This document discusses research skills for creative arts students. It covers establishing debatable thesis statements, avoiding logical fallacies like slippery slope arguments and ad hominem attacks, and evaluating resources. Students are advised to consider whether a statement is truly debatable, avoid flawed logical arguments, and check sources for authorial bias, ability to verify facts, emotional language, and advertising when conducting research. Students are also instructed to pair up and use an evaluation document to analyze websites in Google Classroom for accuracy and bias.