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Use ZOTERO to manage dissertation citations–Beta

October 22, 2015 by joel 1 Comment

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

My younger child Amelia, English teacher living in Spain (and amateur roller derby star) is engaged to be married

January 17, 2015 by joel 3 Comments

January 17, 2017 is an appropriate date to announce the engagement of Amelia Altalena Solkoff to Javier Blanco. The date marks the 1925 birthday of Amelia’s late paternal grandmother Miriam Pell Schmerler zt”l who was close to Amelia and her sister Joanna. Amelia teaches English in Pontevedra, Spain (on the Portuguese border) where she is also an enthusiastic […]

Handbook for Housing and Redevelopment Commissioners

October 12, 2014 by joel Leave a Comment

NAHRO

The difficulties an executive director encounters in managing an authority can be illustrated by an extreme, but actual, example.

The general manager (executive director) of the New York City Housing Authority, when asked about the role of the executive director, said:

“To be truthful with you—and it shows you the role—I just spent four hours in a meeting with a very tough group of tenants who were holding our staff against their will and I just negotiated a peaceful settlement.

“And I’m now going into a union meeting and the union’s threatening to walk out. The moon must be down. I would like to talk to you about it very much, but I can’t talk about it right now. Forgive me.”

Dr. Martin Luther King: “I Have a Dream” speech. August 28, 1963

December 23, 2013 by joel Leave a Comment

martin luther king at podium

 

My first cancer survival at age 28

October 19, 2013 by joel Leave a Comment

I have been describing my third cancer experience at age 65 when I was diagnosed in April in State College PA and had a successful operation in August in New York City at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.. This is an account of my first cancer survival at age 28. How did I survive cancer three times? How was I able to father two daughters after massive radiation treatment? Why was cancer treatment responsible for my becoming a paraplegic?
What was my emotional state during these three experiences which otherwise might have forced me to concentrate on death rather than enjoying life?
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Answers may be difficult to provide, but what follows is my first attempt to use language for the ineffable.

Two years after my experience with Hodgkin’s disease, my publication on the subject in The New York Times, my appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America, I received a book contract and proceeded to interview formally (receiving signed releases) and on tape the accounts of….

Today I am 66 years old

October 12, 2013 by joel 2 Comments

I am 66 years old today. I was listening to a George Strait song at midnight Troubadour. Troubadour is a song in which an older and wiser George Strait sings: “I still feel 25 most of the time./ I still raise a little cain with the boys./ Honky Tonks and pretty women, But Lord I’m […]

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Disability bathroom design

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Covid 19 has accelerated the need for a new utilitarian architecture: Architecture for the vulnerable ( like me)

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Covid-19 Architects: “We Who Are About to Die Salute You”

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Theo van Gogh’s The Interview

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