Doctoral Support Center & Doctoral Programming Blog

Reminder: APA Presentation Wednesday!

Don't forget, Dr. Jade Winn will be presenting on the APA guidelines this Wednesday, September 29, from 3:00-4:00 PM in MRF 204.  Try and attend this important workshop or come to the online webcast:

You can view recorded webcasts of the above presentations and take part in them yourself by doing the following:

1. Go to the blackboard website at https://blackboard.usc.edu
2. Select User Login:

• Username - enter your USC email username.
• Password - enter your USC email password.
• Once you login, under the section "Course List" select "20061_rsoe_dsc_ns00002: RSOE Doctoral Support Center (DSC)"

3. Click on the left menu button reading "Online Resources"

• note the DSC username and password (you'll need it to get to the programs)
• click the link for the DSC Online catalog
• enter the username and password
• enter "DSC Presentation Webcasts"
• click the link for the presentation you're interested in watching.

All the handouts for the presentations are available via Blackboard in the "Course Documents" section under "Presentations and Handouts."

If you have any questions or just need some support, join the Backboard discussion of the presentations in the "Presentations and Workshops" part of the "Discussion" section.

RSVP to the Doctoral Support Center - <rsoedsc@usc.edu>

Announcing: DSC Fall Presentation Line-up

Brush up on your research skills as you learn and refresh your research writing.  Here's the DSC Fall presentation line-up:

Critical Reading Analysis (Dr. Gokce Gokalp)
Wednesday, August 25 (3:00 - 4:00 PM)
Saturday, August 28 (10:00 - 11:00 AM)

Library Resources (Dr. Jade Winn)
Saturday, August 28 (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
Wednesday, September 1 (3:00-4:00 PM)

Academic Writing (Dr. Gokce Gokalp)
Wednesday, September 22 (3:00 - 4:00 PM)
Saturday, September 25 (10:00 - 11:00 AM)

APA (Dr. Jade Winn)
Saturday, September 25 (11:00AM - 12:00 PM)
Wednesday, September 29 (3:00PM - 4:00 PM)

Pre-Proposal Methodology (Kevin Collins)
Wednesday, October 6 (3:00 - 4:00 PM)
Saturday, October 9 (10:00 - 11:00 AM)

Post-Proposal Methodology (Dr. Ilda Jimenez y West)
Wednesday, October 20 (3:00 - 4:00 PM)
Saturday, October 23 (10:00 - 11:00 AM)

Introduction to SPSS (Dr. Jade Winn)
Wednesday, November 10 (3:00 - 4:00 PM)

RSVP: rsoedsc@usc.edu
Live Webcast: The Wednesday session of each presentation will be available livecast and via Blackboard.

Locations will be announced when finalized.  The most current information is available here.

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Information For You! Available on the DSC Blackboard Site

All of the 2009 - 2010 presentations from the USC Doctoral Support Center are available via the DSC's Blackboard site.  

Here's how you access them.  Just log into Blackboard, click on the DSC course link.  Under Online Resources, scroll down to "DSC Online Programs" and use the link (and login / password) provided to access the videos.  They're in the file marked DSC Presentation Webcasts.

The library contains the following presentations:

1. Academic Writing
2. APA Style
3. Balancing School Work, and Family
4. Dissertation Defense
5. Dissertation Presentation
6. Graduate School Guidelines
7. Library Resources
8. Literature Review
9. Navigating the Dissertation
10. Preparing for the Research Proposal
11. Refworks at USC Libraries

Check it out and see if there's something you can use. 

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Presentation: Using RefWorks - Wednesday, Feb. 24

The DSC will be sponsoring our own Refworks presentation Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, MRF 204.

Learn how to manage your research better!  RefWorks -- an online research management, writing and collaboration tool -- is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

At this presentation you will learn how to:

• • Get your references into RefWorks
  • Both direct export, using BibTex to import, and manually inputting.
  • Organize references into folders
  • Use Write-N-Cite to do in-text citations.
  • De-duplicate reference list and creating shared work folders
  • Share References
  • Format Bibliographies and Manuscripts in Seconds
  • Change Formats (say, APA to MLA style) Quickly and Easily

Please RSVP: rsoedsc@usc.edu

Refworks Presentation 3PM Today

The USC Committee for Gender Equity invites you to a free Workshop on "Using Refworks Software" being held today, February 4, 2010 in Leavey Library, Learning Room B.

At this workshop you will learn how to:

• Create an account and navigate RefWorks
  
  • Get your references into RefWorks
  • Both direct export, using BibTex to import, and manually inputting.
  • Organize references into folders
  • Use Write-N-Cite to do in-text citations.
  • De-duplicate reference list and creating shared work folders
  • Share References
  • Format Bibliographies and Manuscripts in Seconds
  • Change Formats (say, APA to MLA style) Quickly and Easily

Presentation sponsored by GPSS.

Can't attend today?  The DSC will be sponsoring our own Refworks presentation Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, MRF 204.  See our events page for more information.

More details coming soon.

APA Manual Corrections

The publishers of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition have been made aware that the first printing (July 2009 - blue cover) contains numerous errors. Complaints from researchers, students and librarians have induced APA to offer a compilation of the corrections online.

The explanation and compiled corrections for this printing can be found here on the APA website as a PDF download. They have also created an FAQ and a list of sample corrected pages.

There are many significant corrections.  If you purchased the first printing of this APA manual edition, you should make yourself aware of the errors and corrections. Our suggestion would be to print out copies of the corrections and insert them in your APA manual so they will be there when you need them. Making notations on each page where corrections occur would also be useful.

If you have any subsequent printing, these errors were corrected in your edition.