Presentation Type
Interactive Presentation
Start Date
23-10-2020 11:25 AM
Description/Abstract
It was quite surprising that only a few undergraduate upper-level students were using citation management software on their research paper. It was more surprising that they were not aware that a lack of proper citations or cutting and pasting from other sources could be considered plagiarism in academic writings. They showed a significant reliance on direct quotations to avoid plagiarism. Cumbersome of manually adding citations in-text could be one of the reasons why undergraduate students omit referencing appropriate sources in-text as well as in the bibliography. EndNote is one of the citation management tools available for free to all current University of Central Florida (UCF) faculty, staff, and students. The UCF library is offering EndNote Workshops multiple times each semester. This presentation will include the usages of the EndNote software among undergraduate students, improvement of the Turnitin similarity score, and students’ feedback about adapting software after introducing EndNote software in my research-intensive Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases.
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Addressing Research Ethics by Adapting Citation Management Software in Research Projects
It was quite surprising that only a few undergraduate upper-level students were using citation management software on their research paper. It was more surprising that they were not aware that a lack of proper citations or cutting and pasting from other sources could be considered plagiarism in academic writings. They showed a significant reliance on direct quotations to avoid plagiarism. Cumbersome of manually adding citations in-text could be one of the reasons why undergraduate students omit referencing appropriate sources in-text as well as in the bibliography. EndNote is one of the citation management tools available for free to all current University of Central Florida (UCF) faculty, staff, and students. The UCF library is offering EndNote Workshops multiple times each semester. This presentation will include the usages of the EndNote software among undergraduate students, improvement of the Turnitin similarity score, and students’ feedback about adapting software after introducing EndNote software in my research-intensive Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases.