Research and Writing Seminars: Develop Your Scholarly Voice. Each session in this suite of four interactive seminars integrates the learning of academic research and writing skills and is taught by a librarian in collaboration with a writing instructor. The goal of each seminar is to help you develop your own voice as an emerging scholar by enabling you to identify, situate and substantiate your arguments in the context of the scholarly discussion taking place in your discipline. The seminars are designed for humanities and social sciences undergraduate students. Graduate students might wish to consider the research-related skills offerings provided by the School of Graduate Studies.

Take any three (3) of the four (4) seminars to earn credit on your Co-Curricular Record.

Writing to Cite

Learn how to develop effective strategies for academic research and how to correctly incorporate primary and secondary sources into your essays. Through short lectures, interactive class discussions and hands-on exercises, you will learn:

The role of citation practices in the scholarly conversation

The various styles of documentation

The mechanics of “writing up” your sources

The different types of publications and how to integrate and document your use of them

To incorporate close reading to develop your own research interests and arguments

What ideas you can claim as your own and which ones you cannot

How to avoid inadvertent plagiarism

Location: Online via Zoom. The link to the session will be sent to you in the confirmation email upon registration.

Other seminars in this series include:

Critical Reading
Annotated Bibliographies
Literature Reviews

Research and Writing Seminar: Writing to Cite

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