This Week's lecture was on using Endnote. Endnote is a program to help you with referencing correctly, both in-text and in reference lists. Endnote can be used; as a Standalone program, or Integrated into MS Word. Endnote is a database which stores your references in any style you need (eg. APA 5th). You basically type all your information about the Journal article or book in each category and save it as an APA reference. Endnote will put all your references in alphabetical order so it will be easier to find. Endnote is a very easy way to store references so you don't misplace or lose them.
Tutorial
I wasn't there for the tutorial this week so I had to do all my tutorial work at home. One of the hardest of our tutorial worksheets. I found Endnote to be very confussing when setting up your first library, but once I knew what I was doing it was quite simple. Setting up my Endnote library using Workshop Supplemental was a really time consuming task. I found it difficult to tell the difference between a Journal Article and book by just looking at them. After I figured it out it was pretty straight forward. My references were all correct to the ECU APA referencing guide.
Resources
Guide to Endnote v9 @ ECU is a resource about how to set up endnote and how it works. Endnote is used a lot by undergrad students to help them save time when writing an essay or report. Endnote is a guide to help students reference their work correctly and at a proper standard.
This resource shows you step by step how to build your Endnote library. It starts by showing you how to save Endnote library and you should always save an Endnote library as the same name as your document, so you can locate it easier. When adding a reference you always need to make sure you put in the right reference type eg. Book, Journal Article and website, because all types are different and when it comes to putting them in an end text reference it will leave out some important information.
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