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What academic research and writing is: seeking the truth and adding to knowledge

BM401 · Academic Writing and Research Skills — Week 1 of 16

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This week’s topics

What academic research and writing is: seeking the truth and adding to knowledge

  1. Seeking the truth
  2. Adding to knowledge

What you will be able to do

  • 1.1 Explain what is meant by the term ‘academic research and writing.’

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then discuss how they apply to this week’s topic and note one example from a real business.

Study materials

Videos

  • Introduction to academic research · YouTube · Laurentian Library · 5 min · for registered students
  • How I Write a Research Paper | The Academic Writing Process · YouTube · Writing with Andrew · 15 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Writing Guide, 12.1: Introducing Research and Research Evidence · PDF · OpenStax Writing Guide with Handbook (2021), 12.1: the research process and types of research evidence, pp. 390–391 · for registered students
  • Introduction to Sociology 3e, 2.1: Approaches to Research · PDF · OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 3e (2021), 2.1: the scientific method and how research adds to knowledge, pp. 36–39 · for registered students
  • Why most published research findings are false · Open-access article · Ioannidis (2005), PLOS Medicine. Famous essay on how research seeks truth and why findings can fail. · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: What academic research and writing is: seeking the truth an…
  • Week 2: Academic writing conventions: academic language, paragraphs…
  • Week 3: Paraphrasing, summarising and writing to a word count
  • Week 4: Types of research (descriptive, associational, intervention…
  • Week 5: Sources of information and evidence: journals, textbooks, c…
  • Week 6: The research process: primary and secondary research
  • Week 7: What critical thinking is: a systematic way to evaluate arg…
  • Week 8: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Critical thinking skills: critical reading, analysis, inter…
  • Week 10: Why critical thinking matters in research: creativity, lang…
  • Week 11: Evaluating an argument: coherence, testing the evidence and…
  • Week 12: What makes a reliable academic argument: evidence, premise …
  • Week 13: Inductive and deductive reasoning
  • Week 14: Building a logical argument structure for a given topic
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Week 16: Final evaluation and project assessment
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