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Overview
This week, look ahead to your future as an academic researcher. As you explore areas of interest and grow your research skills, you will encounter specific topics and sources that you’d like to save, organize, refer back to, and cite during your studies and possibly after you leave UMSL.
Therefore, our final skillset to impart is citation management: the process of organizing and referencing your sources in an efficient way. There are multiple citation management tools out there, some free and some that cost money. In this class, we cover Zotero, which is both robust and free.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this week, you will be able to:
- Identify the purpose of citation management tools
- Use the Zotero software to:
- Save sources to your Zotero library via a browser plug-in
- Organize sources in a way that makes sense to you and your work
- Auto-generate citations from your Zotero library sources in a word processing tool like Word
This week, you also complete your final annotated bibliography and research reflection. The goals of these assignments are to practice skills and reinforce new concepts you learned throughout this class.
Week 8 Activities
- Watch the Intro to Zotero video
- Submit your Final Annotated Bibliography by 10 PM Sunday, October 19
- Submit your Research Reflection by 10 PM Sunday, October 19
