First of all, adding books or any type of item to your library of works cited/used is as simple as clicking an icon in the browser. Using Zotero has several advantages over adding bibliographic entries manually. In this blogpost, I will explain what Zotero is and how I used it in my workflow with MS Word although you can use other word processors like LibreOffice or NeoOffice. I have used Zotero and Microsoft Word in collaboration for my PhD thesis and it saved me a great amount of time. Reference management software like Zotero, Mendeley and EndNote makes this process easier and less time consuming. Yet, until it is reformed, academic writers need to spend considerable time to present all that information properly. It is a time-consuming practice and, as Patrick Dunleavy suggested, it is an old one that needs to be changed. For academic writers, it is much more of a challenge because we need to worry about giving proper references and citations according to the various rules for our target journals. It is a challenge to sit at the desk everyday and write the manuscript you have been working on for the last months or years.
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