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Managing your information: a workshop for first-year Ph.D. students Session 2 Emma Coonan Cambridge University Library
Course content Session 1: managing found/published information Session 2: managing the information you generate store – organise –  retrieve – synthesize
Session content Active reading: notemaking and recording  Creativity vs. project management Keeping track: road maps, the big picture and lightbulb moments Learning styles: how do you work?
Reflection
Active reading “ The art of reading is to skip judiciously”   ~ P.G. Hamerton
Step 1: Why are you reading? http://sfl.emu.edu.tr/dept/alo/active4.htm To understand a concept? To gather specific facts? To identify the structure of an author’s argument? To find alternative views so you can challenge an argument?
Step 2: What’s in it for me? What’s relevant/useful for my own argument? What other work does this piece mesh with? What lightbulb moments does it spark? What might be a blind alley (a white rabbit)?
Step 3: Notemaking and futureproofing ‘ Gut’ your text! Highlight, underline, strikethrough; annotate, use symbols Leave yourself clues about the content, e.g. on the cover page/in your referencing system
Useful tools: highlighter and pen PDF-Xchange Viewer/Foxit/interactive software
Step 4: Extracting the best bits Consider  where  and  how  to store the useful extracts:  referencing software text document index cards other … ? How will you find the relevant bits again –  quickly and easily?
Base document (Teresa)
http://www.open.ac.uk/skillsforstudy/index-cards.php Index cards
Mind mapping
Step 4: Extracting and futureproofing How will  you  distinguish between: direct quotation paraphrase  your own ideas ?
Activity: interrogate your text Choose an approach ….  colour-code, mark up and annotate by  type  of information/what’s in it for you produce a 25-word summary think of two questions that Jeremy Paxman would ask the author represent the argument as a mind map
Information issues
Tools for keeping on track  Alerting services Research diary Road map Big picture
Alerting services Most citation databases offer RSS or email alerts  Set up a profile and save useful searches ‘ Drip-feed’ of information keeps you up-to-date but not overwhelmed Researcher blogs
Research diary “ The research diary can be seen as a melting pot for all of the different ingredients of a research project - prior experience, observations, readings, ideas - and a means of capturing the resulting interplay of elements.” (www.biad.uce.ac.uk/research/rti/riadm/issue1/research_diaries.htm) The "vehicle for ordered creativity"  (Schatzman & Strauss 1973: 105)
Road map Fundamental structure of your research project:  why – how – what? Why  are you doing what you’re doing? How  have you chosen to answer the question? What  have you found out? What does this mean? Giles Yeo, Clinical Biochemistry/Wolfson College
Road map Fundamental structure of your research project:  why – how – what? Why  are you doing what you’re doing? How  have you chosen to answer the question? What  have you found out? What does this mean? Research proposal
Road map (Jamie)
Road map: time management
Road map: time management
Big picture (Sandra)
Big picture http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/journalismlabs/2009/05/
Learning styles
Final tips Where to start Time and space Help and support
Where to start
Where to start …  not  with the introduction! Road map/research proposal should give you structure  Keeping a research diary and making summaries will get you writing Write modularly, then link up chunks
Time and space Time of day : creative thinking vs. repetitive work (e.g. proofing, bibliography checking) Time out  to relax and reflect Ph.D. research is a  snapshot in time  – not never-ending! Working space:   the  right environment  for you Enough room for a  spatial overview  of your work
Help and support University sources: GDP, CPPD, Skills Portal, Graduate Union Supervisors, research groups, librarians Friends and peers Online forums, e.g. Graduate Junction (www.graduatejunction.net), Postgraduate Toolbox (www.postgraduatetoolbox.net)
Thank you!

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Managing your information: session 2

  • 1. Managing your information: a workshop for first-year Ph.D. students Session 2 Emma Coonan Cambridge University Library
  • 2. Course content Session 1: managing found/published information Session 2: managing the information you generate store – organise – retrieve – synthesize
  • 3. Session content Active reading: notemaking and recording Creativity vs. project management Keeping track: road maps, the big picture and lightbulb moments Learning styles: how do you work?
  • 5. Active reading “ The art of reading is to skip judiciously” ~ P.G. Hamerton
  • 6. Step 1: Why are you reading? http://sfl.emu.edu.tr/dept/alo/active4.htm To understand a concept? To gather specific facts? To identify the structure of an author’s argument? To find alternative views so you can challenge an argument?
  • 7. Step 2: What’s in it for me? What’s relevant/useful for my own argument? What other work does this piece mesh with? What lightbulb moments does it spark? What might be a blind alley (a white rabbit)?
  • 8. Step 3: Notemaking and futureproofing ‘ Gut’ your text! Highlight, underline, strikethrough; annotate, use symbols Leave yourself clues about the content, e.g. on the cover page/in your referencing system
  • 9. Useful tools: highlighter and pen PDF-Xchange Viewer/Foxit/interactive software
  • 10. Step 4: Extracting the best bits Consider where and how to store the useful extracts: referencing software text document index cards other … ? How will you find the relevant bits again – quickly and easily?
  • 14. Step 4: Extracting and futureproofing How will you distinguish between: direct quotation paraphrase your own ideas ?
  • 15. Activity: interrogate your text Choose an approach …. colour-code, mark up and annotate by type of information/what’s in it for you produce a 25-word summary think of two questions that Jeremy Paxman would ask the author represent the argument as a mind map
  • 17. Tools for keeping on track Alerting services Research diary Road map Big picture
  • 18. Alerting services Most citation databases offer RSS or email alerts Set up a profile and save useful searches ‘ Drip-feed’ of information keeps you up-to-date but not overwhelmed Researcher blogs
  • 19. Research diary “ The research diary can be seen as a melting pot for all of the different ingredients of a research project - prior experience, observations, readings, ideas - and a means of capturing the resulting interplay of elements.” (www.biad.uce.ac.uk/research/rti/riadm/issue1/research_diaries.htm) The "vehicle for ordered creativity" (Schatzman & Strauss 1973: 105)
  • 20. Road map Fundamental structure of your research project: why – how – what? Why are you doing what you’re doing? How have you chosen to answer the question? What have you found out? What does this mean? Giles Yeo, Clinical Biochemistry/Wolfson College
  • 21. Road map Fundamental structure of your research project: why – how – what? Why are you doing what you’re doing? How have you chosen to answer the question? What have you found out? What does this mean? Research proposal
  • 23. Road map: time management
  • 24. Road map: time management
  • 28. Final tips Where to start Time and space Help and support
  • 30. Where to start … not with the introduction! Road map/research proposal should give you structure Keeping a research diary and making summaries will get you writing Write modularly, then link up chunks
  • 31. Time and space Time of day : creative thinking vs. repetitive work (e.g. proofing, bibliography checking) Time out to relax and reflect Ph.D. research is a snapshot in time – not never-ending! Working space: the right environment for you Enough room for a spatial overview of your work
  • 32. Help and support University sources: GDP, CPPD, Skills Portal, Graduate Union Supervisors, research groups, librarians Friends and peers Online forums, e.g. Graduate Junction (www.graduatejunction.net), Postgraduate Toolbox (www.postgraduatetoolbox.net)