EndNote 1-Day lesson plan
The sage of EndNote: Amy
*Note: this class is designed to be taught as a single-session, 1.5 hour class
Objectives
General:
- Gather and manage reference materials
- Create and format bibliographies
Specific:
- Create a new library
- Change citation style
- Organize references
- Export Citations from web searches
- Importing PDFs
- Use find full text feature
- Use terms lists
- Enter references manually
- Cite while you write
- Format bibliography
- Editing citations
- Understand benefits of endnote web
Outline
Hook
Intro:
- Names, positions, goals for class, etc.
Getting Started
Export citations from web sources
Different for every database
You can adjust these settings under preferences to increase the chances that EndNote will download full texts for your sources.
Click on the Find Full Text section
Check the OpenURL option
Fill out the OpenURL Path and the Authenticate with URL
The URLs can be found on the library website here
Click Apply or OK
The next time you click the button to download full texts, a popup will ask you to authenticate using a BYU netID and password. After you do so, full texts for your references should download easily.
Conclusion
- Recap
- Next time
- Office/Facebook
Example Hook
Show them a completed paper with citations/bibliography and talk about how much time it saves if you don’t have to do it all by hand
Example Questions
Why is it important to put references from online searches into groups?
Name two ways to create a group.
Why would you want to import PDFs into Endnote?
Name one way to cite as you write?
What is an advantage of using endnote web?
Example Activities and Files
Students will make and import references that will serve as practice files