Description
This course prepares the student majoring in social work to complete scholarly writing tasks successfully. Topics include expectation and standards for scholarly writing, conducting searches of professional literature, using effective paraphrasing and summarizing skills, writing logically and coherently, and citing references correctly by adhering to APA format. The course is intended to support students? efforts on writing tasks assigned in future courses. In the field of social work, the professional social worker must have a strong understanding of the vocabulary of the profession and be able to effectively write progress notes, reports, assessments and research. The student in this course learns to organize their thoughts, write freely and edit their writing effectively. The student also learns and correctly utilizes the APA style. Finally, the student learns the importance of performing research and to utilize that research to inform their knowledge base.