Patricia George's Favorite Sites


UDC: This is the site for the college.
The Washington Library Research Consortium:This is a library consortium that is available for college students at any of the colleges in the consortium.What I have found to be most helpful is ABI/Inform, and EBO, which is the Encyclopedia Brittanica Online.
Yahoo!: This is a search engine that will help you find various educational sites
http://www.britannica.com/: This is an encyclopedia site that can connect you to many different internet sites.
Looksmart.com: This is an e-mail site; it is also a search engine for other sites.
Lycos: This is another search engine that can be used to find literary sites.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu: This is a very good website, with a lot of exercises to do, as well as a lot of ideas about writing a paper.
http://archetype.webjump.com/: This site connects you to "archetypal literature," such as Romeo and Juliet, Don Juan, Faust, Hamlet, King Arthur, and others. It can also connect you to musical selections to go along with these sites.
http://www.sparknotes.com/: This is a site made up by Harvard students, and containing many different books that are read in college, including Beowulf, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and many of Shakespeare's plays.
http://www.AskJeeves.com: This is a general information site that can be used to gain general information on a number of topics
http://www.m-w.com/ : This is the Merriam Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus site that can be used to get defirnitions and synonyms of words