ING 201 - Research Paper Writing

Course Objectives

1. Improve students’ reading and writing skills as well as evaluating and interpreting written information
2. Improve students’ technical vocabulary
3. Create awareness of sound, scholarly sources
4. Enhance knowledge about a specific subject related to their department
5. Enable awareness and application of the research process by conforming to the conventions of academic life
and adhering to the norms of research ethics

Course Description

The course focuses on writing a research paper of at least 1500 words based on sound scholarly sources on a topic of interest related to a student’s field by conforming to the APA standards of writing without committing plagiarism. In this course the whole research process is taught step by step through skillsincluding research, source selection, choice of topic, construction and defense of a thesis statement, citingsources, outlining, organizing a “References” page and note taking.