Graduate Brain Food Workshop: Getting Started on Your Thesis
2018-06-18 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | McLaughlin Library, 480 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
In this workshop session, we provide foundational skills and strategies that will carry you through the thesis or dissertation process. Topics covered will include:

Managing the Thesis Process: We discuss goal setting and time management strategies to keep you motivated throughout your graduate degree
Formulating Your Research Question: Your research question forms the basis of your research project. In this session, we discuss how to formulate an effective research question and how to use it to guide and inform your thesis or dissertation from start to finish
Working with Data: With so many ways to obtain data it’s difficult to make sense of it sometimes. Come to this workshop to learn techniques on how to start working with your data and better answer your research question.

Participants will have the opportunity to obtain a Graduate Writing and Research Skills Letter of Recognition in acknowledgment of their efforts to expand their knowledge and skills.

Check out the full list of Graduate Brain Food Workshops from the library.
McLaughlin Library, Room 384

Graduate Brain Food Workshop: Writing the Literature Review
2018-06-18 13:00 - 16:00 | Ontario, Canada
In this workshop session, we focus on one of the most difficult parts of a thesis to write, the Literature Review.
Gathering and Reading Literature
A good thesis demands a good literature review, and that means finding and critically analyzing the key literature in your field. In this session, learn some methods for finding and evaluating the literature in order to select relevant and authoritative sources. We’ll also be discussing the use of Zotero for citation management.
Writing the Literature Review
Your literature review is a key component of your thesis or dissertation. This session will discuss how to connect the literature review to your argument, build the structure for your review, and avoid some of the common traps when writing.
Participants will have the opportunity to obtain a Graduate Writing and Research Skills Letter of Recognition in acknowledgment of their efforts to expand their knowledge and skills.
Check out the full list of Graduate Brain Food Workshops from the library.
McLaughlin Library, Room 384
