kurt-anderson.com

I introduced this (amazing) webpage to Kurt the other day, and suggested he write about it in this here blag, and then last night around midnight, as I attempted and failed and attempted and failed to get comfortable after totally housing two bowls of potato leek soup and a heaping pile of apple crisp (homemade, thankyouverymuch, and it was delicious), he suggested that I write about it and post it in his blag.

And here we are.

Remember writing papers in college, and how much of a drag every part of it was, and so how you’d try to make it more fun? I mean, I liked paper-writing more than anybody else I know, but still, aside from using multiple word documents for the thrill of pasting it all together, grossly manipulating the elipses-ridden quote, and writing the entire thing single-spaced and then double-spacing it at the end to make myself feel heroic and awesome (I’m not the only one, am I?), what can you do?

The answer is easy. Easybib.com, in fact. Let’s fact it—the research can be interesting, the writing can be clever, and honestly is there anything better than finding that completely perfect quote in the 11^th hour? No! But there’s also nothing worse than creating a bibliography. Until, of course, this fancy little website came into play.

My friend Beth introduced easybib.com to me in college, with the logic—and I quote— “share, share, that’s fair” (thank you, Miss Coleo). And it’s saved my butt on many a paper—including, but not limited to, several annotated bibliographies for my thesis. And it’s so (ready?) easy to use (hold for screencap). You select the source (book, journal, magazine, website…the list goes on), then fill in all of the necessary fields (title, author, page numbers, website, etc)—if you’re using a book, you can actually just put in the ISBN number and the site fills it in FOR you!—hit “next,” and bam! You have yourself the beginnings to a stellar works cited page. You even have the option of adding in annotations, which, believe you me, has made my last week of research for work about a thousand times easier.

So, there you have it! I know a few of Kurt’s readers are in their schooling phase (one or two [ain’t they cute??] might be on their way to TEACHING the schooling phase…), so I thought it might come in handy.

PS: yes, it is.