Years ago I said to myself: “There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.” I have learned with the passing of time that this, though true, is not the whole truth. The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at […]
Archives for October 2015
Driving from NYC to San Francisco with my grandmother while listening to Don McLean’s surprising NINE minute-long American Pie
Use ZOTERO to manage dissertation citations–Beta
Why Zotero is so useful for writing a dissertation
How to install Zotero
How to collect websites, pdf files, and an interface for adding books to a bibliography
How to organize by adding a collection at the Zotero Library interface screen
How to cite references
How to share citations and references;namely, how to insert the material into the Word document you are using to write your dissertation
How to select the right style manual when Zotero offers over 500 options
Ongoing discussion of related observations–provided in the form of notes marked as such. An item marked Note may distract the reader from the central focus of this user guide. Nonetheless, I hope each Note provides information you find useful.
Zotero also helps navigate in the Cloud.
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Eccentric Zotero user guide–Beta version
Why Zotero is so useful for writing a dissertation
I have not been able to find documentation which teaches me how to use Zotero. Zotero is an effective but complicate tool that removes the grunt work– notably citations and bibliographies-involved with writing a dissertation.
I am writing this manual to help me master Zotero for a technical paper I am completing. I am trying to master Zotero because it will help me complete my technical report. My experience using software to automate dissertation writing; primarily dissertation, but also other academic writing such as articles for the Journal of Electrical
The Day After My Birthday
Why do I continue? I like the deliberate ambiguity. “”Why do I continue?” teases on a number of levels (including causing me and my readers to wonder whether I am being rhetorical). After the teasing has worked its will, the reality remains. There is a story I want to tell from the 1961 birthday report. […]
Today I Am 68 Years Old
October 12, 2015; Monday; State College, PA; Borough of State College; Centre County; Fifth Congressional District of Pennsylvania; 6:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, same time zone as Metropolitan Washington, D.C. and NYC; 12:30 PM Toledo, Spain. [Important. Unimportant. Important. Unimportant.] In the Beginning When I awoke at 6 everything was dark. I was alone. […]
Today I am recovering from the flu and my memories; plus, there is the promise of the future
“Every day we look each other over. Everyone has cancer, and every day the radiation makes us sicker. I think of the waiting room as a betting parlor where we wonder, What are your odds? Since most of us are out-patients, we have to get dressed to travel to the hospital. Radiation is enervating; few […]