3.6 Tip of the day

Today’s tip is from the category: Things I wish I had learned before my Bachelor Thesis
In short: Tiwilbemba.

Build your personal .pdf library

Take every .pdf you download and get from your instructors and archive it with a naming scheme you can remember easily. Especially scans from books and collections are an invaluable resource since not everything is digitalized.

My suggestion: lastname_year_keyword: e.g. Deignan_2005_Metaphor.pdf

Also…

Start building your bibliography database

Get the info for a bibliography entry as soon as you read a text. Platforms like Primo and Google scholar provide bibliography entries in various styles and formats. In a future installment of Tiwilbemba I will discuss the benefits of tools like BibTex, Mendeley, Endnote …

~15s invested per text → hours saved in the long run.