For high school students and undergraduates

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Annotated Bibliographies

When assigned a research paper or source-based article to write in college, your professor will often require that you submit an annotated bibliography of the sources you plan to incorporate into your paper. What is the purpose of an annotated… Continue Reading →

Peer-Reviewed Journals

A peer-reviewed journal article is a scholarly work that has been reviewed by other people in the field.  This is to make sure that the information in the article is valid before the research is published in a journal.  For this… Continue Reading →

Research Proposals

The research proposal genre is one you’ll have to work in as an undergraduate student.  A research proposal acts as a brief overview of a research paper and what you aim to accomplish or learn through your research.  For this reason,… Continue Reading →

Discussing Academic Genres: Expository and Argumentative Essays

Academic writing in school is not limited to only one genre.  As a student, you may have to work in a variety of genres, including argumentative essays, research proposals, and peer-reviewed academic journals, but you most likely have the majority of experience in… Continue Reading →

Some Misconceptions

Students write to please their teachers, or at least the majority of us do.  Rather than expressing our true thoughts or ideas, we choose to vaguely skim the surface of a topic, providing detailed summaries but lacking deeper analyses.  We… Continue Reading →

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