This course is for students at all levels from high school to Ph.D. level. The lessons will help the student craft a thesis statement; provide information on how to use the library and the internet to search for sources; and tips to improve writing skills for academic writing; and how to cite sources correctly. Students will also be directed to useful sites on the internet to learn everything they need to know about researching and writing, thus saving the time and trouble of searching. Every student at some point is required to write a research or term paper no matter what subject area. Writing an academic paper takes different skills than writing a letter to a friend or an elementary school essay. Although there is a lot of information available on writing skills,a student still needs someone to guide them through the process from choosing the topic to writing the reference list.
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0.5 CEUs
Course Description
Writing an academic paper requires different skills than writing a letter to a friend or writing an article for a consumer magazine. Although there is a lot of information available on writing skills, a student still needs specific guidance through the process from choosing the topic to writing the reference list.
This course is for students at all levels from high school to Ph. D. level. The lessons will help the students craft a thesis statement, provide information on how to use the library and the internet to search for sources, tips to improve writing skills for academic writing, and how to cite sources correctly. The course also directs the student to useful sites on the internet about researching and writing, thus saving the student the time and trouble of surfing the internet.
If you have a term/research paper to write, this course will be an excellent opportunity for you to have someone walk you through it. The tutor will help you at each step so that you can revise, correct and re-write before handing in the final paper.
Writing an A Plus Research Paper taught by Dr. Marilyn Atherley is a course that will guide the student through the research study from choosing a topic to conducting the research and literature review and writing up the paper. Dr. Atherley is a university lecturer and has been tutoring students for many years up to graduate level. She has observed just where the students have difficulties with research papers. This course will help students through these difficulties. The class goals are: 1.To help the students choose a suitable topic for a research paper.
2. To help the students craft a thesis or problem statement and research questions.
3. To help the students search the literature and write a literature review and bibliography.
4. To develop good academic writing skills.
Students may start this class at any time. It is advised not to wait until you actually have a paper assigned and are working on a deadline, but to complete the course before hand. Once you are a student it is almost inevitable that you will be required to write a paper at some time. If you are working on a deadline for your paper then pace yourself through the course in tandem with completing each section of your paper.
The course will not be graded.
Dr. Atherley is a University Lecturer in Early Childhood Education since January 2001. Tutor. Masters' Programme in Education programmes offered in the Caribbean by the University of Sheffield, England and an Educational Consultant. She also designs and implements training workshops for teachers and others.
This course offers 0.5 CEUs upon successful completion. You may take this
online course with or without CEU documentation. An online and hard-copy Certificate of Course Completion displaying your coursework and
CEUs earned is included with the CEU Option. We also offer an expedited Transcript Service for sending your accomplishments to a third party.
Certificates awarded by the instructor will vary and are based upon student merit.
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