Preparing Students for ETD Format Review - USETDA 2021 Conference.
Channel: USETDA
Date: 2022-03-13

Preparing Students for ETD Format Review: A Discussion of Workshop Best Practices.

Cynthia Tindongan
Ohio University

Cynthia Tindongan, PhD is the director of Thesis and Dissertation Services at Ohio University. She shepherds students through the ETD submission and publication processes including conducting several workshops per semester. She is currently conducting research on best practices for providing thesis and dissertation services.

Dan Gordon Nygard
North Dakota State University

Dan Nygard is the dissertation and thesis advisor at North Dakota State University, responsible for format review and publication of all NDSU Graduate Student dissertations and theses. Over the past five years he has presented thesis and dissertation workshops for over 350 graduate students.

Lusiella Fazzino
St. John’s University

Lusiella Fazzino is Assistant Professor and eScholarship Repository Librarian at St. John’s University in Queens, New York. Along with charge of the ETD portion of St. John’s Scholar, the institutional repository, she facilitates journal hosting and other scholarly services.

Abstract
A number of Graduate Schools and Libraries hold ETD workshops in order to make the Format Review process efficient and successful. However, crafting an effective workshop can be challenging and specific to institution type.

This presentation will review case studies of workshop practices at three mid-size universities: Ohio University, a rural public university; North Dakota State University, a land-grant public university; and St. John’s University, a private Catholic university. We seek common themes in presenting successful workshops and identifying challenges.

Providing workshops is a promising practice that is beneficial to both students and staff in facilitating a smooth completion of the ETD formatting and submission process. Given constraints of time and resources, workshops can be a significant shift in practice. Managing ETDs solely through the review process has proven to be limited whereas workshops have improved outcomes for both Graduate Schools and Libraries.

Session outcomes include a robust discussion of the benefits of providing regular workshops to our target audience of graduate students. Participants should come away with an understanding of how three institutions utilize workshops, accompanied by the input of other participants.

Attendees will have access to our workshop curricula, training materials, and website links.

 Keywords
workshops; ETD format review

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