagiarism.
05/12/15