Research Writing: Advanced ((3-4 Credits))

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This course is designed to provide in-depth work in research writing. Students will learn how to create a research question, find and reading journal articles, check facts, and question a source, while doing an annotated bibliography, drafting-writing-revising a literature review, and doing an oral presentation based on the literature review. The course will focus these assignments on one topic of the student’s choice for the term. Students also maintain a journal throughout, to promote fuller understanding of themselves as writers and researchers. Students will end the term with an advanced-level, analytical research paper as well as an understanding of the multiple ways in which research may be approached. This course may be used to fulfill educational planning credit with mentor approval. To be successful in this course, students should have the ability to do advanced-level work including familiarity with library-based research; introductory-level work in college writing preferred.