Post 1 for a library project

Have you used EasyBib? No, it isn't what you stick under a baby's drool. EasyBib is a bit of software that helps a writer create parenthetical and Works Cited citations. But, hey, it is not easy because the premise is "garbage in, garbage out." According to Wikipedia, this saying, "Garbage in, Garbage out'," was the product of "George Fuechsel, an IBM 305 RAMAC technician/instructor in New York, [and was], soon contracted to the acronym "GIGO" (Wikipedia).

Word 7 also has a bibliography function that works similarly. Over the next few weeks, I will master this like my English 111 students needs to so that we can speak the same language.

The Works Cited entry for the "garbage" entry would look something like:
"Garbage In, Garbage Out." Wikipedia. 24 Mar 2010: n. pg. www.wikipedia.org. Web. 6 Apr 2010.

I'll check my Little, Brown Handbook and update on this in the next post.

Getting up to speed again

I've promised I will get active with this blog again, especially we have survived the most challenging winter in a long time and now have stormed into hot weather with no spring respite.

In a couple of days, I will tell you about an author I have discovered some 20+ years since he wrote the books.

Books. Wonderful things.

More soonest.