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Learning More About the Use of the Google Workspace for Education
Learning More About the Use of the Google Workspace for Education
ALSO TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW TO USE THE GOOGLE WORKSPACE FOR EDUCATION (FORMERLY CALLED "THE GOOGLE EDUCATION SUITE")--WHICH IS CRITICAL TO MAKING THE MOST EFFECTIVE USE OF WISR'S ONLINE COURSES--GO TO:
https://support.google.com/a/users
and to:
https://workspace.google.com/training
Help with Writing
Help with Writing
Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article. Second Edition, by Howard S. Becker and Pamela Richards. University of Chicago Press an imprint of University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Summary:
Students and researchers all write under pressure, and those pressures—most lamentably, the desire to impress your audience rather than to communicate with them—often lead to pretentious prose, academic posturing, and, not infrequently, writer’s block.
Sociologist Howard S. Becker has written the classic book on how to conquer these pressures and simply write. First published nearly twenty years ago, Writing for Social Scientists has become a lifesaver for writers in all fields, from beginning students to published authors. Becker’s message is clear: in order to learn how to write, take a deep breath and then begin writing. Revise. Repeat.
It is not always an easy process, as Becker wryly relates. Decades of teaching, researching, and writing have given him plenty of material, and Becker neatly exposes the foibles of academia and its “publish or perish” atmosphere. Wordiness, the passive voice, inserting a “the way in which” when a simple “how” will do—all these mechanisms are a part of the social structure of academic writing. By shrugging off such impediments—or at the very least, putting them aside for a few hours—we can reform our work habits and start writing lucidly without worrying about grades, peer approval, or the “literature.”
In this new edition, Becker takes account of major changes in the computer tools available to writers today, and also substantially expands his analysis of how academic institutions create problems for them. As competition in academia grows increasingly heated.
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About Writing "the WISR Way":
Go to any WISR course on action-research, for example, MS 511, and access the following sections of Chapter 8, from Volume One of the course text, Principles and Methods of Transformative Action-Research:
Communicating What We Know to Others
Putting Ourselves at the Heart of Telling the Story of Our Action-Inquiry, In Our Own Voice
Writing in Your Own Voice
Help with Spelling & Grammar, and with Footnotes & Bibliographies
Help with Spelling & Grammar, and with Footnotes & Bibliographies
Citing your sources/Putting your Footnotes and References into a Professional Format!
A very good source of guidance and information on using the proper format for citing your sources, by either MLA or APA format, is the Purdue Online Writing Lab ( https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/ )
·Citefast will generate citations in the appropriate format, including especially usefully, in APA (American Psychological Association) 7th edition format, for free—for more information go to: https://www.citefast.com/?s=APA7#_Webpage
Another source is Easy Bib (http://www.easybib.com/ --this website will generate citations in the chosen format, but there is a fee for APA format.
·Yet another excellent resource is cite this for me ( http://www.citethisforme.com/us/citation-generator )
Help with Grammar and Spelling
Ginger Software is free! —spelling, grammar aid, and more ( https://www.gingersoftware.com/content/ginger-is-free/ ) Ginger can now be used not only with Windows and Microsoft Word, but also with Mac and Android systems. And, it can be used in your Chrome browser (as well as Safari and Edge, although WISR recommends using Chrome).
Grammarly is also a very good grammar and spelling aid, and for a slight fee there are added features to help you with your writing ( https://www.grammarly.com/ )
Evaluating online articles and information
Evaluating online articles and information
Read the ebook, Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers...and other people who care about facts. by Mike Caulfield. go to: https://webliteracy.pressbooks.com/
Read and use insights from the following article on evaluating internet sources recommended by WISR Librarian, Cynthia Roberson: Virtual Salt ( https://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm ) This article goes over how to evaluate information and sources, either online or with physical resources.
Some Suggestions for Finding Sources for Further Reading and Research
Some Suggestions for Finding Sources for Further Reading and Research
FOR MORE DETAILS ABOUT ACCESSING THE SOURCES (BELOW) TO USE FOR READINGS AND FURTHER RESEARCH, GO TO: https://sites.google.com/wisr.edu/guide-to-wisrs-online-courses/online-courses/course-readings-accessing-readings
Take full advantage of LIRN (the Library Resources and Information Network—online library database). [WISR pays an annual subscription fee for student and faculty access—LIRN’s website is https://proxy.lirn.net/WesternInstForSocRsch . You enter: "Western Institute for Social Research" -- as the member institution, and then you use the ID #: 58879 and you follow with the password: kindscale93
This ID# and password may not be shared with or used by anyone other than WISR students, faculty and staff. Also, it should be noted that LIRN does continue to expand its offerings every year and the quality is getting better. LIRN is even offering a large number of recently published, high quality academic eBooks for students to check out, under the category, “Ebook Central, Academic Complete.”
Take full advantage of The Directory of Open Access Journals ( https://doaj.org/ ) WISR Librarian, Cynthia Roberson emphasizes that “This resource is 100% free, full of scholarly and peer reviewed journal articles. Having used this database personally as a graduate student, I can say that this resource has gotten a lot better over the years and deserves another look.”
All WISR graduate students are required to join at least one professional organization that is relevant to their studies—many associations give their members free access to high quality journals. WISR MFT students purchase (for $100/year or a bit more) an annual student membership in CAMFT ( http://www.camft.org/ California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists). In addition, many doctoral students may wish to join either CAMFT (out of State doctoral students in the field of psychology/counseling are eligible for an Associate Membership in CAMFT), or the American Educational Research Association ( http://www.aera.net/ ), or the American Sociological Association ( http://www.asanet.org/ ). Also, students may obtain approval from faculty for joining a different professional association. Such memberships give students access to journals (for example, CAMFT provides access to the EBSCO psychology collection, which includes many readings required in each of the modules for all of our MFT courses), and to dialogue and learning with other professionals, that are related to their studies. Participation in such professional associations is an important, valuable benefit that we urge all students to take advantage of, and this is required of all Master’s and Doctoral students.
If you are a California student, you are strongly encouraged to apply to the San Francisco or Los Angeles Public Libraries for a free card which will give you online access to educational videos on Kanopy, and a variety of other resources, including with the SF Library, EBSCO journals--all of which can be accessed online when you are studying anywhere. Many other major California Public Libraries provide you with access to excellent resources, including Kanopy films, and access to one of these other libraries should be sufficient, although few if any have the range of offerings provided by the San Francisco Public Library. If you live outside of California, you are strongly encouraged to find a library membership in your area (public library or university) that provides with access to a range of valuable content, including access to Kanopy videos. If you are unable to do so, there are steps we can take to assist you, using WISR's limited access to essentially needed and required Kanopy films.
For Further Assistance in Identifying Resources
For Further Assistance in Identifying Resources
Discuss with your faculty advisor(s), or with WISR’s librarian ( cynthia.roberson@wisr.edu ) for further assistance in identifying and making optimal use of a number of free and low-cost resources.
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