Core Skills

The sections below are basic skills recommended for graduate students in all fields.

Google Scholar Advanced Search

How to use Google Advanced Search and Google Scholar advanced search to check your English grammar and writing style. Google Scholar searches are based on analyzing documents in your own field.

Adobe Acrobat Reader Advanced Search

How to use Adobe Acrobat Reader advanced search to check your English grammar and writing style based on analyzing documents in your own field.

How to use the Track Changes and Comment functions of MS WORD

These functions allow you to insert comments and see the changes when another person edits a document.

The tutorials below include advanced functions like printing only comments and not all insertions and deletions and choosing which reviewer's comments to view.

English text with Korean OS screenshots (1.2 MB PDF file)

http://www.hanyangowl.org/media/computerassisted/2007mswordediting.pdf

Software to support writing

ENDNOTE reference managing software

If you are a Hanyang Student, are you using endnote www.endnote.com reference managing software ? Check the site licensed software download section in your Hanyang EZHUB account. The university has a site license.

The software lets you manage your references and automatically formats them in the correct style once you have inputed the information. Many journal article sites allow you to download the references for an article into this software. It will save you hours and hours of time over the course of your research.

Cafe site has a discussion in Korean.

http://cafe.naver.com/endnoteseminar

InstantText

Software that storage common terms and expressions. Useful for medical or technical writing that is repetitive in methods, etc.

http://www.fitaly.com/index.htm

Check my words toolbar for MS Word

http://mws.ust.hk/cmw/index.php

Microsoft eslassistant

It is still in beta version and not developed enough yet, but you might want to check this tool out next year.

http://www.eslassistant.com/

General research skills

The following sections are suggested resources for research writing

General Research Skills

Finding journal articles

Crossref allows you to search across journals from different publishing companies. It is good for the beginning stages of research on a new topic as you narrow down your search. It may produce results that are too wide but I find that university library searches across databases tend to be even wider while searching only a single publisher like sciencedirect.com may miss important articles. I also find the google format easier to read than most library homepage interfaces.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/crossref.html

Theses and Dissertations

Find abstracts, samples, and full text of North American Dissertations and Theses (from Hanyang server)

Korean site

http://ddod.riss4u.net/ddodservice/index.jsp

 US site with Korean interface

http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?RQT=306&DBId=G647

Mind Mapping

Mind Mapping is a powerful thinking tool to organize your writing, to review your reading and to study for exams. The following link will explain how.

http://www.jcu.edu.au/studying/services/studyskills/mindmap/index.html

More background

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindmapping

Concept Mapping--Mind Maps with Verbs!

A free alternative to mindmapping that allows users to show the logical relations between items. http://cmap.ihmc.us/

List of mindmapping software

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mind_Mapping_software

Free programs

I use www.mindmanager.com but it is not free. However, it is smoothly integrated with MS Office and exports to HTML and PDF making it worth it.

Online Collaboration Tools for Research and Online Bookmarking

Share links with member of your lab or those with the same research interests

http://del.icio.us/

http://www.connotea.org/

http://www.2collab.com/

http://scitation.aip.org/

Screencasting

http://www.jingproject.com/

http://www.screenr.com

Can include web clippings

http://www.zotero.org

http://www.evernote.com

For Firefox browsers

http://www.hyperwords.net/

Online collaborative writing tool

http://www.writeboard.com/

Resources for Doing Research

InstantText

Software that stores common terms and expressions. Useful for medical or technical writing that is repetitive in methods, etc.

http://www.fitaly.com/index.htm

Dictionaries and reference materials

Importance of "Backtranslation" in bilingual dictionaries

When using a Korean to English dictionary, please remember to "back-translate" a word from Korean to English before making a choice. We can see from this link that there are many different Koreans for the English word "Besides," but many of them are not correct for academic writing and the first word of a sentence in English.

http://endic.naver.com/search.nhn?query_utf=besides&kind=keyword

Other common translations errors from Korean to English include

"Besides, on the other hand, on the contrary, and especially."

Visual dictionaries

Visualization dictionary shows the relationships between words. Really innovative.

http://www.visuwords.com/?word=density

Visual Thesaurus (requires subscription after trial)

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/

Visual dictionary, somewhat basic, but includes pronunciation audio files.

http://visual.merriam-webster.com/science.php

English to Korean

Scroll-over English to Korean online integrated mini-dictionary from www.daum.net

http://alldic.daum.net/dic/view_top.do?t__nil_searchbox=btn&nil_id=5

See also developments in Google Translation tools.

General

Well intregrated general dictionary and thesaurus with British and American English.

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/

Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/default.asp?dict=P

Idiom Dictionary Cambridge

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/default.asp?dict=I

http://www.learnersdictionary.com/blog.php

Word of the day

http://www.learnersdictionary.com/lwod.php

Reference works

Integrates a number of encyclopedias including wikipedia

http://www.answers.com/topic/rayleigh-scattering

Science dictionaries

http://www.answers.com/main/science.jsp

Organizing Your Research

A free tool to schedule meetings online

http://meetomatic.com/calendar.php

A free (and upgradable) online survey tool that reports statistics

http://www.surveymonkey.com/

Software for Qualitative Research

Free open-source audio editing software for interviews

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

A free (and upgradable) online survey tool that reports statistics

http://www.surveymonkey.com/

Quantitative Research software

Impact Factors and the Science Citation Index (SCI)

Tutorial on how to evaluate the quality of journals

http://scientific.thomson.com/tutorials/jcr4/

Understanding the impact factor of journals

http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/jifchicago2005.pdf

Problems with SCI INDEX and impact factors in journals

http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/08/google-scholar-as-new-source-for.html

Research Methods

Reseach Methods

An innovative way to use indexes to find new areas of research

http://thomsonreuters.com/business_units/scientific/free/essays/linking/

Corpus Linguistics

Free corpora (websites to help you analyze the patterns of English grammar and usage)

http://corpus.byu.edu/

Software for analyzing language

http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/software.html

http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/

Range program for finding specialist vocabulary.

http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/research/

Corpus-based grammar exercises

http://www.lextutor.ca/corpus_grammar/

Corpus of American English

 Large, balanced corpus http://www.americancorpus.org/