Course Specific Research Support for WR 222: Home

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Writing Research Papers course outcomes related to research skills:

Other indicators of required research or information seeking:

From the Course Description:

Develops skills in critical analysis and documented argument through extensive research writing. Covers techniques to synthesize considered responses to designated text(s) and/or issues with the reactions of other writers. Includes information literacy skills developed through the use of library catalogs, professional databases and other forms of research. Includes paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, and documenting, using style appropriate to discipline researched.

From the Outcome and Assessment Strategies:

  • At least one research-based, thesis-centered, appropriately documented essay of 3500-5000 words (or an equivalent word count in shorter essays)
  • An annotated bibliography (or equivalent)

From the Course Content:

  • Examine and discuss issues of plagiarism, ethics of research writing, credibility, authority, and self-directed learning
  • Advance the concepts of independent study and research, self-knowledge, and the ability to assess own work critically
  • Engage in inference, analysis, synthesis
  • Solve problems involved in an extended writing project
  • Perceive, connect, and integrate a variety of sources and positions, and establish own ideas in such a context
  • Demonstrate an awareness of audience
  • Recognize the distinction between scholarly (or peer reviewed), professional, commercial, and other forms of writing and resources
  • Ability to use library databases to access academic and nonacademic sources
  • Evaluate relative authority of print and electronic sources
  • Focus on community-based primary sources such as interviews, local information and historical data

Oregon Association of School Libraries

Topic Guide

Research Guide

Additional librarian-created content and tools

Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

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