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Writing Workshops

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Creating a Project Plan

Learn about how to remake your assignment sheet for clarity, define your personal goals for the paper, and create a final schedule for working on your assignment.

Choosing a Topic

Discover how to distinguish a topic from an argument, find potential topics for your paper, and refine potential topics.

Performing a Literature Review

Understand the purpose of a literature review, start using citation management software, and how to collect, process, and analyze sources.

Developing an Argument

Find unanswered questions, refine questions through an evidentiary review, construct an argument to answer the question, and finally organize the argument into an outline.

Write and Revise a Paper

Hear about tips for productively and successfully working through the writing, revising, and editing processes.