: "Overall Website" In Citing a Website (MLA) I am writing a research paper using MLA style. One of my sources is a book via Google Books. According to the MLA style, part of citing this online

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Citing google books or google in general as your source is a lame way out of giving real credit where it is due. It pretty much negates the point of citing to begin with. For papers, why not just cite google and say everything I found was here? Because that's not the POINT of citing nor it is what google is used for. It would be no different than say... Citing a library building, or citing Barnes N Noble. There you can "read books, download them, and cite them." The whole point of citing is to give credit for the body of work you are using. Saying where you found it is not the same as giving credit to the author.

Here is another way of looking at it... you have a tool you are using to build something say a hammer... but when a person asks you what this tool is, you say oh, it's a Home Depot. They would look at you funny and then you clarify that it is where you GOT it. It still doesn't tell the person what it is though and that is the whole point of citing.

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