Title: d) Preparing for Research Writing
Course: CJ601-01:Seminar in the Administration of Criminal Justice > Section: Preparing for Graduate Study & for the Course

As you proceed through your academic journey, you'll be reading a lot of academic literature (e.g. peer-reviewed journal articles, academic books, etc.). In addition to reading these pieces, you'll be asked to discuss the findings of the work, think about how the work relates to/builds on/contends with other academic work. Moreover, you'll inevitably be asked to write about the stuff you read -- and as such, you'll have to cite these works as references.

This means you've got to have a good system to organize all the pieces you read, in a way that enables you to write about them.

Therefore, to prepare for what is to come, in this section of the module, you'll be introduced to several reference management programs, and learn how to download and install a free and widely-used reference management system program: Zotero.