Common Quandaries Workshops and Related Events
The Common Quandaries graduate student workshop and event series offers introductions to a variety of skills, tools, and concepts to researchers on campus.
Details and Materials
All About Conferencing and Publishing: A Graduate Student Panel
At this panel, participants learned about the ins and outs of publishing and conferencing as a graduate student. Panelists discussed the beginning, middle, and end of the process, addressed your questions and offered best practices!
Materials:
Curating Your Digital Presence
This workshop will help you think about:
- Approaching social media as a professional
- Engaging in the professional online conversations in one's field
- Sharing one's work with others
Bring a laptop to set up accounts or get feedback on digital presence!
Materials:
- Presentation slides, Fall 2019 ed.
- Highlights, 2018 ed.
Data Management
This workshop focuses on:- Introduction to the research data life cycle
- Applications of data management to one's research
- Tips on preparing and meeting funding agency challenges including grant writing and research institutions
Materials:
- Presentation slides, 2019 ed.
- Presentation slides, 2018 ed.
Designed for Data: Tidy Data, Project Planning, and Social Science Research
What we’ll cover:- Understanding essential notions of:
- Data philosophy
- End-to-end data construction
- Strategic use of codebooks
- Tidy data
- Developing datasets
- Focusing on data modeling, visualization, and other outputs
- Troubleshooting methods when using datasets
- Understanding the best practices with research data
Materials:
- Slides, ed. 2019
How to Write a Literature Review
The Graduate School Writing Center, in partnership with the Libraries, offers graduate workshops focused on:
- Entering academic conversation through research and writing
- Learning about graduate-specific library privileges
- Implementing effective research and citation practices
- Writing from sources
- Introducing general literature review processes
Materials:
- Presentation Slides, 2019 ed.
- Video Tutorial
LaTeX for Beginners
During this workshop, we will discuss:
- LaTeX basics and uses
- Troubleshooting issues
- Various features, including article class
This workshop will conclude with a hands-on/Q&A session for participants to start using LaTeX on their own. After the workshop participants will be able to:
- Understand why LaTeX is useful for technical fields
- Know when to use it for writing projects
- Create their own article in LaTeX with references
- Know where to find additional information and help
LaTeX Reference Management and Citations
Learn how to manage your references within any LaTeX project! During the workshop we will cover how to
- Export your references from your favorite reference manager
- How citations work in LaTeX documents
This workshop is designed for students and faculty familiar with LaTeX, but no experience is necessary. This workshop will include a hands-on portion, so please bring a device with LaTeX access (online or installed distribution, see https://www.latex-project.org/get/ for details.
Materials:
- Slides are forthcoming
Managing Large Writing with LaTeX
Working on a book, dissertation, or thesis? Learn how to effectively utilize LaTeX to manage your larger writing projects, producing clean, professional documents for any application! During the workshop, we will cover:
- Features of the larger document classes
- How they work
- Options for tracking changes/edits
After the workshop you will:
- Understand how the book and report document classes work
- Know how to manage and troubleshoot your project
- And be ready to work on your own large project in LaTeX!
This workshop is designed for students and faculty with some past LaTeX experience, but all are welcome. The workshop will include a hands-on portion, so please bring a device with LaTeX access (online or installed distribution).
NVIVO Workshop
NVivo is a qualitative data analysis and organizational tool to help users work with unstructured data. In this workshop for beginner users of NVivo, we will cover the following topics:
- How to create a new project
- How to import and organize your data
- How to code different types of data by creating and managing nodes
Materials:
- Full materials, ZIP
ORCID Workshop
Participants will learn about Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID), including:
- Creating and curating ORCID-IDs
- Using ORCID to populate Activity Insight
- Advancing faculty or staff member's scholarly profile
Sponsored by Faculty Affairs and the Libraries
Materials:
- Creating and Curating a Scholarly Profile LibGuide
- Additional materials forthcoming
Organizing Your Research and Using Citation Managers
Still adapting your workflow to graduate school? Starting a new project and worried about staying organized? Need a solution for keeping track of your PDFs and research data? In this workshop you will:
- Learn strategies and best practices for organizing your research sources and data
- Get ideas for note-taking and documenting your work
- Discover the benefits of cloud storage apps
- Get introduced to your choice of citation managers through breakout sessions on EndNote, Mendeley, and Zotero.
Materials:
- Slides, 2019 ed.
- Handout, 2019 ed.
- EndNote Citations PPTX, 2019 ed.
- LibGuide
Details and Materials
Getting Started with Poster Design
During this workshop, participants discussed the incorporation of graphic design elements into the scholastic communication of conference posters.Materials:
