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| Finding a Scholarly Spic | |
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| Generating Ideas and Focusing the Subject | |
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| Relating Your Personal Ideas to a Scholarly Problem | |
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| Talking with Others to Find and Refine the Topic | |
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| Using Electronic Sources | |
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| Using Textbooks and Reference Books.b | |
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| Writing a Thesis, Enthymeme, or Hypothesis | |
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| Thesis Statement | |
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| Enthymeme.Hypothesis | |
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| Drafting a Research Proposal | |
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| Writing a Short Research Proposal | |
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| Writing a Detailed Research Proposal | |
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| Library Research | |
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| Finding Sources with Your Library Access | |
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| Using the Librarys Electronic Book Catalog | |
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| Searching the Librarys Electronic Databases | |
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| Searching the Printed Bibliographies | |
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| Searching the Printed Indexes | |
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| Searching Biographies | |
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| Searching Newspaper Indexes | |
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| Searching the Indexes to Pamphlet Files | |
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| Searching Government Documents | |
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| Searching for Essays within Books | |
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| Building Your Research Journal | |
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| Searching the World Wide Web | |
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| Using a Search Engine | |
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| Using Search Engines Devoted to Academic Disciplines | |
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| Accessing Online Sources | |
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| Field Research: Collecting Data Outside the Library | |
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| Conducting Research within a Discipline | |
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| The Social Scientists | |
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| The Physical Scientists | |
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| The Applied Scientists | |
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| The Humanists | |
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| Investigating Local Sources | |
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| Examining Audiovisual Materials, the Internet, Television and Radio Programs | |
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| Conducting a Survey with a Questionnaire | |
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| Conducting Experiments, Tests, and Observation | |
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| Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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| Using Sources to Enhance Your Credibility | |
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| Identifying Bias in a Source | |
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| Honoring Property Rights | |
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| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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| Seeking Permission to Publish Material on Your Web Site | |
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| Finding and Reading the Best Sources | |
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| Understanding the Assignment | |
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| Guide to Academic Sources | |
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| Humanities | |
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| Social Sciences | |
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| Sciences | |
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| Identifying the Best Source Materials | |
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| Scholarly Book | |
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| Biography | |
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| Scholarly Article | |
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| Sponsored Web Site | |
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| Interview | |
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| Experiment, test, or observation | |
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| Trade book | |
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| Encyclopedia | |
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| Popular magazine | |
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| Newspaper | |
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| E-Mail Discussion Group | |
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| Individual web site | |
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| Internet Chat Conversations | |
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| Evaluating a Source | |
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| Relevancy | |
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| Authority | |
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| Accuracy | |
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| Currency | |
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| Organizing Ideas and Setting Goals | |
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| Using the Correct Academic Model (Paradigm) | |
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| A General All-Purpose Model | |
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| Academic Pattern for the Interpretation of Literature and Other Creative Works | |
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| Academic Pattern for the Analysis of History | |
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| Academic Pattern for Advancing Philosophical and Religious Ideas | |
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| Academic Pattern for the Review of a Performance | |
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| Academic Pattern for Advancing Your Ideas and Theories | |
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| Academic Pattern for Argument and Persuasion Papers | |
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| Academic Model for a Comparative Study | |
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| Academic Pattern for a Laboratory Investigation or Field Report | |
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| Academic Pattern for Scientific Analysis | |
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| Academic Pattern for a Report of Empirical Research | |
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| Using Your Thesis to Control the Outline | |
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| Argument | |
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| Cause and effect | |
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| Evaluation | |
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| Comparison | |
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| Writing an Outline | |
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| Topic Outline | |
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| Sentence Outline | |
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| Writing Effective Notes | |
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| Honoring the Conventions of Research Style | |
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| Writing Personal Notes | |
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| Writing Direct Quotation Notes | |
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| Quoting the Primary Sources | |
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| Quoting the Secondary Sources | |
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| Writing Paraphrased Notes | |
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| Writing Summary Notes | |
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| Use the summary to review briefly an article or book | |
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| Use the summary to write an annotated bibliography | |
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| Use the summary in a plot summary note | |
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| Use the summary to create an abstract | |
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| Writing Notes from Field Research | |
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| Using Your Notes to Write an Annotated Bibliography | |
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| Sample Paper: Annotated Bibliography | |
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| Using Your Notes to Write a Review of the Literature | |
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| Gender Communication: A Review of the Literature | |
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| Drafting the Paper in an Academic Style | |
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| Writing for Your Field of Study | |
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| Academic Style in the Humanities | |
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| Academic Style in the Social Sciences | |
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| Academic Style in the Physical and Medical Sciences | |
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| Focusing Your Argument | |
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| Persuading, Inquiring, and Negotiating | |
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| Maintaining a Focus with Ethical and Logical Appeals | |
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| Focusing the Final Thesis Sentence or Hypothesis | |
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| Designing an Academic Title | |