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To round out my research tips, here's a few programs you could use to organize your sources and write your papers.
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...that's about it. If you're still with me, thanks for reading through the series and I hope its given you a few new tools and tricks to help you improve your research skills. I'm posting this research tips series under a Creative Commons Attribution license which means you're free to distribute it, use it for classes (as a student or a teacher), adapt it to your own needs, and the like --- as long as my work is attributed to me --- in addition to the usual rights you have to it under Fair Use provisions of copyright law.
If you've been impressed by this series, awesome! (You wouldn't happen to be hiring a research assistant would you? ;) ) If you have any tips of your own you'd like to share or if you have any feedback on this series, I'd love to hear from you :D .