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Writing, Citing & Research
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  • Getting Started
    • 🏠Introduction
    • đŸ—“ī¸Course Outline
  • The Extended Essay
    • đŸ’¯Assessment Requirements
    • 📅Plan & Timeline
    • 💁Subject Specific Guidance from the IB
    • 🌎World Studies Extended Essay
    • 🤔Choosing a Subject & Topic
    • 🧑‍đŸĢPresentations
  • Research
    • ❓Research Questions
    • đŸ—ƒī¸Literature Reviews
    • đŸ‘ī¸Where should I look?
      • 🎓Google Scholar
      • â„šī¸JSTOR
      • 🇭🇰HKPL
      • đŸ‡¨đŸ‡ŗWanFang
    • 🎓Subject Guides
      • 📈DP Business Management & Economics
      • đŸ—ēī¸DP Geography
      • 📜DP History
      • 📖DP Language & Literature
      • 🧠DP Psychology
      • 🎭DP Theatre
      • 🎨DP Visual Arts
      • 🧮The Mathematical Exploration
    • 📃Academic Journals
    • 🔗Citation Chaining
    • 🤖Using AI
      • Prompts
      • Edge & Copilot
      • Using AI to help you conduct a literature review
      • AI & research (RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), summaries, connections)
    • eLibrary
  • Writing
    • Academic Posters
    • đŸ—’ī¸Note-taking
      • Keep
      • Obsidian
    • 📄Writing an Essay Outline
    • âœī¸Presentation
    • đŸ—Ŗī¸Viva Voce
    • ✅Checklist
  • Citing
    • 📝Documenting Sources
      • Zotero
    • đŸ›ī¸MLA & Academic Integrity
  • MISC
    • 📚Books
    • ⭐Links
    • đŸ’¯Sample Essays with Feedback
    • ❓FAQ
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  1. Getting Started

Introduction

Welcome to 'Writing, Citing & Research' (WCR)!

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Introduction

This course is designed to sharpen your research skills and boost your academic writing, research skills and mastery of citation skills across all DP subjects - but with a focus on the EE. You'll learn to craft compelling research questions, navigate scholarly resources like a pro, and master essential tools such as Zotero for citations. You'll explore strategies for note-taking, using platforms like Obsidian, and how to create essay outlines. The course will also cover academic integrity, and how to use artificial intelligence responsibly and ethically . You'll also get hands-on experience with cutting-edge research techniques, including the responsible use of AI for literature reviews and idea generation. Whether you're working on business management, psychology, or any other DP subject, this course will equip you with the skills to tackle your assignments and extended essay with confidence. By the end, you'll have a toolkit of research and writing skills that will serve you well throughout the DP and also provide you with essential skills that you need to excel at university. Get ready to transform your approach to academic writing, citing and research!

Learning Outcomes

Research is used to:

Understand topic. and discover what has already been written about it (literature review)

Start with choosing a topic but don't go into detail on.Just go ahead to writing a good research Question.

Objectives & Goals:

Key Concepts

Key Skills

Supporting arguments with evidence (exercise: provide evidence to suppot this statement)

Evaluating sources through lateral reading

Citation Chaining

Witing a Literature Review

Using AI ethically

"write a research question on ...." vs " provide a list of hot research areas in the .../. Evaluate my research question.

Knowledge Questions

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Authority Is Constructed and Contextual
Information Creation as a Process
Information Has Value
Research as Inquiry
Scholarship as Conversation
Searching as Strategic Exploration