L01 Citation Management and Academic Writing

Goals:

• Learning about the basics of paper formatting and the use of citation management software. These two tools are indispensable for any writing assignments.

Software:

• Zotero (install from https://www.zotero.org/)
• MS Word (or Apache OpenOffice)

Class:

• MS Word (or Apache OpenOffice):
  1. the basics of formatting with styles
     • Tutorial: https://edu.gcfglobal.org/
     • Also, see: https://support.office.com/
  2. footnotes; page numbers; page setup
• Zotero:
  1. importing citations into Zotero;
  2. managing PDFs;
  3. inserting citations into text;
  4. reformatting.
• Zotero Plugins:
  1. ZotFile
  2. Zutilo
  3. Better BibTeX

Reference materials:

• Tutorial for MS Word 2016 https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/word2016/
• [Mac] Taking a screenshot: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT20136
• [Win] Taking a screenshot: https://www.howtogeek.com/226280/how-to-take-screenshots-in-windows-10/

Homework:

• Format a plain text paper into a proper MS Word document using styles, and managing citations and citation styles with Zotero (email the doc file).
• Plain text file for the task: McCarty_Modeling.txt
• Use this PDF file as a guide for your formatting: McCarty_Modeling.pdf