Lightning Talk by Cynthia Cohen - Instilling Good Research Habits in STEM Undergrads

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1. Instilling Good Research Habits in STEM Undergrads Cynthia Cohen STEM Librarian, Claremont Colleges Library Science Boot Camp for Librarians Southeast NCSU Libraries | July 17, 2014
2. Ah… Summer Research Image Credit: Flickr/Robert Tadlock (https://flic.kr/p/595GWk)
3. What would you like us to teach? • Choosing the right database and advanced searching strategies. • Evaluating the quality and appropriateness of resources and articles. • How to keep your sources and notes organized for assignments or eventual publication and presentation. • Using citation manager software to integrate citations into writing, create bibliographies and help organize articles and research.
4. An Experiment! From “Science club, Pomona College” in the Claremont Colleges Digital Library (http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ccp/id/5924)
5. How to keep your sources and notes organized for assignments or eventual publication and presentation: 1. Organizing sources 2. Strategic notetaking
7. How to keep your sources and notes organized for assignments or eventual publication and presentation: 1. Organizing sources 2. Strategic notetaking
8. Five opportunities! 1. May 27 – Bioengineering 2. May 29 – Bioengineering + My example
9. Good intentions… 3. June 2 – Chemistry + My example
10. Making it interactive… 4. June 10 – Mathematics + Group debrief Short in-class exercise
11. Work alone or together Read article & take notes using any format/method Find some things (and mark them up with words, circles, highlights, symbols, codes, letters, numbers) • Author name(s); publication date. • Find a source cited in this article, and enough information to find the full text of that source. • A word you don’t know/would have to look up the definition for.
12. Result: EPIC FAIL! “Some of us use a highlighter, and some of us underline.”
13. Tentative conclusions 1. My assignment provided no opportunity for creative notetaking strategies. 2. Students do nothing interesting with their notes in general. 3. Students had no personal investment or interest in my assignment.
14. Last chance! (for this summer) 5. June 25/July 9 – Neurobiology • Twice as much class time • Enthusiastic faculty collaborator
15. + My example + Group debrief Pair & share Not bad!
16. Conclusions 1. My assignment provided no opportunity for creative notetaking strategies. 2. Students do nothing interesting with their notes in general. 3. Students had no personal investment or interest in my assignment.
17. Thank you! Cynthia Cohen cynthia_cohen@cuc.claremont.edu