Today we have Angie, TA to some of you, here to guide us through a hands-on workshop with RefWorks. Diane showed this to us on Wednesday and today we get to really practise using it.
Remember, please tweet three reflections on today's lecture to both myself
(@JessL) and to Angie (@charleston_chiu)
Here is Angie's lecture:
Very helpful information on RefWorks! It is very confusing and somewhat complicated, so it was nice to have the lesson on it. I definitely still need some practice on in though. I guess I will get it while I write my journal article assignment!
ReplyDeleteMy lab TA did an awesome job with her presentation this morning! I didn't bring my laptop to class but I already signed up for refworks after class on Wednesday. There is so much to learn about using refworks and citations. Her presentation was really organized and I will definitely be using it to refer back to, to help with my scientific paper and with other assignments. Write-N-cite will also be a great help with citing and keeping organized! Thanks Angie!
ReplyDeleteRefWorks seems quite complicated. I think I will still be sticking to my Little Penguin Book with APA formatting, citing, and referencing! I like seeing things on paper and being able to hold it in my hands.
ReplyDeleteI have used refworks before but it has been a while. This class was my re-introduction to refworks. Here is an example of one n of my references made by refworks:
ReplyDeleteTaylor Jr., C. A. (2003). Rangeland monitoring and fire: Wildfires and prescribed burning, nutrient cycling, and plant succession. Arid Land Research & Management, 17(4), 429.
I couldn't get my Refworks to work in lab..but I think I'll try and get it up and running after today's lecture from Angie. There seems to be a lot to know about refworks..so I'm also going to check out the different citation websites the UofA website offers. I'll for sure be going back to her PowerPoint whenever I need to write up a bibliography for any of my classes that require one. Thanks! Very useful lecture today!!
ReplyDeleteI think that after practice on RefWorks, it could come in handy! Right now, I think it would take me longer to use that rather than just figure it out myself! But if I got good at it then it would probably really help me out! Thanks for the lecture Angie!
ReplyDeleteNavigating through a few of the features available on RefWorks was really helpful. I will definitely make use of this tool for upcoming papers. Below is an example of a reference I pulled using RefWorks:
ReplyDeleteDunford, M., & Doyle, J. A. (2012). Nutrition for sport and exercise (2nd ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
(Title of the book should be italized and any text past the first line should be indented.)
RefWorks is quite an amazing resource for us as University of Alberta students to have access to (for free!). I learned many new things about RefWorks today:
ReplyDelete1. Organizing references for different projects/papers/courses is easy when you use the "folders" function to store each article according to the category it falls under.
2. Along with your references, you can also store PDF files in RefWorks, making it convenient and easy to find the original source from which your citation came.
3. The "Write-N-Cite" tool allows for insertion of citations straight into your document from RefWorks.
4. There are other (also free) resources available to us that are similar to RefWorks, two examples given were Zotero and Mendeley.
5. Our University of Alberta librarians are familiar with a wide variety of reference management tools and are available to help us whenever we need it.
6. Like humans, RefWorks (and the like) are not perfect. Always proof-read your work to make sure it's error-free and formatted properly before you hand it in.
Thanks, Angie!
I just got my final essay requirements on the English class. I would use refworks on my citing and referencing. These day's lectures are really helpful in our writing.But I need more pratice on refworks for its a totally new thing for me.
ReplyDeleteI wish I had known about RefWorks sooner, it would have saved me so much time. At first it appears quite complicated, but I know the more I use it, the easier it will get.
ReplyDeleteToday's lecture was very helpful with learning how to use RefWorks properly. I know I will be using it a lot in the future.
When i was trying to use refworks before this class i had no idea what i was doing and but after todays presentation refworks is not as complicated as i thought and it seems to be more useful than annoying. I glad she went over how to import or export sources from different websites because i didnt know it was different for each. Im still having trouble with write and cite but im sure ill get the hang of it. This is going to save me so much time and worry when making my bibliography.
ReplyDeleteI tried logging in to refworks at home to work on an assignment but I was not able to access it for some reason. After I entered in the group code the page wouldn't load. Any suggestions?
ReplyDeleteAngie's lecture was super helpful!.. Although I wish I would've have known how to use RefWorks in my early university years. Now that I'm in my last year here, using RefWorks and Write N Cite would have saved so much time when added cumulatively. Nonetheless, it's still a good skill to have, and I guess better late than never.
ReplyDeleteI was so excited to use RefWorks, but it's not friendly with my beloved macintosh. I will still use it to create bibliographies. As for citing, Courtney told us about the Owl Perdue website I'm sure I will frequent.
ReplyDeleteAngie's lecture was definitely helpful and I'm glad she demonstrated how to use RefWorks. It looks very difficult to use so having this presentation helped a lot. Although I don't mind doing the references and citing myself, I will definitely look into RefWorks in the future. Thanks ALES204 for introducing us to so many tools helpful to us university students!
ReplyDeleteThis is great! I can't believe none of my other TA's have never mentioned this tool to us when it came to writing papers and reports. I'm slowly getting the hang out it and love how easy it is to generate a citation. Thanks for teaching us about RefWorks!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the tutorial on Refworks Angie! I have heard of Refworks but never really thought much about it. With this tool it is quick and easy to reference articles. Now I won't have to spend my time squinting at the OWL perdue citation website, trying to determine where to place a comma or a period.
ReplyDeleteWe were supposed to send you one of our citations on twitter, but it was too long so I will just post it here:
Keates, H., & Whittem, T. (2011). Effect of intravenous dose escalation with alfaxalone and propofol on occurrence of apnoea in the dog. Research in Veterinary Science, doi:10.1016/j.rvsc.2011.10.003
Thanks again for the tutorial!
I found both this Angie and Diane's lectures incredibly helpful. Attending these lectures in my first three years of post secondary would have saved me so much time and stress.
ReplyDeleteRefworks is so neat! I didn't know it existed until Wednesday, and now i'm so glad that it does. The feature I like the most about it is that it organizes your in text citations and automatically creates a bibliography based on your citations. Since Angie showed us how the site works it won't even take a long time to figure out how to use it, which means: extra extra time saved. Thanks so much for the lecture Angie!
After exploring Refworks, it is obvious that this presentation has helped a lot of individuals in ALES 204, including myself. The only issue I am having is finding an article with a title short enough to fit in the limit of 140 characters on twitter! Thanks for your help Angie, it is greatly appreciated.
ReplyDeleteSince my reference was too to post on twitter, here it is:
ReplyDeleteCooper, R. (2011). Green tea and theanine: Health benefits. International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition, doi:10.3109/09637486.2011.629180
It will save so much time and reduce much stress if Refworks can cite for us. I think these techniques would benifit not only in this class but also in other courses, even helpful with our daily lives. Although it seems complicated at first time, I believe after several times' practising, it will get better.
ReplyDeleteWell organized lecture by showing how to use Refworks step by step, which will definitely increase the chance of using Refworks by students. Nice to know a handy tool for citing references.
ReplyDeleteOne example pulling from Refwork:
Paterson, CR., & Monk, EA. (2011). Temporary brittle bone disease: relationship between clinical findings and judicial outcome. Pediatr Rep. 30; 3(3):24.
Before the lecture on wednesday I had never heard of refworks, this was incredibly helpful. I have wasted hours stressing about my citations and bibliography on past papers. I hope that refworks will be easy to use, especially with the step-by-step directions we were given. I look forward to trying it out on my next paper.
ReplyDeleteRefWorks is going to be a very useful tool for me from now on. Citing and referencing has always been one of my most dreaded parts of paper writing. Thanks to Angie for walking us through the many ways we can take advantage of this site!
ReplyDeleteCouldn't fit my reference from RefWorks into a tweet, so here it is!
ReplyDeleteGodfrey, K. M., & Barker, D. J. P. (1995). Maternal nutrition in relation to fetal and placental growth. European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 61(1), 15-22.
Bond, V., Ordor, O., Bruckner, G., Webb, P., Kotchen, T., Tearney, R. J., & Adams, R. G. (1989).
ReplyDeleteEffects of dietary fish oil or pectin on blood pressure and lipid metabolism in the DOCA-salt hypertensive rat. The Journal of Nutrition, 119(5), 813-817.
above is a reference that i was suppose to tweet you but it was too long so i decided to post it here. please note that the style of reference that appear here is actually different, that is any writing after the first line is/should be indented.
Refworks allows you to store and organize articles you find from the library database. This is really helpful to quickly bring up articles rather then having to search for them each time you need them. Refworks is also convenient because once the article is on your refworks account you can get the APA citation for it. I will not completely rely on refworks for all my citations because I think it is a good skill to have to know how to properly cite without an application.
ReplyDeleteRefworks is a great tool to use when doing papers because you tend to go back to the same articles several times. Refworks helps you organise and store those articles for future use.
ReplyDeleteI have been at University for 3 years and did not knew about Ref Works. It is a great and convenient tool to use especially when one is writing a research paper where citing of individual article can be hectic. The Feature i liked them most about Ref Works is "Rite and Cite" which keeps helps us manage our time, easy to integrate, and less prone to error if done correctly. Thanks to ales once again for providing us great resource that adds to our success in the long term.
ReplyDeletethe TA did an awesome job explaining features of Ref Works. Ref Work is very easy to use, manage, and unlike other websites such as Mendely.
I'm actually glad Refworks exist, especially in undergrad where I wrote majority of papers at this stage of my life. I might start using it but for now, it's better to start your papers early. I find it interesting that it can also do in text citations for you. I'll definitely recommend this to my friends who never heard of it. Thanks!
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I was really glad we could have a lesson on how to use Refworks. The lecture was extremely useful and practical! I am definitely going to use Refworks when writing papers in the future. Maybe I will use it for some ALES projects too! Citing sources has always been a source of stress for me in the past, but this technology is something that will really help! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteWow, I wish I would have known about this program before. Referencing can become very tough if you don't write them down right away. This looks to be a great way to organize your references, and with the ability to create folders will even work for multiple projects. Thanks for the info, can't wait to actually learn how to use this properly as I was having a bit of difficulty in class.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why I didn't try this before! It is so convenient and I don't need to worry there are errors in the format! The only thing that bothers a little is that ref-work requires txt format, why? PDF is better to read I think.
ReplyDeleteI just tried RefWorks for another class. Amazing! So glad you introduced us to this wonderful method.
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