How Zotero can help your literature review task
If you are a PhD student or even a master student or you are writing a report, the chances are that you will have a literature review task. Even when writing a paper, you need a bit of literature review to be able to write a good introduction section. This involves doing a search in titles, keywords and abstracts and maybe some notes in a bunch of papers and books. General online search engines are not the best choices here. You also don't have that much time to open each file one by one and do a search in each of them separately. Here is that Zotero, a free software, can help you. It also help you in organizing your search results. After filtering your literature sources and ending up with a few chosen ones, then you can spend your time on reading the selected items. And finally you need to do the citation in your written report, don't you? Zotero also can automatically generate bibtex file for you (of course you have to manually clean it afterwards ^_^).
In this video we briefly go through these, what literature review is, how to install Zotero, and finally how to use Zotero.
Zotero's homepage where you can download it as well:
www.zotero.org
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I couldn't follow from the part you created the new text file. I can't find the wizard tab in my notepad
@gomitv
11 ай бұрын
@alfredmentor9426 It is not a text, it is a TeX file. A plain text file usually has the extension ".txt" but a TeX (or LaTeX) file has the extension ".tex". The TeX files will be compiled to a PDF file. To do so you need a compiler such as TeXLive (tug.org/texlive/) or MikTeX (miktex.org/). Of course you can write a tex file in a notepad, as you can write a C++ or Python code in notepad too, but notepad would not convert the TeX file to a PDF for you. So you need one of those two compilers that I named (or a similar one). And then you may prefer to also use an editor supporting some stuff for TeX files, for example here I am using TeXStudio (www.texstudio.org/) which has that "wizards" tab. There are other alternative editors such as VSCode + LaTeX Workshop extension (marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=James-Yu.latex-workshop), or WinEdit (www.winedt.com/), or TeX Maker (www.xm1math.net/texmaker/). If you want to do exactly as I did then I recommend installing first the TeXLive and then the TeX Studio. Both are free. The first one has a few GB size (not small) but after that, the TeX Studio is only a few MB. Note that TeX Studio is just an editor, so it still needs TeXLive to convert your TeX to a PDF. So the answer is that I am not using Notepad, the wisards menu is in Tex Studio.
@alfredmentor9426
10 ай бұрын
I made it. God bless you more 🙏
Are you teaching in Bangkok?