This course aims to teach students how to use scholarship and effective scholarly communication to improve academic and professional writing. Students are introduced the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), which is a program requirement for all written assignments. In addition, students will understand how to broadly search for scholarly literature and critique scholarly articles. Content includes scholarly inquiry on what is knowledge, why knowledge is valuable to us, and the sources of knowledge we consider to be legitimate, as well as how our social identities contribute to and shape knowledge.