This book offers clear, detailed, and often entertaining instructions for formulating hypothesis, doing pre-research, selecting appropriate research designs, selecting cases, collecting and managing both qualitative and quantitative data, preparing data for analysis, writing up research findings, practicing peer review, and delivering findings in posters and presentations, and preparing work for publication. Each chapter contains interesting and useful examples (both hypothetical and real), exercises to help students apply what they've learned, and pedagogical features to inspire, instructor, and aid further research, including Peer Pointers (quotes from former students that illustrate aha! moments), Talking Tips (fundamental and surprising tip for research), and appendix materials that include formatting guidelines and a list of major data sources for political science. Making the book as turnkey as possible are downloadable student and instructor resources, including lesson plans and activities for instructors, solutions manual to in-text exercises, links to common citation guides, data sources, journals that publish student papers, and conferences where students can share papers and posters. INDICE: Part I: The PreliminariesChapter1: From Research Topic to Research Question Doing Social Science Research Questions and This Course’s Research Project From Research Topic to Research Question Finding and Refining a Research Question Writing Your Paper Postlude Key TermsChapter 2: From Research Question to Theory to Hypothesis What is a Theory? From Question to Theory From Theory to Hypothesis Writing Your Theory Section Postlude Key TermsPart II: The PracticalitiesChapter 3: Doing Pre-Research The Parts of an Empirical Paper How to Think About Literature(s) How to Find Literature(s) How to Organize Literature(s) How to Write the Literature Review Postlude Key TermsChapter 4: Choosing a Design that Fits Your Question Types of Hypotheses Four Probabilistic Hypothesis Types Necessary and Sufficient Conditions What Type of Analysis Should I Conduct? Overview of Techniques Postlude Key TermsChapter 5: Case Selection and Study Design for Qualitative Research Qualitative Study Design Hypothesis-Testing Techniques and Case Selection Writing Your Methodology Section Postlude Key TermsChapter 6: Qualitative Data Collection and Management Information, Data, and Evidence Measurement Maximizing Leverage over Your Hypotheses Data Collection Techniques Sources and Resources Data Management Options Writing About Data Collection Postlude Key TermsChapter 7: Quantitative Data Collection and Management Identifying Data Needs: What Cases? Identifying Data Needs: What Variables? Measurement: Matching Concepts to Indicators Getting Ready-To-Use Data Collecting and Managing Your Own Data Postlude Key TermsChapter 8: Preparing Quantitative Data for Analysis Transferring Data into Your Stats Program Dealing with Missing Data Preparing to Analyze Your Data Other Data Manipulations The Theory-Data Danger Zone: Endogeneity, Simultaneity, and Omitted Variable Bias Postlude Key TermsChapter 9: Writing up Your Research The Abstract The Bookends The Results: Conventions of Reporting and Discussing Quantitative Analysis Discussing Qualitative Evidence and Claims Postlude Key TermsPart III: Post Paper ProcessesChapter 10: Practicing Peer Review Writing Without Whining Self-Editing Practicing Peer Review Writing Your Review of Peer Research Postlude Key TermsChapter 11: Posters, Presentations, and Publishing Presentations Posters Slip ‘n’ Slide Post-Paper Possibilities Brief Remarks on Graduate Study in Political Science and International Relations Postlude
- ISBN: 978-1-4833-6963-1
- Editorial: CQ Press
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 296
- Fecha Publicación: 31/01/2015
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