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Assignment Purpose:
The first part of this assignment will assist you in identifying a topic which you will work with for subsequent activities in the course. The second part of the assignment helps you articulate what constitutes plagiarism.
Part 1:
In this course you will be using a variety of resources and research tools. This activity will guide you in formulating a topic to use for later assignments in this course.
What is something you are curious about? What is something you see out in the world that you want to know more about? Perhaps think of health, business, or socio-cultural issues. Write it here:
Create a Mind Map for your topic in the Credo Reference Database available through the Herzing University Library. You can access the link to that database in the Research Topics Starting Points guide.
If you need assistance using this tool, contact the Herzing University Librarians using the contact information in that guide. You might need to play around with how you word your topic.
Write at least three research questions related to your topic and circle or somehow indicate the one you are most interested in answering:
Create a thesis statement for your research project. Be sure it meets the characteristics of a "strong" thesis statement as described in the reading for this unit.