Writing A Research paper in Political Science chaps 1-3

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1. draft question 2. sharpen question, write literature reviews 3. anaylisis and assesment 4. rework proceding parts of paper, develop conclusions, introductions, titles
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4 insallments of writing a research paper
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1. develop topic & question and find sources 2. identify, classify, explain, and evaluate sources 3. develop a thesis 4. develop a model and hypothesis 5. revise 6. edit 7. plan the study (identify appropriate cases to study) 8. Evaluate the hypothesis or thesis 9. write conclusion 10. write introduction
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9 steps to a research paper
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-communicates question and thesis -entices people to read paper -provides a roadmap/snapshot of entire paper
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A good introduction
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1. topics are too broad 2. a question links you to a controversy 3. forces you to provide an answer
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Why a question not a topic
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1. interesting 2. important 3. direct 4. short 5. doable 6. puzzling
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5 qualities of a good question
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when students seek to describe everything they have learned from other research
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report trap
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policymakers, scholars, citizens
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ask yourself, why is my topic interesting to these three groups
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suprising given what we know typically means linking something empirical with your topic of interest
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what makes a question puzzling
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to what extent what impact given ----, why is given ----, how is how or under what conditions is why
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Good opening phrases
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1. is there correlation? Causation? 2. extent to which the research helps to solve a particular problem 3. what the nature of the evidence is
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three factors distinguish research
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insight that some effect varies with some other factor
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Theory advancing/ public policy resaearch
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applied
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Public Policy research
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seeks to move our conceptual understandings forward, identifying weaknesses and strengths in existing approaches -encouraged to do this type of research in most empirical courses
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theory advancing research
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encouraged to do this type of research in theory class
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conceptual research
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questions inspired by phenomena of importance in the real world that require you to use theory and evidence to answer them
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middle range questions
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1. uncover authors and sources that are most important 2. locate multiple competing arguments 3. understand precisely the implications of differing claims
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3 steps to Finding Sources
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APA or Chicago
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styles for political science
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attibute ideas, information, as well as quotes and data to original authors
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to avoid plagiarism you must...
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a summary of the arguments of a work as well as key information about the cases and the findings
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AB (annotation of bibliography)
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scholars tend to be proffesors working at universities or employed at think-tanks, public policy, or governmental institutions -scholarly journals tend to have footnotes and bibliographies
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How to identify Scholars
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edited volumes that contain a collection of articles written by different authors and course packs
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Anthologies
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1. perform search using Online Library of Congress or your reaserch universities library -the dots in front of the authors name indicate how relevant the search results are going to be given the terms used -if the authors name appears first, and then again after the title then it is not an anthology 2. The titles are hypertext and you can click on them for more information 3. the publication date is provided (better to use more recent sources)
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Searching for Sources
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Paradigm Publishers Yale university press CQ Press W.W Norton Rowman & Littlefeild Routledge Lynne Rienner
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Reliable publishers
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scholarly work on a relatively narrow topic
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Monograph
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displayed by clicking on the hypertext that follows "LCCN Permalink" shows chapters thus giving you a greater sense of what the book focuses on allows you to find other works written by the author
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Matrices
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Academic Search Primer ProQuest Projet MUSE JSTOR search using key concepts and others you found while searching OLC database searching gives you abstracts that summarize the article
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Data bases
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Interest Based- assert that actors make decisions that maximize their priorities Institutional- focus on the rules and structures of institutions and show that these established routines or patterns have an impact on outcomes Ideas- a catchall term for ideas, identities, cultures Economic- or socioeconomic
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Schools of thought to divide AB into
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1.) research question 2.) sources (written as bibliographic entries in a uniform matter) 3.) summaries of the sources and their arguments 4.) characterize the School (give the approach a label)
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What to include in AB
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