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Research Skills and Resources

Writing Research Papers

Research and Documenting Sources

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Research Skills and Resources

• Productive Web Searches
• Searching the World Wide Web
• Evaluating Sources of Information
  • Getting started
  • Evaluating a Bibliographic Citation
  • Evaluating Content in the Source
  • Evaluating Internet Sources
  • Further Resources
• Using American Psychological Association (APA) Format
• American Psychological Association (APA) Style Workshop
• Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format
• Formatting in Sociology
• Resources for Documenting Sources (in any format)
• Documenting Electronic Sources (in any format)

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Writing Research Papers

• Annotated Bibliographies
• Writing Research Papers: A Step-by-Step List
• Developing an Outline
• Paraphrasing: exercise and answer key
• Plagiarism
• Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
• Sample Outline
• Using Statistics
• Writing a Thesis Statement

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