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A practical foundation in finding, evaluating, organizing, citing and using sources for responsible academic and heritage research.What You Will LearnTurn broad interests into research questionsfind and evaluate sourcestake useful research notescite sources consistentlyavoid plagiarismCourse StructureFrom Topic to Research Question: Choosing a Topic, Narrowing Scope, Writing Good Research QuestionsFinding Sources: Libraries and Catalogues, Digital Repositories, Search StrategiesUnderstanding Sources: Primary and Secondary Sources, Authority and Reliability, Bias and ContextResearch Notes and Organization: Effective Note-Taking, Bibliographic Records, Organizing a Research ProjectCitation and Academic Integrity: Why We Cite, Citation Styles, Quotation, Paraphrase and PlagiarismDigital Research Skills: Searching Digitized Collections, Working with PDFs and OCR, Managing Files and VersionsMini Research Exercise: Planning, Source Review, Short Research OutputScholarly review: Religious, historical and source-specific content should be reviewed against Al-Mureed-approved primary and scholarly sources before publication.
