Developing a Research Question
Appropriate word(s) to start a research question with
What is why, how, to what extent and sometimes what?
These can be defined as "schools of thought"
What are Interests or Power-based approach, Institutional or Politics-oriented approach, Ideas or Principles, Intersectionality and Privilege, and Economic or Prosperity? (IIIIEs and 5 Ps)
Give examples of resources for identifying political science academic articles
What is Google Scholar, Web of Science, and UCF Libraries?
This is the writing style for this course
What is APA?
This refers to your expectations
What is a hypothesis?
Sole determinant of whether or not this RQ is appropriate
What is having the data to study it?
This portion of your final paper draft must focus on academic articles published in political science academic journals.
What is a literature review?
Provide the steps in distinguishing a "fake news" article from a reputable one
What is considering the source, checking the author, checking the date, reading beyond headlines/titles, look for supporting sources, identifying satire?
The characteristics of scientific research
What is knowledge, theory construction, verification, falsifiability, non-normative knowledge, normative knowledge, transmissible, and cumulative?
This offers insight on why and how factors are related
What is a theory?
This is the aim or ultimate goal of your RQ
What is learning about a new topic, learning how to complete research, and building on the work of scholars?
You are not likely to find disagreement (or contradictory findings) while completing your Literature Review
What is false?
Databases contain the publicly available data you are all required to use in your papers for this course
What is false?
This kind of research requires scholars to clearly state hypotheses or propositions that can be evaluated with actual objective observation of political phenomena
What is empirical research?
These are the individuals that are heavily-cited or well-known for writing on a specific topic
What is a "giant"?
This is the first step of the empirical research process
What is developing an appropriately worded RQ to study?
This is the first step in completing the literature review process
What is identifying "giants"?
This allows us to search for keywords related to our RQ
What is a database?
Give an overview of the research process
What is Developing RQ with considerations for available data understanding existing research, developing a theory and testable hypotheses, generating an appropriate research design, analysis and interpretation, and conclusion?
A pictorial representation
What is a model?
These can be helpful sources for ideas of RQs
What are newspaper editorials (I.e. Financial Times, NY Times)?
These are the major components of completing a literature review
What is scientific relevance, building a theory, disagreement in the literature, and data and methods?
If you find a useful source, this could help you identify additional sources by looking at the notes and references
What are pyramid citations?
This will guide the first half of your paper
What is a research question?
The main components of a relationship
What is dependence, co-variance, and association?