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Academic Research Strategies
Academic research aims to investigate a specific topic to discover new ideas that help in the problem-solving process of a particular project.
A researcher should understand their topic clearly, identify a direction for managing the project, and ask relevant questions to help source relevant information (Hacker & Sommers, 2019).
Researchers should keep track of the sources adopted in delivering project information.
Also, they should be able to separate their ideas from insights derived from the sources and cite them to avoid plagiarism.
Evaluating Sources
Evaluating sources involves understanding the kinds of sources required, the purpose of the sources, and identifying enough trustworthy sources to borrow ideas for a given project.
A writer should determine a given source’s significance, relevance, and reliability to support their work. Evaluating sources is a continuous process when writing a project (Ballenger, 2018).
When a person begins questioning the credibility of a given source, they return to searching and reading the information contained in the source to evaluate its significance in their work (Sinatra & Lombardi, 2020).
A writer should habitually evaluate a source in all project stages: during planning, searching, reading, and writing (Hacker & Sommers, 2019).
Plagiarism
Plagiarism occurs when an author uses another author’s words or ideas without acknowledging their contribution and giving them appropriate credit.
Plagiarism is a serious academic offense; most students or writers are victims and can commit the offense accidentally (Awasthi, 2019).
A writer who half-copy an author’s work by incorporating synonyms into the author’s work commits a plagiarism offense unknowingly (Perkins et al., 2020).
A writer should have effective note-taking strategies to avoid committing the offense. Some note-taking strategies include summarizing, paraphrasing, and directly quoting and citing the author of the source from which the ideas were derived (Hacker & Sommers, 2019).
References
Awasthi, S. (2019). Plagiarism and academic misconduct: A systematic review. DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology, 39(2). DOI : 10.14429/djlit.39.2.13622
Ballenger, B. (2018). The Curious Researcher (9th ed.). New York: Pearson Education, Inc.
Hacker, D., & Sommers, N. (2019). Rules for writes (9th ed.). New York: Macmillan Learning.
Perkins, M., Gezgin, U. B., & Roe, J. (2020). Reducing plagiarism through academic misconduct education. International Journal for Educational Integrity, 16(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40979-020-00052-8
Sinatra, G. M., & Lombardi, D. (2020). Evaluating sources of scientific evidence and claims in the post-truth era may require reappraising plausibility judgments. Educational Psychologist, 55(3), 120-131. https://doi.org/10.1080/00461520.2020.1730181
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Question 
Read Chapter 2, “The Second Week,” of The Curious Researcher e-book.
DUE: QUIZ by Sunday, Sept 24, by 11:59pm. Take the Quiz in D2L on “The Second Week” of The Curious Researcher. As a reminder, these are open book quizzes, taken directly from the book. You can have one tab open to your quiz and another tab open to the e-book.
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Read pages 348-369, pages 381-386 (in MLA section), and pages 464-467 (in APA section) in Rules for Writers (RfW).
For those of you using the e-book:
Page 348 is the start of section 51 and is called “Thinking like a researcher; gathering sources.” You should read all the way up through the end of section 55.
Page 381 is the start of section 55, called “Citing sources, avoiding plagiarism.” You only need to read that section 55; stop when you get to section 61.
Page 464 is the start of section 60, called “Citing sources; avoiding plagiarism.” You only need to read that section 60; stop when you get to section 61.