Pfeiffer Library: Collaboration Resources: Resources

Common Activities

These guides provide additional guidance for common group-related assignments:

Conducting Effective Peer Reviews
A guide for effectively participating in the peer review process
Creating Effective Presentations
Guide discussing tools and techniques for building effective presentations.

Academic Writer

Academic Writer provides you with tutorials for APA formatting. If you create your own account inside the resource, you can utilize the collaboration features in the Write area to share your work with group members.

Connect to Academic Writer:

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Compose papers in pre-formatted APA templates. Manage references in forms that help craft APA citations. Learn the rules of APA style through tutorials and practice quizzes.
Academic Writer will continue to use the 6th edition guidelines until August 2020. A preview of the 7th edition is available in the footer of the resource's site.

Previously known as APA Style Central.

View the Academic Writer tutorial.

Google Tools

Sign in to your University email account and use your Google Drive to share, review, and comment on documents as a group.

Here are some tutorials for those features:

Google Docs: Add, Edit, Reply, or Delete Comments
Text and video tutorial for using the comments feature in Google Docs.
Google Docs Help Center
A lengthy list of tutorials for using Google Docs
Suggest Edits in Google Docs
Instructions for turning on the "suggesting" feature in Google Docs to make changes to a document which require approval by the document owner.

My EBSCOhost

Use the collaboration features in DragonQuest to share research material you've found with your group mates.

Connect to DragonQuest:

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Meta searches most of Tiffin University's databases and the OhioLINK catalog.

View the My EBSCOhost section of the DragonQuest tutorial.