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Tutorial 1: Getting Started With Your Research

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Tutorial Description

This tutorial will help you learn to identify the different parts of an assignment sheet or syllabus related to research planning and find out how to participate in research as a scholar.

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Table of Contents

  1. Breaking Down the Assignment

    Identify the different parts of an assignment sheet or syllabus related to research planning.

    1. Identify the parts of the assignment
    2. Tools that can help you organize your research time
    3. Start early
  2. Research as a Scholarly Conversation

    Research can be viewed as a scholarly conversation, between you and people who have previously done work on various aspects of your topic. In this section you will learn how to join this conversation and some appropriate ways to use the ideas and words of other researchers.

    1. Joining the Scholarly Conversation
    2. Your role in the scholarly conversation: dialoging
    3. Using Sources: Quoting
    4. Using Sources: Paraphrasing
    5. Using Sources: Summarizing
    6. Citing Your Sources
    7. Quoting, Paraphrasing, Summarizing Quiz
    8. WR 121 Tutorial 1 End