[ED-TECH] RefWorks/Write-N-Cite Lunch and Learn - Thur, Feb 23

NOTE: The Faculty Lunch and Learn series is designed for teachers at UM. Staff and other members of the UM community are also invited to attend if the content seems relevant to them.

At the next Faculty Lunch and Learn session, Holly Ackerman will demonstrate the RefWorks/Write-N-Cite system. This system can be used to collect references, tag citations, and create bibliographies in a wide variety of styles. This web based system is provided through Richter Library, so there is no charge to use it. You can even import the results of some Richter Library searches, so you don't have to type in the material. You can add comments and annotations, so RefWorks can become the primary collection point for notes and materials for any paper you or your students are working on.

You can help your students if you will take a moment to learn about this valuable resource so that you can encourage them to make use of it. To register, go to http://www.snurl.com/refworks and fill out the on-line form. Complete details are below.

RefWorks/Write-N-Cite

Holly Ackerman
Richter Library

How do you help your students manage their references and include citations/bibliographies in the proper style? RefWorks is a personal database manager that they can use to store and annotate all their references. Write-N-Cite is the Microsoft Word add-in that allows them to tag the citations in their paper and produce a final document in most any style that is needed.

Did you know that there is no charge to use this web based system at UM? Did you know that you can import citations from search results on many of the library's databases?

You can help your students if you will take a moment to learn about this valuable resource so that you can encourage them to make use of it. Of course, you can use it for your references, too.

Thursday, February 23, 2006
12:30 PM - 1:20 PM
Whitten University Center
Room 226 A/B (Flamingo Ballroom A/B)

Lunch will be served. Registration is required.

In my opinion, this is a service that all of our students, both graduate and undergraduate, should be using to support their original writing activities. I hope you will be able to attend. For those people who cannot attend, we will post a recording of the session on the www.miami.edu/iac web site in the "Lunch and Learn Series" area once the recording is ready.

Bill Vilberg

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