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Labels are a useful way of focusing on a particular feature of a group of people or things when that feature is relevant to the context. For example, when we are discussing which venue to use for a meeting, we may label someone as a person with a “disability”. Here the label would be relevant to the considerate treatment of someone who is confined to a wheelchair, for example. But labeling people may sometimes hide other important and relevant features and cause us to prejudice someone’s interes

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• Labels are a useful way of focusing on a particular feature of a group of people
• Making an argument in an essay, term paper, blog post, or other format is like l
• This section will help you figure out which components may come from your profes
• This table, created from the ideas developed by Joseph Bizup, describes the role
• You’ve learned about the various roles sources can play in written material. In
• Articles in scholarly journals are valued for several reasons. First, they are u
• News sources can provide insights on events that scholarly sources may not or th
• People don’t just create the sources we use. They are sources themselves. Most o
• Identify the main concepts in your research question by selecting the nouns impo
• Library catalogs are searchable online and contain records for all the items own
• WorldCat searches the holdings of libraries from all over the world, as well as
• Google Scholar is a tool for finding books and journal articles that you might n
• Web search engines use special software programs called robots, spiders, bots, o
• Academic Search Complete
• Citing sources is an academic convention for keeping track of which sources infl
• You may be familiar with the many citation generators that allow you to auto-gen
• The internet has made the creation and sharing of creative works much easier tha

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