Nov 11, 2020
Guidance in Preparing a Master’s Thesis at the Library 2020
OBJECTIVE.
As an annual event, the Rikkyo library and MPMA program jointly held the following non-credit special seminar in October 2020 which aims to give the 1st year students the guidance for preparing a Master’s thesis writing.
To achieve the infection prevention measures, all sessions were delivered online. We believe that students can commit to these workshops safely.
The sessions’ details are as follows.
and Set up the access to library online database (Workshop)
Presenter: Prof. Mitsuhiko KATAOKA
Target audience:
MPMA students who are not familiar with
- what the academic paper is.
- what the components of the masters' thesis are
- how important your data is
- how to find a research topic through literature survey
- how to access "EBSCOhost" from their off-campus PC
Presenter: RIKKYO Librarian
Target audience:
MPMA students who are not familiar with
- how to search the academic journal online
- how to use the search engine for academic literature in social science, EBSCOHost
Presenter: RIKKYO Librarian
Target audience:
MPMA students who are not familiar with
- how to use RefWorks, an online reference management tool
After the session we received the positive feedbacks from many students as follows.
To achieve the infection prevention measures, all sessions were delivered online. We believe that students can commit to these workshops safely.
The sessions’ details are as follows.
Session 1
Title: The first step for thesis writing: Role of literature survey: Data-driven approach (Lecture)and Set up the access to library online database (Workshop)
Presenter: Prof. Mitsuhiko KATAOKA
Target audience:
MPMA students who are not familiar with
- what the academic paper is.
- what the components of the masters' thesis are
- how important your data is
- how to find a research topic through literature survey
- how to access "EBSCOhost" from their off-campus PC
Session 2
Title: How to find journal article through online (Workshop)Presenter: RIKKYO Librarian
Target audience:
MPMA students who are not familiar with
- how to search the academic journal online
- how to use the search engine for academic literature in social science, EBSCOHost
Session 3
Title: How to manage the list of your references through RefWorks (Workshop)Presenter: RIKKYO Librarian
Target audience:
MPMA students who are not familiar with
- how to use RefWorks, an online reference management tool
After the session we received the positive feedbacks from many students as follows.
