Introductory Panel
9:00-9:30 a.m. Graduate Student Lounge
Blast off with pearls of advice and encouragement from the Dean of GSO and graduate program directors and faculty.
A New Hope: SU Libraries’ spaces, services, and collections
9:35-10:20 a.m. Lab 162
SU Libraries offer a wide array of services and resources to graduate students.
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“Always Pass On What You Have Learned!”
10:20 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Lab 162
The session will introduce the essential elements of conducting and writing a literature review (LR). This session will cover:
Love at First Cite
11:25 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. GAC 260 C
In this interactive workshop, participants will learn about the resources the University Writing Center (UWC) offers specifically tailored to graduate students. Participants will learn how the UWC can work with writers at any stage of the writing process and at any stage of their graduate coursework. Participants will then split into two groups based on the documentation style used within their program—MLA or APA—for discussions about writing guides and citation styles.
“Patience You Must Have…!”
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Zotero (http://www.zotero.org/) is a free, powerful, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. Downloaded as a standalone, you can save to your Zotero library directly from your Firefox, Chrome, or Safari browser. Zotero integrates with word processors, like Microsoft Word and OpenOffice Writer, to easily generate in-text citations, footnotes, and bibliographies. SU has adopted Zotero as one of three citation management programs.
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EndNote is a reference management software from Clarivate Analytics that keeps all your references organized, searchable, and sharable in a personal library. It easily integrates with word-processors like Microsoft Word to create formatted citations and bibliographies or independent reference lists. You can download a trial for 30 days at https://endnote.com/downloads/30-day-trial/
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RefWorks RefWorks is a citation management tool that can help researchers cite sources in styles most commonly used at SU like APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, ACS, AMA, and thousands of others. With this tool, researchers can gather, organize, read, annotate, and cite their research sources. Additionally, RefWorks can be used as an online collaboration space that enables groups of researchers to work together from any location.
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“Bring You Wisdom, I will!”
2:30-3:30 Lab 163
It’s never too early to think about matters relating to your thesis, dissertation, or doctoral project!
In this session, you’ll learn how to prepare your manuscript for submission to the SU Libraries, SOAR@SU (the SU’s institutional repository), and ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global. You will also learn about your rights as authors, the benefits of making your work open access (along with a consideration of potential issues), and the measures you can take to protect your original work and your ability to publish.
This session is relevant to all SU graduate students, including Master’s and PhD students.
May the Data be with You!
3:40 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Labs 162, 163, 117
Qualtrics
This brief session will highlight basic information about survey/form creation, including steps for creating and modifying items, adjusting formatting, and working collaboratively with surveys. A brief overview of key survey options, distribution of surveys, and exporting of survey results will also be provided.
SPSS
You have data, now what are you going to do with it?! Learn how to navigate the SPSS program to perform simple tasks such as recoding, calculating variables, merging data, and running frequencies. A brief introduction to more advanced statistical analyses will be shared as well.
nVivo
NVivo is a qualitative research software program that gives you a place to organize, store and retrieve your data so you can work more efficiently, save time and rigorously back up findings with evidence. Import data from virtually any source – text, audio, video, emails, images, spreadsheets, online surveys, social and web content and more. With advanced data management, query and visualization tools, NVivo lets you ask complex questions of your data so you can discover more. NVivo is ideal for desk research and literature reviews as well, and we will take a look at some of the basic functionality in this short demonstration.
“Truly Wonderful the Mind of a Child is.” ( Mindfulness, Yoga)
4:35 p.m. -5:35 p.m. Lab 163
Join Tara Gladden for a gentle, relaxing yoga session designed to release stress and forge a deeper connection with breath. Basic yoga asanas will be introduced along with breathing exercises that increase awareness and unite mind and body. Practice is suitable for all levels. Wear comfortable clothes you can easily move in and bring a mat if you have one.