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A few more tips for in-text citations

October 22, 2015 / / 3 Comments

Alexandra emailed me with a few concerns about in-text citations. We discussed some of these in class yesterday but here again are the things we talked about. Remember that citing is sort of a game and it can be frustrating at times. If you need anything please do not hesitate to reach out to me and I will do my best to help.

Here is the direct link to the Purdue Owl page on MLA in-text citations.

Zotero has an easy plugin for Firefox that allows you to click on any webpage and add it into your Zotero library. Zotero1

If you click the Z it will open up a Zotero library at the bottom of the page. 

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Once you have all your sources imported into the library you can make your bibliography.Zotero3

 

The following menu will come up.

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Paste your bibliography into your final paper. 

Gullotta, Thomas P, Adams, Gerald R, and Montemayor, Raymond. Developing Social Competency in Adolescence. Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1990. Print.
Mishler, Elliot George. Storylines: Craftartists’ Narratives of Identity. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Print.
Strack, Robert W., Cathleen Magill, and Kara McDonagh. “Engaging Youth Through Photovoice.” Health Promotion Practice 5.1
(2004): 49–58. Print.
Travlou, Penny et al. “Place Mapping with Teenagers: Locating Their Territories and Documenting Their Experience of the Public Realm.” Children’s Geographies 6.3 (2008): 309–326. CrossRef. Web.
Wang, Caroline, and Mary Ann Burris. “Photovoice: Concept, Methodology, and Use for Participatory Needs Assessment.” Health Education & Behavior 24.3 (1997): 369–387. Print.
Wortham, Stanton Emerson Fisher. Narratives in Action: A Strategy for Research and Analysis. New York: Teachers College Press, 2001. Print. Counseling and Development Series.

 

 

Sharing your Presentations

October 2, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Here is the space to upload your presentations so others can use them as a resource.

In order to post your presentation, first save it as .pdf and then upload it using the Add Media button. Then you can upload the .pdf file and insert it into your post. Let me know if you have any questions.

**Remember to check the category as ‘Student Presentations’ . These posts can be found under the Project Archive menu -> Student Presentations**

Some resources for Writing and Citing

September 16, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Hi all,

Here a few things that have really helped me keep track of my references and helped me created bibliographies.

  1. Obviously Google Scholar is my number one place to look for articles. If they are available as PDF versions, they tell you. If you are logged in or using a CUNY wifi network it will usually tell you if it is available at your campus. I also often use the cited by feature as I am usually searching for similar articles. NEVER PAY FOR ARTICLES!!! (see #2)
  2. It is also very important to know how to get articles from your library either on or off campus. The CUNY digital libraries are pretty good and I have found that I can get access to almost any article I need. Additionally, inter-library loan is an amazing thing where you just ask for an article that CUNY doesn’t have and within the hour they email it to you. AMAZING!!!
  3. My favorite citation organizer is probably Zotero (others are RefWorks and EndNote). It is free and can be used as a plug-in on Firefox as well as an app that you can download to your laptop. You can sync your libraries, and if you have a pdf of a journal article or the ISBN of a book, it will automatically (if in their database) fill in the citation information for you. It does have a bit of a learning curve but I can do a quick demo in the next class.
  4. I always go to Purdue Owl when I am writing a paper. It is something I keep open in a tab while I am writing. It is pretty much the go to resource on all of the rules for APA and MLA and they give you lots of examples to use. This is great for even the most basic of things like how to format your title page, abstract, headings and subheadings, running headers, page numbers, in-text citations, and everything else.
  5. If you are a science person you may want to play with Mendeley. This is a great place to organize and search for papers. I think it just uses google scholar searches but it will also recommend other papers and will cite and organize your pdfs. It is pretty much the go to for all the sciences I think. It also has a social media type component so you can network with other science people.
  6. Finally, and this is a more recent thing that I have been introduced to so I don’t know the full capacity of it, in Google Drive, under Tools is a Research button that opens up a side bar that allows you to search google scholar and google web and also add in citations. It is something worth playing with I think.

If you have any questions about any of these resources, please feel free to email me. About anything really. I will be in our class the next time we meet to talk more about this but in the meantime, play and learn so we can all share together when we next meet. Hope these are useful in some way.

 

 

How to upload your video as a post

September 9, 2015 / / 0 Comments
  1. Transfer your video from your phone to your laptop
  2. Create a free vimeo account.
  3. Click ‘Upload a Video’
  4. Choose the file to upload, set the Privacy setting so ‘Only people with a password can see this video’ – Set your password as ‘dance’
  5. Wait for your video to upload
  6. Click on the green bar that says ‘Upload Complete! Go to Video. (this takes about a half hour so go do something else for a little.)
  7. Once your video is uploaded, go to My Videos.
  8. On your video, click the paper airplane icon for share settings.
  9. Copy the link and paste it into a New Post on the eportfolio.
  10. The video will appear and it will ask you to put in the password (‘dance’)
  11. Publish your post with any commentary that Donna required.

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