Tips and Tricks for Formatting Your Thesis: Little Things Mean A Lot!
Are you worried about getting your thesis/dissertation into the format required by the Faculty of Graduate Studies? Research Commons staff will help you with your questions about the nuts and bolts of formatting: tables of contents, page layout, numbering, headings, front matter, and more! As well, find out more about the resources that are available to help you in writing your thesis/dissertation. Graduate students at any stage of the writing process are welcome; some prior knowledge of Microsoft Word will be helpful.
Tuesday January 20th at 12:00pm – 2:00pm
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Citation Management Using ProQuest Flow
Need to manage large numbers of references and citations as part of your research, teaching or administrative work? Citation management tools are for you. These tools provide a simple way to store, organize and retrieve your citations in an effective manner, and can also help you in formatting in-text citations and bibliographies in your work.
Friday, January 23rd at 11:00am – 1:00pm
http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/5365
NVivo – NEW OFFERING
YOU WILL NEED TO BRING YOUR OWN LAPTOP OR OTHER DEVICE IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO TAKE NOTES. NVivo is one of the leading computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) packages, and is now available for both PC and Mac operating systems. The Research Commons can help grad students to get started successfully using NVivo in qualitative research. Note: NVivo is not free software. NVivo is not currently available on UBC Library computers.
Wenesday, January 28th, 2015 at 4:00pm – 6:00pm; Koerner Library RM 216
http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/5437
SPSS
Workshop 3- Descriptive/Graphing Analysis with SPSS
Do you have trouble summarizing your data? Do you want to analyze your data with t-test, ANOVA, Pearson-test, etc. using SPSS? Do you have trouble graphing and presenting your data with SPSS? Well, we can help you with all of these questions. Enroll in this workshop and learn how to analyze your data hassle-free!
Monday, January 19th from 12:00pm – 2:00pm
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Workshop 4- Regression Analysis
Regression analysis is a statistical process for estimating the relationships among variables. We can use regression to make quantitative predictions of one variable from the values of another. Do you wonder how to do linear and logistic regression analysis with SPSS? Do you want to learn about simple and multivariate regression modeling? Register for the SPSS Regression workshop to get a sense of it all!
Monday, January 19th from 2:30pm – 5:00pm
http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/5359
Stay Alert! Keeping Current with Research
In this workshop, you’ll learn strategies and tools to help you stay up-to-date with the published literature. We’ll cover: How to create saved search alerts for new articles and dissertations on your topic; How to set up Table of Contents alerts for your favourite journals; How to find out when a key article has been cited by someone else; How to use social media tools such as blogs and Twitter to hear the buzz around new research. Please bring your own laptop.
Tuesday January 20th, 2015 at 12:30pm – 2:00pm; Koerner Library RM 217
http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/5302
Building Your Academic Profile
Thinking about publishing your research? There are more ways to communicate your scholarly ideas than ever before. Learn about skills and tools for discussing, interacting, presenting, writing, commenting, and finally publishing your research. In this workshop you will: develop a scholarly/publication profile using both traditional and social tools, build knowledge of formal and informal modes of publication, identify ways to broadly participate in your field (e.g. webinars, blogs, open education resources)
Tuesday January 27th, 2015 at 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Koerner Library, Rm 216
http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/5387