This workshop will cover: screening and reading articles efficiently, using organizational tools (research logs and tables, tags, annotated bibliographies) to summarize and surface connections between sources, and practicing a formula for writing your lit review.
This workshop will provide an overview of the library resources and services available to UMN graduate students. You’ll learn how to effectively find scholarly materials and how librarians and other library staff can assist you to succeed. Open to everyone but strongly recommended for first-year graduate students!
Learn how to use BrowZine, a tool to create your own virtual reading room of your favorite journals. You’ll also learn how to set up database and journal alerts to keep up on published scholarship in your field.
This session will show you how to make the right choice for your research. We will discuss how to identify potential journals and what factors to consider before you submit. We will also describe the peer review process and how journal quality is assessed.
This workshop will cover: screening and reading articles efficiently, using organizational tools (research logs and tables, tags, annotated bibliographies) to summarize and surface connections between sources, and practicing a formula for writing your lit review.
Meet with fellow learners on Zoom and learn how to use Zotero to create your own database of citations, PDFs, images, webpages, video and audio files and more. Zotero can then be used to create citations in a large number of citation styles which can be added to Google Docs, Microsoft Word and Libre Office.
You submitted your paper to the journal of your choice. You know you did high quality research and felt good about your paper. Until you get peer review comments that make you question whether you should even be in your field at all. It’s okay! This workshop will teach you how to respond to peer reviewer comments and make your paper even stronger before you resubmit it. We will also cover how you can be a good peer reviewer of other researchers’ work.
Meet with fellow learners on Zoom and learn how to use Zotero to create your...
Learn about using the citation management software, EndNote, to import citations, customize your account, and...
Learn about the ways to do research on campus (e.g. job, volunteer, for course credit, UROP, etc.), how to get started, finding potential faculty mentors, exploring past student projects, and more.
Meet with fellow learners on Zoom and learn how to use Zotero to create your...
Meet with fellow learners on Zoom and learn how to use Zotero to create your...
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