"D'ye laugh
Reader? Why e'en much
good may it do ye!" John Dunton
You can find me in the
University Writing Program
at George Washington
University. You can also usually find me anyplace where
coffee is free-flowing.
My Office Hours are:
Monday and Wednesday 12:30-1:30
And by appointment
My office is located in the Academic Center, Rome 561.
Telephone - 202 994-3491
E-mail - klarsen@gwu.edu
Click here for my CV and Bio
Research and Writing Resources
SEARCH ENGINES
Google. Obviously
AltaVista. Perhaps better for academic searches?
Dogpile .
Since all search engines are not created equal, this
metacrawler allows you to search several different search engines at one
time.
37.com. As the name implies, this is another
metacrawler. This one searches 37 other search engines.
RESEARCH TOOLS
del.ici.ous - use this to organize your online research. It allows you to bookmark and arrange websites into folders for easy retrival.
Direct link to Refworks - a service provided by Gelman that allows you to organize and save your research and then generate Works Cited/References within your papers.
NEWS
The New York Times
Washington
Post
The Los Angeles
Times
Link to most of the newspapers of Great Britain, including the Times of
London and The Guardian
BBC News
Newslink
Index
The Drudge
Report
The Onion - a
different kind of news source.
REFERENCE - BASIC AND OTHERWISE
Direct link to Gelman and Aladin.
OneLook Dictionaries
Searches over one hundred general and special subject dictionaries.
Your
Dictionary.com. One stop shopping for dictionaries and on-line
grammars for just about any language you can think of.
An
on-line translator in case the information you need is in a language you
don't read.
The Literary Encyclopedia.
Still under construction, but this is a scholarly, vetted, and thorough
undertaking. Well worth a look.
Library of
Congress
Voice of the
Shuttle. I cannot say enough good things about this site. It
spans the length and breadth of Humanities. If you are doing research
you cannot afford not to check out this site.
Digital Archive of Letters, Manuscripts, and Ephemera. This
collection spans five centures and can be searched either by the usual
author/keyword route or by category (among them: arts, daily life,
science, travel, war and politics). Great place if you are looking for
primary source material.
Encyclopedia Mythica
The Internet
Classics Archive
The Bible Gateway. In
case you need citation information, a searchable version.
The Koran. Again, a
searchable version.
The Works of
the Bard. Complete works and a full text search engine.
Bartlett's Familiar
Quotations. An on-line searchable version of the old standard.
E-TEXTS GALORE!!!!!!
Project Gutenberg
Home
Page.
An ever expanding storehouse of on-line texts. Need a copy of the
Declaration of Independence or The Constitution? This is the place.
Columbia's
Bartleby Project. Need a quick reference at 3:00 AM?? Gelman shut
tight??
Never fear. Between Bartleby and Gutenberg you might well find it.
The University
of Virginia's Electronic Text Center and much much more!!
An Online Library of
Literature. Redundant title, but it fills in gaps in the previous
collections.
And if it's French literature
you want, c'est un bon lieu pour vous! The University of Chicago's ARTFL
project.
FORMAT, USAGE, AND GRAMMAR SITES
EasyBib - will create bibliographies for you in MLA and APA formats.
And excellent source on how to format your paper in accordance with
MLA rules.
A site to help you with APA format.
A list of Grammar Sites from
Yahoo to get started.
Common
Errors in English. A straightforward, alphabetized list of do's and
don'ts.
Grammar and Style Notes put together by Jack Lynch at Rutgers.
This guy is great!
Grammar Bytes. This one is
interactive!
On-line, full-text version of
Strunk and White's still handy little volume.
The Writing Center at GW.
In addition to information about the center itself, the Resources section
includes information and help with key aspects of pre-writing and writing
as well as a link to the Writing Center at the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill which offers even more resources.
Get in touch with Kathy
Baaaaa!
Last Updated:
August 29, 2008