Extended course description: This is a course that will change how you write papers, and how you formulate arguments. We will shed shed our amateur apparel and don the suits of professional researchers--creating arguments based in rock-solid research and writing sentences so profound that they echo when you reach the period.

Okay, there are less glamorous moments that we will have to trudge through. Nevertheless, you will be able to use your newly acquired research skills to make birthday gifts and delicious vinaigrettes.

This course is designed to teach you how to write and research as a scholar. Our focus will be on the research practices of communication studies, although the skills we learn may be applied generally.

I just pulled that off of my professor's website, which I have finally been able to open. Communication Research seems like a much more exciting class in the syllabus. Classes end next week, before final exams in two weeks, and I haven't seen anything about vinaigrettes yet...