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This course provides the skills necessary to develop and produce a secondary research paper at the graduate level. Students learn to search and evaluate electronic sources, practice effective reading strategies, take notes, paraphrase, summarize, synthesize and document sources. Course assignments allow students to experience the research process from narrowing the research focus and preparing a working bibliography, to developing a thesis statement and outline, writing and revising drafts, and editing the final copy... collect, evaluate, organize and synthesize information from electronic databases and other Internet sources