Research and Applied Writing Across the Disciplines

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This is a three-credit hour GMP Advanced Writing course that will provide the opportunity for students to be mentored through the development of a research proposal, a literature review, and/or develop a manuscript for publication and/or a poster presentation. The overall goal of this course is to guide students in learning to develop research in their chosen field of study and write effectively using APA style for general population. Writing exercises will take the form of assignments that require the student to develop successive sections of the research proposal or other writing project until it is complete. Students will learn to (a) identify the attributes of a well written proposal, paper or poster, (b) search and cite in proper APA formatting appropriate, relevant literature (c) develop an awareness of plagiarism and ethics in science writing, (d) understand the role of constructive, critical feedback and editing and revising their writing. ADVW. PA-1C.