Research is a science, and the characteristics of science are systematic, replicable, and public.
In addition, science is a public endeavor, which means that findings or the knowledge gleaned from research must be disseminated to the public in order to expand the discipline's knowledge base. The public is defined as the broad social work and social science community as well as the practitioner's local community. Therefore, the goal of this course is to provide an overview of the skills and techniques to write a professional article or report with the objective of disseminating knowledge. This course will review basic elements of writing objectively and analytically, obtaining resources from libraries and the Internet, how to compile the resources to write a literature review, and other components that go into a professional article or report. Course Prerequisite Students who enroll in this course must have enrolled and completed Social Work Research.