International Students Workshops

As a Graduate Reference Assistant, one of my responsibilities was to create and lead various workshops within the library. The most frequent of these were the International Students Workshops wherein we would teach new international students how to navigate and utilize the library as well as on other topics relevant to the library that may be different compared to their home country, for example plagiarism.

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Plagiarism

In the Spring of 2017, I and another GRA along with a librarian, created a new workshop based on demand about academic dishonesty and plagiarism. The research for this workshop along with the basic formatting had been conducted the semester before by the entire GRA/TA cohort at Ellis Library in preparation for the completely new workshop. We focused the presentation on what the University of Missouri's definition of plagiarism was and how that definition was most likely different from the definition in their home country. We then looked at identifying different common types of plagiarism and how to avoid them. The workshop ended with an exercise on identifying the different types of plagiarism in a short essay and then working on how to fix it. This workshop was presented three times, including a modified version for the general student populace.

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Finding Articles

In the Fall of 2015, I was a part of the "Finding Articles" workshop for the International Students Workshop series along with two fellow GRAs. As a part of this workshop we focused on the different databases that the library offered, and the best ways to utilize them. For my portion of the workshop, I focused on building a search string and then how to use limiters and other search methods to refine a search. This workshop was presented twice.