These free hour-long workshops are designed to provide graduate students with a solid foundation for a successful academic experience.
Spring 2019 Classes
The Library and Your Research: Graduate Workshop Series
Attend the class virtually via Zoom at https://ksu.zoom.us/j/979866725.
Monday, February 4 at 1:30 pm | 1053 College of Business Administration
Starting Your Literature Review in Social Sciences and Education - 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 social sciences and education databases, however, the concepts will be applicable to all disciplines.
Monday, February 11 at 1:30 pm | 1053 College of Business Administration
Managing Citations and References - 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 citation manager tool and will introduce several different tools (possibilities include Zotero and Mendeley). Participants will set up an account and learn some of the common steps to organize citations and create bibliographies.
Computers will be provided but participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops to get set up on their computer.
Monday, February 25 at 1:30 pm | 1053 College of Business Administration
Retaining Rights to Promote Your Research - 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.
Monday, March 4 at 1:30 pm | 1053 College of Business Administration
Discover-Use-Manage: An Overview of Data and its Lifecycle - We all have data, we all need data – whether its text, digital photos, or spreadsheets full of numbers. Learn how to identify, access, evaluate, and use data.
Monday, March 18 at 1:30 pm | 1053 College of Business Administration
Starting Your Literature Review in the Sciences - 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 PubMed, Web of Science, and other science databases, however, the concepts will be applicable to all disciplines.
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Monday, March 25 at 1:30 pm | 1053 College of Business Administration
Managing Citations and References - 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 citation manager tool and will introduce several different tools (possibilities include Zotero and Mendeley). Participants will set up an account and learn some of the common steps to organize citations and create bibliographies.
Computers will be provided but participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops to get set up on their computer.
Monday, April 1 at 1:30 pm | 1053 College of Business Administration
Getting A Head Start on Using the ETDR Writing Template – This workshop will help you get started using the ETDR Template for your electronic thesis, dissertation, or report, which meets the Graduate School's formatting requirements.
Use of Word special features and some citation management and copyright will be covered. Don't wait until the last minute to learn the ropes on using the template documenting all your hard work.
