Useful References for Students

Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement - Excellent online resource from Dartmouth

Son of Citation Machine - Free citation generator for building bibliographies; can do MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian styles.

The Assignment Calculator - Handy resource from the University of Minnesota library. Input the date due and the date you'll start working on the paper, and the subject area of the assignment, and they'll map out a day by day plan for searching the catalog, the appropriate databases, and the web, using services at the library, visiting the writing lab, writing the paper, and compiling a reference list.

A composition instructor offers excellent advice about how to get a better grade. These strategies will work in every class, not just writing.

The Rules of Intellectual Etiquette - I don't always agree with Wendy McElroy, but this excerpt from her book, The Reasonable Woman, offers useful advice to remember in class discussions

Essential Bookmarks for Web Designers and Web Developers - Just what it sounds like.

Not the 13th Grade - More links and advice for college success, from a geography professor at Bridgewater State University

The Pauper - Career planning and financial advice for starving artists (or anyone else)

How Not To Lose A Job Before You Have It: Notes For Interns - Not all internships lead to jobs after graduation, but if you act like a jerk, they definitely won't

Four Ways to Use Wikipedia (Hint: Never cite it in an academic paper) - Unless, of course, you're writing an academic paper about Wikipedia

Professor Dutch's Top Ten Lines for Which You'll Receive No Sympathy - Don't expect sympathy from me, either.

How to Email a Professor - Just some helpful guidelines.

Cool Stuff

Needles and Sins - Tattoo Couturé

Women's eNews - I am featured as Journalist of the Month for November 2009.

k.i.s.s. of the panopticon - Dougie Bicket's comprehensive and very handy cultural theory site

Powell's Books - My favorite bookstore in the world

Standpoint - The Easterner interviewed me early this year. 

Edward Tufte's web site - The genius behind The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. He's just brilliant.

Kairos News - A weblog about rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy

he Chronicle of Higher Education - The national newspaper for higher education

Skating on Thin Ice: Why Tonya Harding Could Never Be America's Ice Princess - One of my early academic articles, available only through the generosity and magic that is the Wayback Machine

International No-Diet Day - One of my two favorite holidays. The other is Menstrual Monday.

Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric - a guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric

Guerilla Girls - re-inventing the "f" word (feminism)

MediaStudies.com -Media Studies portal: "The purpose of MediaStudies.com is to help advance research and education in media studies and critical thinking."

Professional Societies

National Communication Association

Society for Menstrual Cycle Research

NorthWest Communication Association