{"id":3393,"date":"2013-09-13T15:31:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T19:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=3393"},"modified":"2013-09-19T14:24:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T18:24:51","slug":"technical-paper-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/technical-paper-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Technical Paper Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/09\/engineering.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"engineering\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/09\/engineering.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are you a student in CIVE 432, CHEE 360, CHEE 462 or any other course in Engineering where you are writing a technical paper?\u00a0 If so, please join us for a hands-on workshop on <strong>Researching and Citing for Your Technical Paper<\/strong>!\u00a0 The sessions will be held on Mon. Sept. 16 from 2:30-4pm and Tues. Sept. 17 from 1-2:30pm in Room 313 of Schulich Library.\u00a0 The same workshop will be offered on both dates.\u00a0 You will learn how to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Build an effective search strategy<\/li>\n<li>Find journal articles and other sources (such as standards) appropriate for your research topic<\/li>\n<li>Use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/services\/citation\/software\/endnote\">EndNote<\/a> to quickly cite your sources and automatically create the bibliography for your paper<\/li>\n<li>Read published articles in half the time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you can\u2019t make the workshop, here are some of the sources we will be exploring for finding material on your research topic: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technicalreports.org\/trail\/search\/\">Technical Report Archive and Image Library<\/a> (TRAIL), <a href=\"http:\/\/mcgill.worldcat.org\/oclc\/58465214\">ProQuest Dissertations and Theses<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/find\/subjects\/science\/standards\/\">McGill Library\u2019s subject guide to standards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions about this workshop or about writing and citing for your technical paper, please contact <a href=\"mailto:tara.mawhinney@mcgill.ca\">tara.mawhinney@mcgill.ca<\/a> or <a href=\"mailto:giovanna.badia@mcgill.ca\">giovanna.badia@mcgill.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We hope to see you there!<\/p>\n<p><i>Image from <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-ca\/images\/results.aspx?qu=engineering&amp;ex=1&amp;AxInstalled=copy&amp;Download=MP900448494&amp;ext=JPG&amp;c=0#ai:MC900437095|\"><i>Microsoft Images<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a student in CIVE 432, CHEE 360, CHEE 462 or any other course in Engineering where you are writing a technical paper?\u00a0 If so, please join us for a hands-on workshop on Researching and Citing for Your Technical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/technical-paper-workshop\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[140],"class_list":["post-3393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-workshops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3393"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3403,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions\/3403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}