UC Campus Workshops

The Learning Assistance Center no longer provides study strategies workshops.  Students needing assistance can  contact our front desk at 556-3244, to schedule an Academic Coaching appointment. 



Langsam Library offers 4 workshops to help students with research and writing papers:

Capstone Research Review.  Are you a senior faced with finishing off a major research paper as part of your capstone or senior seminar?  Could you use a refresher on key resources, strategies for finding reliable and scholarly information, can collecting primary sources materials?  Then this workshop is for you.  This one-hour workshop will help you organizer your ideas, review key indexes, and show you how to connect with the specialized resources in your subject area.

Date: Thursday, October 25th, 12:30-1:30 PM, Langsam Library Room 462
Presenter: Jane Carlin, Head of DAAP Library
Duration: 50 minutes
Primary Audience: Juniors/Seniors
Outcomes:  After completing this workshop students will be able to:
1. Identify at least five scholarly journals in their field of study
2. Identify at least three major research tools in their field of study
3. Complete accurate footnotes and bibliographies
4. Effectively analyze and compare information
5. Create a well-developed thesis supported by accurate and reliable information

Cite What You Write.  Confused about plagiarism?  Worried that 'copying and pasting' will get you into trouble?  This workshop will help you understand what constitutes plagiarism, and will introduce some tools and tricks for citing sources correctly. 

Date: Tuesday, November 13, 12:30 - 1:30 PM, Langsam Library Room 462
Duration: 50 minutes
Primary Audience:  Undergraduates
Outcomes:  In this workshop students will learn to:
1. Recognize plagiarism
2. Recognize the difference between a quotation and a paraphrase
3. Create and credit a paraphrase
4. Locate online sources for citation formats
5. Use some of the citation tools embedded in UL online databases

HELP! I need 3 articles for my research paper.  You just received your first college research assignment and your professor specifically said not to use encyclopedias or web sites as sources.  Where do you go?  This workshop will introduce some of the most popular and easy to use library databases, and help you learn to search them efficiently.

Date: Wednesday, October 24, 11-12 PM, Langsam Library Room 462
Duration: 50 minutes
Primary Audience: Undergraduates, primarily freshman/sophomores taking the English composition sequence.
Outcomes:  In this workshop students will learn how to effectively use some of the library's most comprehensive and popular article databases in order to:
1. Find and narrow a topic
2. Find opposing and supporting views on a topic
3. Understand the difference between scholarly (peer-reviewed_ and popular sources
4. Understand the importance of keywords
5. Retrieve (print, email, or download) online articles from a selection of databases via the University Libraries website.

INFOBASICS (Everything You Wanted to Know About UC Libraries in 50 Minutes or Less).

Date: Tuesday, October 16th, 12:30-1:30, Langsam Library Room 462
Primary Audience: New students, undergrads, new faculty, transfer students 

Please click here to register for Langsam Library workshops.