These free hour-long workshops are designed to provide graduate students with a solid foundation for a successful academic experience.
Fall 2018 Classes
The Library and Your Research: Graduate Workshop Series
Zoom link for all sessions: https://ksu.zoom.us/j/7855322835
Monday, September 10 at 10:30 am | 3114 College of Business
Starting Your Literature Review - Are you preparing a literature review for a paper, article, thesis, or dissertation? This workshop will help you! Learn why a literature review is important, how to use K-State Libraries’ databases to select articles, how to evaluate the articles, and how to organize the review. For this session, article searching will be demonstrated using education and social sciences databases, but the concepts will be applicable to all disciplines. Download the class powerpoint | Watch the video.
Monday, September 17 at 10:30 am | 3114 College of Business
Managing Citations and References with RefWorks - Citations and references, while essential to the research and publishing, can also consume a lot of your valuable time storing, organizing, and formatting them. This hands-on workshop introduces the essentials of the citation manager RefWorks. Participants will set up a RefWorks account; import, organize, edit citations, plus insert citations directly into a Word document, create bibliographies, and more. Computers will be provided but participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops to set up Write N Cite with the Word program on their computer. Download the class powerpoint | Watch the video
Monday, September 24 at 10:30 am | 3114 College of Business
Discover-Use-Manage: An Overview of Data and Its Lifecycle - We all have data, we all need data – whether it's text, digital photos, or spreadsheets full of numbers. Learn how to identify, access, evaluate, and use data. Download the class powerpoint | Watch the video
Monday, October 1 at 10:30 am | 3114 College of Business
Copyright & Your ETDR: What You Need to Know - Writing and publishing your scholarly work can be an exciting undertaking but also a daunting task. This workshop will cover how to understand publisher copyright contracts, your rights as an author, and how to potentially retain more of your rights when you decide to publish. Working on a thesis, dissertation, or report? Learn how to reuse your own work in your ETDR or publications and how to legally and ethically reuse others’ works, all while getting a crash course in copyright. Download the class powerpoint | Watch the video
Monday, October 8 at 10:30 am | 3114 College of Business
Using a Writing Template: Save Time and Effort on Your Thesis/Dissertation - If you will be writing a thesis, dissertation, or report, this workshop is for you! Using the ETDR template when you start writing will save large amounts of time and effort. This workshop covers how to use the template, special features in Word, and related citation management and copyright questions.
Monday, October 15 at 10:30 am | 3114 College of Business
REPEAT: Starting Your Literature Review - Are you preparing a literature review for a paper, article, thesis, or dissertation? This workshop will help you! Learn why a literature review is important, how to use K-State Libraries’ databases to select articles, how to evaluate the articles, and how to organize the review. For this session, article searching will be demonstrated using Web of Science and PubMed, but the concepts will be applicable to all disciplines.
Monday, October 22 at 10:30 | 3114 College of Business
Troubleshooting References and Citation Management with RefWorks - In the second part of our series on RefWorks, participants will take a deeper dive into citation management through a demonstration of the software’s advanced features. Instructions will also make time to work through your RefWorks questions and issues and offer troubleshooting assistance. Computers will be provided but participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops, especially if they need assistance troubleshooting RefWorks tools such as Write-N-Cite.
