Kathy Larsen's Homepage

"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.

  • Office - Ames 223
  • Telephone - 202 242 5090
  • E-mail - klarsen@gwu.edu
    Journal of Fandom Studies
    Call for Papers - Journal of Fandom Studies
    Geeks, Fanboys and Stalker Chicks
    Celebrity, Fame and Fandom
    Call for Papers for the Popular Culture Association National Conference in Boston, MA - April 11-14, 2012
    PCA/ACA National Conference Homepage
    Click here for my CV and Bio

    Research and Writing Resources

    SEARCH ENGINES
  • Google. Obviously
  • Google Scholar - less 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

  • Zotero - a powerful organizational tool, this allows you to arrange and annotate your sources in addition to generating citations and bibliographies in a wide range of formats. Zotero is more flexible that some other tools like it. It's also free, though it only works with Firefox.
  • Refworks - like Zotero, Refworks allows you to organize and annotate sources. The service is free to GW students via the link above.
  • del.ici.ous - use this to organize your online research. It allows you to bookmark and arrange websites into folders for easy retrival.
  • Babelfish Translator - translate from and to English from a number of languages.

    NEWS

  • The New York Times
  • New York Times Archive - Articles from 1851-1980 in PDF format. Before 1922 the articles are free.
  • Washington Post
  • Washington Post Archives - Articles from 1977 to the present.
  • 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.
  • Fox News
  • CNN News

    REFERENCE - BASIC AND OTHERWISE

  • Direct link to Gelman and Aladin.
  • Gelman Search
  • 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 Thesaurus and another and for comparison's sake another from 1911.
  • 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.
  • The Internet Archive. Moving images, texts, audio and webpages - this a an amazing storehouse of information.
  • 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.
  • Better yet - try Zotero. It allows you to organize your materials, grabs bibliographic information from webpages for you, and formats both in-text and end of text citations. It's free to download.
  • Refworks is available to GW Students through the Gelman Library homepage. It also allows you to organize your materials, grabs bibliographic information from webpages for you, and formats both in-text and end of text citations.
  • 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 Studio 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. The website will be undergoing some big changes in the coming weeks - check back often to see what we're up to!


    Baaaaa! Last Updated: August 22, 2011