| The columnist Dave Barry seems to understand | | | | where to look and how to evaluate websites. |
| the internet (me too). He has said that "if you're | | | | Some people have taken word-processed |
| willing to be patient, you'll find that you can utilize | | | | documents and simply uploaded them to the |
| the vast resources of the web to waste time in | | | | internet; others have converted their files to |
| ways that you never before dreamed possible" | | | | portable document format (the so called PDF |
| (Barry, n.d.) Although people do spend a lot of | | | | files). Manuscripts placed on the internet through |
| time accessing websites, not all the time they | | | | either of these approaches are likely to take the |
| spend on the internet is wasted. | | | | traditional APA-style format. But publishing in |
| The internet is emerging as a legitimate vehicle | | | | standard internet format, using hypertext markup |
| for disseminating information in the sciences. The | | | | language(HTML), has some advantages that you |
| number of internet journals is increasing, and | | | | don't see with either word-processed or PDF files. |
| electronic books (e-books) have started appearing | | | | Undoubtedly, the most important feature of |
| regularly. In addition, psychologists have begun | | | | internet publishing is that it allows quick |
| posting their own writing to the internet. | | | | dissemination of your work to the world-wide |
| When psychologists published their work on the | | | | audience. Another feature of internet publishing |
| internet, it often undergoes peer review, in which | | | | involves the use of hyperlinks.Internet users take |
| experts have determined that the work is of high | | | | it for granted that you can click on a link and go |
| quality. Self published work is of unknown quality, | | | | to a site that offers information related to a topic. |
| but you can find reliable information if you know | | | | |