SHORT LINK TO THIS INFORMATION: http://bit.ly/scsugradstudies

with Melanie Guentzel, Director of Graduate Student Services, mjguentzel@stcloudstate.edu

when: Tue, Jan. 22, 2 PM
where: Plymouth campus on Zoom: https://minnstate.zoom.us/j/438287799
who: new international graduate students at SCSU

students in Engineering Management, Regulatory Affairs, and Applied Clinical Research.

Access the library from a distance: https://www.stcloudstate.edu/library/

• Ask a Librarian:
  live chat option with librarians from Minnesota colleges and universities
• scheduling research appointments,
  https://stcloud.lib.minnstate.edu/subjects/guide.php?subject=askalibrarian
  pmiltenoff@stcloudstate.edu
• ILL and having books/articles delivered
  https://www.stcloudstate.edu/library/borrow/interlibrary.aspx
• accessing digital resources:
  online dbases Science Direct, IEEE Xplore

Research and Writing Tips

• Academic Integrity, plagiarism, academic dishonesty
  https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/03/05/college-plagiarism/
  https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/11/02/plagiarism-101/
  https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/09/30/avoid-plagiarism/
  intellectual property, copyright and sharing:
  https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/08/28/oer-workday-librarians/
• finding appropriate sources,
  peer-reviewed versus non-vetted sources
  Google vs. Google Scholar vs. SCSU online dbases vs Academia.edu and ResearchGate.com
  Digg http://digg.com/, Reddit https://www.reddit.com/ , Quora https://www.quora.com/, Wikipedia
• quoting vs. paraphrasing
  https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2016/09/13/how-often-quote/
• copyediting vs proofreading
  https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2019/06/25/copyedting-vs-proofreading/
• citing resources
  https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/08/06/apa-citation/
  citing someone’s else’s citation?
  https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2018/10/12/suggestions-for-academic-writing/
• suggestions for academic writing
  https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2018/01/05/the-writing-process/
  https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/06/11/essay-checklist/
  https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2016/09/26/writing-a-dissertation/
  https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2018/10/12/suggestions-for-academic-writing/
  https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/08/13/analytical-essay/
  https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2018/01/05/replace-common-phrases/
  https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2018/03/03/academic-vocabulary/
  https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2016/10/31/verbiage-very/
  https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2016/09/26/chapter-2-verbiage/
  https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2016/09/13/synonyms-for-said/
  https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/06/12/punctuation/
  https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2018/10/05/punctuation-2/
  https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2016/09/11/transition-words/
• limitations and delimitations in research
  https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/03/28/limitations-and-delimitations-in-research/
• research and literature review
  https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2016/09/11/research-process/
  https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2016/10/08/research-and-literature-review/
  https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2016/09/26/literature-review/

Digital fluency

• Academic research: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2018/11/13/scsu-edad-scopus-vs-academia-vs-researchgate/
  • Academia.edu
  • ResearchGate.com
  • Scopus https://www.scopus.com/home.uri
• Reference and citations services:
  • Zotero:  https://www.zotero.org/
  • Mendeley,
  • RefWorks
  • Fast and easy bibliographic tools:
    https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2013/12/06/bibliographic-tools-fast-and-easy/
• Social media
  • LinkedIn Groups,
  • Facebook Groups,
  • Twitter influencers
• Collaboration tools
  • Office 365
  • Google Drive
  • Zoom, Skype, Google Hangouts
• Collecting and managing your resources:
  Delicious https://del.icio.us/
  Diigo: https://www.diigo.com/
  Evernote: evernote.com OneNote (Microsoft)