Graduate Research
2019

The University of Michigan-Dearborn

Dr. Bob Fraser

The Race has begun!

Forgive my accent.

Travel time from home?

Dr. Bob Fraser

I can help you

• Upgrade your research skills
• Write strategically
• Think critically
• Write a scholarly lit review
• Refine your dissertation or thesis topic
• Copyright & plagiarism issues

The Library* is critical to your success.

Need a place to
STUDY & RESEARCH?
Come to your LIBRARY!

-Group & individual study spaces
-Grad only computers (near 1151)
-Graduate Research Center (1151)
-Information scientist consultations

E-resources

Massive resources

• 100,000+ searchable online journals
• Millions of e-books (incl. Hathi Trust)
• Videos
• Interlibrary loan
• -- UM-A2 library
• -- MELcat

Information scientists!

• Nadine Anderson(nfanders@umich.edu)
• Carla Brooks (ctbrooks)
• Julia Walkuski (jcdaniel@umich.edu)
• Joan Martin (martj@umich.edu)
• Elaine Meyer (elaineux@umich.edu)
• Raya Samet (rsamet@umich.edu)
• Joel Seewald (seewaldj@umich.edu)

Email them & --

Or email me: rfraser@umich.edu

When YOU want to dig for info

• Umdearborn.edu/library
• Library search box (a broad search engine that is better than Google)
• Browzine (app to build your journal library)
• Subject lists & Specialized Databases
• UM (Ann Arbor) library collection access
• Interlibrary Loan, including MELCAT

Best in class?

• Do your own work; It is the only route to becoming a critical thinker
• Review every week
• Don't take shortcuts (such as exams & assignments from previous years)
• Become known to your faculty
• Ask questions & discuss in class

Best in class? (2)

• Find things that enrich your imagination
• Give more on any (team) project. Never do just the minimum.
• Develop a niche expertise
• Sleep enough, eat enough, exercise enough
• Make colleagues from other cultures
• Turn off the phone (except hourly check)

Let's talk STRATEGY!

Dr. Bob Fraser, consultant
Email: rfraser@umich.edu
Graduate Research Center
1151, the Library

Think or Thwim