Doctoral Support Center & Doctoral Programming Blog

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.