Upcoming Workshops

Dates and times are still to be announced on the following workshops. Some may go "straight to video" and be posted here, rather than being live workshops you can attend. If workshops are open, the announcement will be here, so keep checking back!

• The Problems of Plagiarism by Dr. Helen Harton, Professor of Psychology
• It's not bragging when it's true! Resume / CV Writing by Susie Schwieger, Director of Graduate Student Life
• The Nonacademic Job Search by Susie Schwieger, Director of Graduate Student Life
• Preparing to Present: Oral and Poster Presentations (for Research Symposium participants and any students looking to present at conferences)
• IRB (Institutional Review Board) Training by The Office of Sponsored Programs

Archive of Past Workshops

Information available below from past workshops includes videos, PowerPoint presentations, and handouts.

Videos with PowerPoints

Special online videos (Real Media Player required) with audio and sincronized PowerPoints of the following workshops are available by clicking on the title of the workshop. This format allows you to browse through the PowerPoint and skip to a particular part of the presentation or watch it all the way through.

• Library Sessions by Chris Neuhaus, Rod Library Instruction Coordinator
  • Session 1: Where to Start? The Rod Library Website. (12 minutes)
    • The UNI Library has over...100 databases...10,000 journals...1,000,000 books...1,000,000,000 articles...and 1 website. Learn how to use it!
  • Session 2: Rod Library Research Guide for Graduate Students (Coming Soon)
    • Whether you looking for databases, style guides, research help, or advice for distance education, this online library guide will quickly put in touch with library services, library resources, and those very helpful UNI librarians.
  • Session 3: How to Search Well. Basics (34 minutes)
    • Boolean Searching. Field Searching. Phrase Searching. Truncation.
    • Learn four basic concepts essential for locating research.
  • Session 4: How to Avoid Pitfalls (10 minutes)
    • As a graduate student...time management = sanity. There are many time wasters out there. Make sure your literature search isn't one of them.
  • Session 5: Know When to Say "When!" (6 minutes)
    • Remember...Job One is "Research"...not literature search.
  • Session 6: Find It! @ UNI (18 minutes)
    • You've found the title. You've found the authors. You've even found the journal. Now, learn how to find the article.
    • Learn how to use the Find It! software to locate articles online, in print, or via interlibrary loan. Find It! - coupled with just a few research rules of thumb - could save you hours, days, or even weeks.
  • Session 7: Interlibrary Loan: A Graduate Student's Best Friend (7 minutes)
    • No electronic copy? No print copy? No go? No!
    • Learn how to easily request articles, books, and book chapters through Interlibrary Loan.
  • Session 8: Research Consultations at the Rod Library (3 minutes)
    • Scheduling a research consultation with a reference librarian is one of the best decisions you can make as a graduate student. If you haven't met with a library specialist, you're working too hard!
  • Session 9: Google Scholar + Find it! @ UNI: Making The Magic Happen Off-Campus (3 minutes)
    • You love Google Scholar. You love Find it! @ UNI. When you're on campus - Google Scholar & Find it! work like magic ... for you! Shouldn't that happen off campus too?
• Writing Workshop Series by Diane Gute, Writing Coordinator, Academic Learning Center
  • The Focused Graduate Student - or - view the PowerPoint alone
    • Includes information to help you: Inventory your research interests and long-term goals, choose a thesis or dissertation topic you can live with, focus your topic, reduce your stress, determine your major research question, define your research personality (quantitative or qualitative), and take charge of your coursework and your faculty contacts.
  • The Productive Graduate Student: Writing the Documents - or - view the PowerPoint alone
    • Includes information to help you: Master the conventions of the Literature Review, the Thesis or Dissertation Proposal and the Abstract and reduce stress by understanding the predictable parts of scholarly research.
  • The Eloquent Graduate Student - or - view the PowerPoint alone
    • Includes information to help you: Recognize features of masters and doctoral documents that undermine writers' clarity, credibility, and professionalism and experience hands-on practice with editing and proofreading strategies.
• Navigating the Universe: Information Pathways - Best Practices for Graduate Students by Chris Neuhaus, Rod Library Instruction Coordinator
  • This workshop includes information to help you: Plan for your literature review, locate dissertations and thesis using a variety of databases, locate research in books using either Word Cat, Google Books, and UNISTAR, use basic search techniques, and locate text found in a reference list or bibliography

Handouts

PDF handouts from the following workshops are available by clicking on the title of the workshop.

• How to Create an Effective Writing Group by Carissa Froyum and Marybeth Stalp
  • This handout discusses the benefits and challenges of forming writing groups. It offers suggestions for forming a writing group and structuring the meetings. It also includes specific ideas for giving and recieving constructive criticism that will help all members of the group develop and improve their writing.
• Jobs with the Federal Government by Isabel Varela
  • This handout includes a US and world map showing the distribution of US government positions throughout different regions. It provides a list of information that will be required by any Federal application for employment. Explanations and examples of KSA (Knowledge, Skill, and Abilities) writing and a few writing suggestions are given.
• A Guide to KSA (Knowledge, Skill, and Abilities) Writing
  • This handout provides detailed suggestions for and practice in KSA writing. It includes blank tables to help organize and select experiences and format paragraphs as well as many tips.