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RIAs Workshops (SC)

Slides from workshops for Swarthmore's Research & Information Associates

Workshop 12/05/17

Guides to review:

EN 103: Honors First Year Writing
Course guide from University of Alabama
Explore Chicago Collections
Religions, Conflict, and Peace (Fall 2017)
Course guide from Indiana/Purdue University
Research Guides: Russian
Subject guide from Amherst
Literature Review Planning Guide
Deakin University

Guide-Making Resources:

Writing Technical Content
MailChimp content and writing guide
Writing for the Web

Resources for workshop 11/1/17

Review Articles: Searchable collections (multiple disciplines)

Oxford Bibliographies Online
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Annotated bibliographies written by scholars (Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences)
-- Excellent way to get a sense for the literature on a topic
-- Useful for quickly identifying a few major sources
Annual Reviews
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Review articles on topics in particular disciplines (Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences)
-- Some of the disciplines included: Economics, Political Science, Environment & Resources, Linguistics, Engineering, Psychology

Compass Journals
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Review articles on topics in particular disciplines (Social Sciences, Humanities) --
-- Disciplines included: Geography, History, Language and Linguistics, Literature, Philosophy, Religion, Social and Personality Psychology, Sociology

Discipline-specific Review Journals (a few examples):

Review of educational research
Review articles on various topics in education
Psychological Bulletin
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Journal of Economic Literature
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Writing Center Handouts
Handouts from the Writing Center addressing common challenges:
- I have no idea what to write about.
- I don't know how to connect all of my ideas and thoughts together.

Tools

Organizing Research

Zotero

Collaborative Note-Taking

Cryptpad
Quick collaborative documents for taking notes and writing down ideas together.

- Share access to a document simply by sharing the link (no login required)
- Option to share a read-only link

Project-Mapping

Coggle
Tool for diagraming ideas
- Useful for creating project maps and outlines
- Free accounts can create unlimited public diagrams and up to 3 private diagrams