TTU List Advice from 10/25

Readings:

Selber and Johnson-Eiola "Central Works in Technical Communication" is best for TC

Johnson-Eilola and the Slack, Doak, and Miller, as well as Carolyn Miller
Bizzell and Herzberg's "The Rhetorical Tradition" is best for Rhet

Carolyn Miller's article "Genre as Social Action"

Online Tools:

Zotero

Web of Knowledge (Citation Index) at TTU Library; no access at the moment, so review main WoK site

EndNote

EndNoteWeb--a synthesized product combining WoK and EndNote

Cite While You Write--an EndNote plug-in that works with word processing

Links:

Several blogs added to the side bar already

Proto-Scholar on Maximizing Reading

I have found a couple of posts at the blog Proto-Scholar. The most useful one is a post on how to make the most of reading a non-fiction text and reviewing the general and textual contexts so you absorb the most in a most efficient fashion. Better to post a link than to summarize the already efficient text.

Using Delicious in Doctoral Work

This is a great article on how to use Delicious for research.

Establish an evolving set of tags, and make sure to use the tags in as uniform a manner as possible. When tagging, list the format (interview, video, mp3, etc.), the author, the subject(person or general), and key content words.

Stick to one-word tags.

In notes section, type up the summary.

Use only three or four tags if possible.

Here are some suggested research tags:

research:
• booklist - possible books to purchase or find in the library, or use this as a replacement for amazon wishlists.
• theory - books or articles on the use of theory
• vocabulary - quick access to important definitions with short summaries
• toread - I need to these articles very soon
• author - key thinker in my area of study
• recommended - a book, author, or site recommended to me by someone else