SMU Libraries offers the following workshops regularly throughout the academic year. Request a specific workshop at a specific time.
General Research
| How to Read a Scholarly Article - Sciences and Social Sciences | Tips for saving time and being more engaged when reading articles |
| Finding Balanced News in a Biased World | Learn strategies for verifying news stories and discuss aspects of news media bias |
| Conducting a Literature Review | Learn the steps for planning a literature review and strategies for finding and evaluating sources |
| MLA Made Easy | A 30-minute overview for citation formatting and bibliography creation in MLA style |
| APA Made Easy | A 30-minute overview for citation formatting and bibliography creation in APA style |
| Citation Management: RefWorks | Learn how to gather, sort, and generate citations using RefWorks |
| Citation Management: Zotero | Learn how to gather, sort, and generate citations using Zotero |
Business Research
| Bloomberg Basics | First step in accessing vast amounts of financial markets data |
| Accounting Research | Locate company financial information and accounting standards |
| International Business Research | Locate country profiles, company information, and market research |
| Investment Research | Research stocks, bonds, and mutual funds using workplace tools |
| Company Research | Discover information for all sizes and types of companies |
| Demographic and Consumer Research | Find demographic and psychographic data for geographic areas |
| Career Management Research | Add impact to your interviews using company and industry insights |
| Industry and Market Research | Access market research reports and industry overviews |
| Moving Beyond Google for Business Research | Learn effective strategies to improve your search results |
| Company and Industry Research | Find information on all types of companies and their industries |
Theology Research and Writing
| Surviving & Thriving at Perkins | Tips for working efficiently & effectively in seminary |
| Introduction to Canvas | Intro to SMU's Learning Management System |
| Tackling ALL that Reading | How to get through the large volume of texts that seminary requires |
| Using SMU Library Search | How to get books, ebooks, articles, films and more |
| Accordance Basics | Intro to Accordance Bible Software for Exegesis |
| Writing Topic Sentences | How to write topic sentences to keep your paragraphs on point |
| ATLA Religion Database | How to find articles, essays, and more in the ATLA Religion Database |
| Using Turabian/Chicago Humanities | When, where, why & how to cite using Turabian/Chicago Humanities |
| Writing That First Seminary Paper | How scholarly writing differs from writing sermons |
| About Plagiarism | What we mean by plagiarism at Perkins School of Theology |
| Preparing for Exams | Strategies for coping with end-of-semester exams |
GIS
| Introduction to ArcGIS Online | Basic introduction on using AGOL, the GIS industry standard |
| Introduction to Survey123 | Basic introduction to a simple form-centric data gathering tool |
| Introduction to StoryMaps | Basic introduction to a tool for digital story telling |
| Introduction to ArcGIS Pro | Introduction to desktop ArcGIS software |