Your Assignment

Your professor asks you to write a paper about a topic currently in the news. You can use either popular or scholarly articles to support your paper.

You have read there may be a possible link between an increase in autism and mercury, which has been used as a preservative in childhood vaccines. You decide to begin your research by using a general article index.

The next few screens will guide you through a sample, practice search

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