Fundamentally, academic research is the system of earned credibility through novel ideas. It is the slow, careful act of asking a new question, testing it with real methods, and offering something useful back to the field. In school you learn how to summarize what others found. In research you try to add one small but honest piece of knowledge to the pile. Here is the first thing colleges will not put in the brochures they put out to high school students: “Published” can mean

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