QP Forum

Please join the library staff for a QP forum. This session will address QP research and formatting and the many ways students can organize their papers, from start to finish. The Library will display a variety of QP examples so you may discover what kind of format would work best with your topic.

Wednesday, February 3, 2021 | 12:15-1:15 pm | Via Zoom
RSVP: alec.newell@bgc.bard.edu

QP Workshop: Chicago Style and Bibliographies

This workshop will cover elements of the Chicago Manual of Style most pertinent to BGC essays and qualifying papers. Learn the unbreakable rules and how to make decisions about the rest. We will definitely talk about figures and illustrations! Please bring your Chicago Manual of Style or Turabian (if you can) and your questions. Led by Helen Polson, Assistant Professor of Practice in Writing.

Monday, February 15, 2021 | 12:15-1:15 pm | Via Zoom
RSVP: alec.newell@bgc.bard.edu

DML Workshop: Advanced WordPress (Avada)

This workshop looks closely at expanding WordPress through Avada, a premium theme that lets users fully customize the look and functionality of websites without any coding knowledge. Working with Avada’s toolkit, participants will learn how to implement advanced layout designs, develop templates, dynamic page content, and integrate multimedia.  This workshop will prove helpful for anyone looking to have more control over the design and functionality of their web-based projects. Led by Jesse Merandy,

Wednesday, February 17, 2021 | 12:15-1:15 pm | Via Zoom
RSVP: alec.newell@bgc.bard.edu

Activating the Historical Imagination

If we are to make sense of the material worlds we research, we must enter them imaginatively, weaving relations between things, people, and places into historical narratives. While scholarship and fiction take different forms and have different goals, they share this imaginative process: both are, as Hillary Mantel remarked, “one person sitting in a room, thinking hard, looking at the unseen, listening to silence, performing invisible work.” In this series of three informal workshops, we will explore the potential insights offered by the craft of fiction to scholars of material culture. Drawing on a disparate selection of historical fiction, we will discuss the way fiction writers deploy material culture in their world-making and adapt their tools to our own purposes. Following each workshop, participants will complete a short writing project inspired by the class, accumulating material towards a short story, exploratory essay, or narrative reflection. Led by Helen Polson, Assistant Professor of Practice in Writing.

Part 1, Tuesday, February 23, 2021 | 5-6:30 pm | Via Zoom
Part 2, Tuesday, March 2, 2021 | 5-6:30 pm | Via Zoom
Part 3, Tuesday, March 23, 2021 | 5-6:30 pm | Via Zoom

RSVP: alec.newell@bgc.bard.edu

QP Formatting

This zoom session is intended to help students gain an understanding of the many ways they can format their QP. The Library will not be instructing students on formatting, but will display examples so you may discover what kind of format would work best with your topic/advisor. Led by the Library.

Wednesday, February 24, 2021 | 12:15-1:15 pm | Via Zoom
RSVP: alec.newell@bgc.bard.edu

https://bgc-bard.zoom.us/j/97325002670
Meeting ID: 973 2500 2670
Passcode: 894463

QP Workshop: Intros and Conclusions

Learn to construct effective and compelling introductions and conclusions. Led by Helen Polson, Assistant Professor of Practice in Writing.

Monday, March 15, 2021 | 12:15-1:15 pm | Via Zoom
RSVP: alec.newell@bgc.bard.edu

DML Workshop: Draw Attention (Interactive Images on WordPress)

Draw Attention is a powerful WordPress plugin that creates interactive images for your web-based project. In this workshop you will learn how to work with images in the plugin and create clickable/tappable regions to present information, images, videos and more. For examples of this plugin in action, please visit the Eileen Gray Online Exhibition Site.
Prerequisites: Basic WordPress knowledge.

Thursday, March 18, 2021 | 12:15-1:15 pm | Via Zoom
RSVP: alec.newell@bgc.bard.edu

QP Workshop: Reading Drafts

We often feel uncomfortable about sharing our writing with others and critiquing others’ work–but such sharing is an essential practice for academics and writers. In this workshop, we will lay out a rubric for reading and responding helpfully to the writing of your peers and begin the generous work of sharing our qualifying paper drafts with others. Please bring two paper copies of your draft. Led by Helen Polson, Assistant Professor of Practice in Writing.

Wednesday, March 31, 2021 | 12:15-1:15 pm | Via Zoom
RSVP: alec.newell@bgc.bard.edu