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Where to Publish: Finding the Right Venue to Publish Your Research (Recurring Event)
Sept. 19, 2019 at 5:30 p.m. until Oct. 16, 2019, 6:30 p.m. Graduate Student Center: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 213
How do you decide which journals are the best fit for your manuscript? Are there other potential publishing venues that might be a good fit for your research? This workshop covers criteria to consider when planning where to submit your work for publication. We will look at factors like acceptance rates, audience, indexing, cost to publish, and open access, among ...
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Endnote and Refworks: Citing Made Easy – Online (Recurring Event)
Sept. 23, 2019 at 10 a.m. until 11 a.m. Online
Citation Management Tools allow you to dedicate more time to research! Join us to learn how to export citations from library databases, organize citations, generate bibliographies, and format citations in a Word document. Endnote & RefWorks can help make managing your references and formatting citations easy! This online webinar will briefly introduce the basics for BOTH products. Students must register ...
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Apps to Help Organize Your Research Life (Recurring Event)
Sept. 24, 2019 at 1 p.m. until 2 p.m. Graduate Student Center: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 213
Do you ever wonder if there is a great app out there that you are missing out on? Need help staying organized, taking notes, or need a better way to communicate with classmates over shared projects? Well look no further as this session will introduce helpful and important apps that all grad students should love and use! We will cover ...
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How It Works For You: Networking Techniques (Recurring Event)
Sept. 25, 2019 at 4:30 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. Graduate Student Center: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 213
Overcome fears and anxiety related to networking by using outcome-based thinking. Learn what to do before, during and after a networking event. Students must register for all workshops through their myUCF Student Center under Graduate Students then Pathways to Success.
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Pay Yourself First and Other Budgeting Tips
Sept. 26, 2019 at 11 a.m. until noon Graduate Student Center: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 213
Learn the importance of having a budget and how it can help you earn more money. Students must register for all workshops through their myUCF Student Center under Graduate Students then Pathways to Success.
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Optimizing Your Online Presence as a Researcher (Recurring Event)
Sept. 26, 2019 at 4:30 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. Graduate Student Center: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 213
Learn more about evaluating research impacts and managing your online research profile. This session will cover citation metrics and measuring your publishing impact. Citation metrics provide quantitative data used to evaluate the impact of a scholar’s research. Learn about methods and tools to obtain citation counts and impact data (ISI Web of Science, Google Scholar, and others), and metrics to ...
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Author Rights: Understanding and Protecting Your Rights (Recurring Event)
Sept. 26, 2019 at 5:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. Graduate Student Center: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 213
Learn to be a savvy author! Do you know that all rights to a work are often assigned to publishers when a manuscript is accepted? Are there other options that allow you to retain the copyright of your work? This workshop will provide an overview of general copyright and what author rights mean to you, as a researcher. We will ...
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Ethical and Legal Issues in Teaching Workshop (Recurring Event)
Sept. 27, 2019 at 1 p.m. until 3 p.m. Graduate Student Center: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 213
A discussion of various issues that may and do arise in college and university-level teaching, including disruptive student behavior, academic dishonesty, FERPA, your responsibilities as an instructor or Teaching Assistant. Also included as a central feature is the place of the UCF Creed and UCF Golden Rule as guiding principles. Students must register for all workshops through their myUCF Student ...
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Mentoring Undergraduate Researchers: Graduate Student Opportunities (Recurring Event)
Oct. 1, 2019 at 2 p.m. until 3 p.m. Graduate Student Center: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 213
Serving as informal mentors to undergraduate researchers is a great opportunity to expand your experience and research productivity. This workshop will explore best practices in research mentoring and also share services, resources, and opportunities UCF provides to undergraduate students. Students must register for all workshops through their myUCF Student Center under Graduate Students then Pathways to Success.
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Academic Job Search - Webinar
Oct. 2, 2019 at 12 p.m. until 1 p.m. Online
Are you prepared to begin the job search process? This workshop will provide a comprehensive overview of the academic job search. We will discuss the job search timeline, pre-application and application process, as well as expectations of faculty interviews. Students must register for all workshops through their myUCF Student Center under Graduate Students then Pathways to Success. The webinar link ...
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Three Minute Thesis Information Session and Pitch Workshop (Recurring Event)
Oct. 3, 2019 at 3 p.m. until 4 p.m. Graduate Student Center: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 213
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Preparation Workshop offers an overview of the competition and training for communicating your research to a non-specialist audience. This workshop will delve into components of a prize-worthy pitch, walk through examples of successful 3MT pitches, and teach participants about “Presentation Zen.” Workshops are open to all graduate students and are a helpful resource for those ...
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Study Strategies that Work
Oct. 8, 2019 at 2 p.m. until 3 p.m. Graduate Student Center: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 213
Study smarter, not harder! Most graduate students feel overwhelmed as they try to balance studying, teaching, research, and other commitments. Learn how to maximize your study time by implementing learning strategies that actually work. In this presentation, we will share research-proven approaches that promote learning and debunk the myths of most-commonly used but highly ineffective study practices. Students must register ...
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Introduction to Data Documentation
Oct. 9, 2019 at 12 p.m. until 1 p.m. Graduate Student Center: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 213
Join us for an introduction to data documentation and metadata. Learn basics about research data, datasets and data documentation for data sharing, re-use and long-term preservation. This session introduces best practices and recommendations for documenting research data, including types of documentation needed, appropriate data formats, kinds of materials to be collected in the research lifecycle, and especially data documentation at ...
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Building Your Online Brand
Oct. 9, 2019 at 4:30 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. Graduate Student Center: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 213
Take your job search online. Learn effective strategies for searching and networking online with systems including Handshake, LinkedIn, and other social networking sites. Students must register for all workshops through their myUCF Student Center under Graduate Students then Pathways to Success.
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Presentation Skills (Recurring Event)
Oct. 10, 2019 at 10 a.m. until 11 a.m. Graduate Student Center: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 213
Does the idea of giving a presentation freak you out? There's good news and bad news. Bad news – presentations are unavoidable in your courses and in your future career path. Good news – presentation skills are something you can easily improve! This 45-minute session will provide some tips, tricks, and ideas for how to become a better presenter. There ...
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Credit 101
Oct. 10, 2019 at 3 p.m. until 4 p.m. Graduate Student Center: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 213
What does it take to earn a high credit score, what actually affects your credit, who’s looking at it? Find out about the myths involving your credit score and how to build and maintain successful credit. Students must register for all workshops through their myUCF Student Center under Graduate Students then Pathways to Success.
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Planning Poster Presentations
Oct. 10, 2019 at 4:30 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. Graduate Student Center: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 213
Planning a research poster session? Learn the basics of poster design and tips for editing free PowerPoint poster templates. This session reviews poster elements for layout, graphics, and printing, and includes examples of well-designed posters. Participants are encouraged to bring their laptop to begin creating a poster for hands on practice. Students must register for all workshops through their myUCF ...
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Fostering Collaborations and Navigating Different Personality Types in Graduate School
Oct. 15, 2019 at 2 p.m. until 3 p.m. Graduate Student Center: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 213
Being successful in graduate school will often depend on your ability to communicate well, have good social skills, and work effectively as a member of a team. In this interactive presentation, we will discuss how you can foster collaborations in graduate school and utilize social learning opportunities. Through self-exploration, we will explore how navigating different personality types in graduate school ...
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Library Research and Literature Review Strategies (Recurring Event)
Oct. 16, 2019 at 12 p.m. until 1 p.m. Graduate Student Center: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 213
What strategies are you using to conduct literature searches for your research or projects? This session highlights effective strategies to locate related sources using citation tracking and search strategies, tips to customize Google Scholar, and options to organize sources and stay updated on publications. Please bring a laptop to follow along with the presentation. Consider also attending the related topic, ...
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Smart Answers to Tough Questions: Advanced Interviewing - Webinar
Oct. 16, 2019 at 12 p.m. until 1 p.m. Online
Distinguish between what the employer is asking and what the employer really wants to know! Develop strategies that will help you answer tough behavior based questions. Students must register for all workshops through their myUCF Student Center under Graduate Students then Pathways to Success. The webinar link will be included in the confirmation email.
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Where to Publish: Finding the Right Venue to Publish Your Research (Recurring Event)
Oct. 16, 2019 at 1 p.m. until 2 p.m. Graduate Student Center: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 213
How do you decide which journals are the best fit for your manuscript? Are there other potential publishing venues that might be a good fit for your research? This workshop covers criteria to consider when planning where to submit your work for publication. We will look at factors like acceptance rates, audience, indexing, cost to publish, and open access, among ...
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A Practical Guide to Preventing Plagiarism
Oct. 16, 2019 at 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. Graduate Student Center: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 213
This session will outline ethical writing guidelines and define commonly found plagiarism practices. The student will gain an understanding on how to prevent plagiarizing another person’s work and learn the proper use of citations when drafting research papers and journals. Students must register for all workshops through their myUCF Student Center under Graduate Students then Pathways to Success.
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Authorship, Credit and Collaborative Scholarship and Research: Ethical Pitfalls to Avoid – CORE (Recurring Event)
Oct. 18, 2019 at 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. Graduate Student Center: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 213
This workshop will help to clarify rules governing authorship of peer-reviewed publications, with particular focus on archival journals. We will identify issues and decision making with respect to authorship through the instructor’s personal experiences and example case studies. Students must register for all workshops through their myUCF Student Center under Graduate Students then Pathways to Success.
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Presentation Skills (Recurring Event)
Oct. 22, 2019 at 10 a.m. until 11 a.m. Graduate Student Center: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 213
Does the idea of giving a presentation freak you out? There's good news and bad news. Bad news – presentations are unavoidable in your courses and in your future career path. Good news – presentation skills are something you can easily improve! This 45-minute session will provide some tips, tricks, and ideas for how to become a better presenter. There ...
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Apps to Help Organize Your Research Life (Recurring Event)
Oct. 22, 2019 at 2 p.m. until 3 p.m. Graduate Student Center: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 213
Do you ever wonder if there is a great app out there that you are missing out on? Need help staying organized, taking notes, or need a better way to communicate with classmates over shared projects? Well look no further as this session will introduce helpful and important apps that all grad students should love and use! We will cover ...
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Where to Publish: Finding the Right Venue to Publish Your Research (Recurring Event)

Endnote and Refworks: Citing Made Easy – Online (Recurring Event)

Apps to Help Organize Your Research Life (Recurring Event)

How It Works For You: Networking Techniques (Recurring Event)

Optimizing Your Online Presence as a Researcher (Recurring Event)

Author Rights: Understanding and Protecting Your Rights (Recurring Event)

Ethical and Legal Issues in Teaching Workshop (Recurring Event)

Mentoring Undergraduate Researchers: Graduate Student Opportunities (Recurring Event)

Three Minute Thesis Information Session and Pitch Workshop (Recurring Event)

Presentation Skills (Recurring Event)

Library Research and Literature Review Strategies (Recurring Event)

Where to Publish: Finding the Right Venue to Publish Your Research (Recurring Event)

Authorship, Credit and Collaborative Scholarship and Research: Ethical Pitfalls to Avoid – CORE (Recurring Event)

Presentation Skills (Recurring Event)

Apps to Help Organize Your Research Life (Recurring Event)