The lecture introduced and discussed the university tool EndNote. EndNote is a program that helps sort out your referencing and distinguish a journal reference to a conference reference. Endnote is also know as reference manager and bibliography maker. A positive about EndNote is that it is integrated into MS Word. The reason the university encourages students to use EndNote is so that they can keep a track of a growing number of references. EndNote is able to reference in a number of styles and types of referencing. The main key points we learnt from the lecture was that don't except to 'get it' the first time you try EndNote, but to play around with it and get use to it over a period of time. Begin to use EndNote as a standalone application- this way you can keep a track of your references. Always back up (save) your library, not just on your desktop, but use a USB thumb drive or other forms of saving work. The use of EndNote will help simplify and customise your references instead of a bunch of cluttered mixed up references.
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In the workshop we were asked to get straight into our workshop week six task. The task was to open up EndNote and follow the instructions to how to place some references in EndNote correctly. We were asked to copy 8 different references into EndNote and reference them according to the style or type that they were. We were asked to change the formatting to the ECU's Standard which was APA 5th. We were asked to refer to ECU referencing guide booklet to identify what each style of reference was. A reference with a volume and issue number were usually a journal or magazine article. Most of the references consisted of journal and magazine articles. We were heavily instructed to back up our referencing work on the thumb drive. This workshop really equips you with the tools on how to reference and back up your work properly.
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