Using Workspace or Projects

When you become a subscriber, a personalized storage area is automatically created for you on the Questia service. This storage area is called Workspace or Projects and contains your Default Project and all other projects you create on the Questia service.

In this area, you can:

Create and organize your own projects for saving specific aspects of your research, such as any markups you make.
Create a bibliography automatically with the style of your choice (MLA, Chicago Manual of Style, APA, and so on). For details, see Citation Style Examples.
View and print the consolidated contents of your markups.

To access your personalized storage area, click the Workspace or Projects tab.

Note

If you are not already logged in to the service, the system prompts you to log in before opening Workspace or Projects.

The contents of the current project in Workspace or Projects can be displayed as a group or by individual file type. Under the View by Type menu, you can choose how you view your markups and other files. See Viewing Project Contents for more information.

For step-by-step instructions, click:

Accessing Pages from a Linked Entry

Creating a Bibliography

Managing Files and Folders

Creating a Project

Setting the Current Project

Renaming a Project

Deleting a Project

Deleting a File

Viewing Project Contents

Sorting Files

Displaying and Printing Markup Contents

Using the Bookshelf

Menu Options

The menus on the Workspace or Projects page offer the following options:

Projects –

New Project – enter a name and click the New Project button to create a new project

Remove – click to delete a project from the system from your workspace

Rename – click to rename the current project

Change projects by clicking the project name to designate it as the project to which your markups are saved

Bibliography – Create footnotes, quotes, and bibliographies

Create Bibliography – create a bibliography that you can paste into your paper

Reference Books – Access the Dictionary, Thesaurus, and Encyclopedia

Dictionary – open the Dictionary in a new window

Thesaurus – open the Thesaurus in a new window

Encyclopedia – open the Encyclopedia in a new window

Preferences – Modify your preferences for viewing, printing, searching and citations

Viewing – select font type and size, turn on/off table of contents, publisher line breaks, and popup help

Printing – enable black and white format, printing highlights and printing notes

Searching – select full or brief publication descriptions and the number of results to display of each media type per page

Citations – select default citation style and type and select which kinds of citations to include in your bibliography

Help - Access online help documentation, frequently asked questions, or recommended system requirements

Questia Help - open the online help documentation

Questia FAQ - open the frequently asked questions

System Requirements - open the System Requirements page