Course Syllabus

This is not your typical course but is a CANVAS site developed as a research and writing resource for Social Work graduate students.
In the future a writing course syllabus will be added to this as a course offered in the summer for those who wish to improve their critical thinking and writing skills as they begin their graduate students or for current students who share the same goal. Good journeys to better writing and new confidence!

Here's an outline of the modules you will find on this site:

Why do we need this CANVAS site?

What is different about research and writing in Graduate                    School….and in Social Work as a discipline?

Research for Social Work

Overview of the writing process

Organizing your writing by using the syllabus and other methods:
      - Using Outlines and writing “maps”

What is this “critical thinking and analysis” expectation?

Abstracts and Introductions

Sample article analysis and academic journal review

Expository vs. reflective writing
- Descriptive writing
- Expository writing
- Narrative writing
- Persuasive writing

Preparing for Presentations

The mechanics of writing

Editing and critiquing your writing

Citations and References

The Ethics of writing

Disabilities, “Different Abilities” and Barriers to good outcomes

Resources: print and web resources for your use