  We investigate the electroproduction of eta mesons below a center of momentum
energy of 1.6 GeV, with particular emphasis on the roles of the N*(1535) and
N*(1520) resonances. Using the effective Lagrangian approach, we show that the
transverse helicity amplitude of the N*(1535) can be extracted with good
accuracy from the new eta electroproduction data, under reasonable assumptions
for the strength of the longitudinal helicity amplitude. In addition, although
the differential cross section is found to to have a small sensitivity to the
N*(1520) resonance, it is shown that a recently completed double polarization
experiment is very sensitive to this resonance.
