ARW 4/22 Response

ARW 4/22 Response

On 4/22, we had a detailed lecture on how to use a citation program called Zotero. I had a mixed feeling of excitement and anxiety because I had never used this program before at high school in U.S. My teachers have always told us to use Easybib or manually type in information to create citation page, which was tedious for all students. Rab first told us to open up Firefox because Zotero is particularly compatible to Firefox.

He showed us how to make citations for a variety of sources, such as books, journals, newspaper articles, websites, movies, Youtube videos, or even an interview with someone else. For citing any of these sources, there was one thing in common; I could find a little icon next to URL and by clicking it, I got to choose which sources I would like to add to the list of references. One thing Rab told us to be careful with is that some citations are missing an information on where that resource was published so we have to add it manually, which is not a big deal, considering how much revision was required for Easybib. At last, we learned how to export those citations on google doc.

I thought this lecture was very helpful and taught me significance of using this program. As soon as I got home afterschool, I downloaded the program into my laptop. I am excited to use this program for research paper assignment.