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Online Readings

See your schedule for readings from the Writer’s Reference and Writing down the Basics.

• Research Assignment
• APA Format Assignment
• APA Citation Basics (Video)
• What Kind of Source is This? (Video)  (Slideshow Only)
• How to Write a Research Question
• Starting with a Question: Staying Curious (Video)
• Evaluating Websites: Techniques to Apply and Questions to Ask

Read the "Home" and "Scholarly & Popular Sources" tabs:

• The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia
• Doing Research on EPCC’s Library Search and Google Scholar (Video)
• Reading (and Using) Scholarly Articles  (Video)
• What is an Academic Paper?
• Language, Tone and Audience
• When to Summarize, Paraphrase, and Quote
• How to Write a Summary
• Writing an Annotated Bibliography
• From Annotated Bibliography to Essay (Video)

Samples

Topic Question

• Rudi: Original Questions  

½ Annotated Bibliography–Prewriting

• Dying to be Beautiful
• The War Within

Annotated Bibliography

• Dying to Be Beautiful
• Finding the Zombie within Ourselves

Final Essay

• Dying to be Beautiful: The Effects of the Media on Young Women and Girls   (Video Walk Through)
• Finding the Zombie within Ourselves
• Social Media and a Divided Society: The Creation of a Hate Culture  
• Stigma Busters  (Video Walk Through)
• Understanding Drug Addition and Ways in Which We Can Help Recovering Addicts Stay Sober
• The War Within