The Investigation Group Feature of Zotero that Providing Adviser to Monitoring Student during Thesis Writing Process

Communication between the student and the thesis supervisor is important during the thesis writing process. Face to face and a certain frequency of this communication makes a positive contribution to the quality of the thesis. However, the supervisor of the thesis should monitor the student’s actvities during the process remotly also. Face-to-face communication may be disrupted for some reasons and the student may fail to fulfill his/her responsibilities in the process of thesis and may feel that he is not under control and may lead to the dissolution of his/her thesis plan. In order to avoid this situation, there should be a common working platform between the supervisor and the student. In this study, we investigated the Group feature of Zotero, one of the programs used in academia during research and writing processes and also we explored how a communication bridge could be formed between the thesis student and his/her supervisor. Zotero's group feature enables the supervisor to monitor the thesis student remotely during the activities of thesis writing process, such as literature review on the internet, recording the identities of the literature and categorizing the resources. In our study, we examined how this feature of the program is activated and how it is used, and how the supervisor can contribute to his / her student by using this feature