Research and Writing for the IT Professional

This course will help you understand the ethical, social, and professional constraints of audience, style, and content for research writing situations. This course teaches you to utilize resources, such as search engines and databases for locating secondary information and presents the strategies of effective data gathering. You will practice an academic writing style which is appropriate to the field of information technology utilizing American Psychological Association (APA) guidelines for writing, formatting, and using citations. You will produce a formal research paper in this course and present it in a virtual setting.