grad student 101 workshop
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Grad Student 101 Workshop. Instructor: Heidi Lyons. Finding a Topic. Look at the Articles in the Syllabus Initial Exploration Academic Search Premier Google Scholar Talk to Your Professor!. Research Question. Narrow your Focus What Relationship do you Want to Look at? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Grad Student 101 Workshop
Instructor: Heidi Lyons
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Finding a Topic
Look at the Articles in the Syllabus Initial Exploration– Academic Search Premier– Google Scholar
Talk to Your Professor!
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Research Question
Narrow your Focus– What Relationship do you Want to Look
at?
Is the Question Clear?Does your Question fit into Previous Work?Is the Study Possible?
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Is the Study Possible?
ICPSR– www.icpsr.umich.edu
CFDR Data Holdings
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Doing Research
BGSU University Libraries– SocINDEX– Social Science Citation Index
• Subject Index• Source Index• Citation Index
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Other Databases
Sociological AbstractsGenderWatchEthnic NewsWatchOhio Link
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Finding Major Journals
BGSU University Libraries– Journal of Marriage and the Family
• Browse • Search
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Searching Hints
And, Or, NotUsing “#” or “*”– Adopt*– Wom*n
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Record-Keeping for your Sources
Index Cards/ExcelTopicMethodsSignificant FindingsOther Comments
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Record-Keeping for your Sources
– Authors Full Names in Order– Journals : journal name, date, volume
number, and page number
– Books : book name, city of publication, publisher’s name, publication
date
Example: Adolescence References
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Introduction
Outline the Research QuestionWhy is this Important?What are you Going to do?
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Literature Review
The Relationship Between Your Study and Previous WorkHow Your Paper is Different Do Not Make it a Laundry List
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Literature Review
Start Broad and End NarrowOnly Report what Directly Relates to Your Question
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Lit Review Structure
Look at Peer Review JournalsElaborate on your TheoryDiscuss Previous Research Statement of the Problem
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Stating you Hypotheses
Formal Relational Statement– Clear– Type (Casual or Correlational)– Direction (Positive or Negative)– Imply that it is Testable
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Stating you Hypotheses
Bad: Attitudes and Union Type is Associated with Infidelity.
Good: H1: Controlling for sexual values, attending
religious services more frequently is associated with lower likelihood of infidelity.
H2: Cohabiting is associated with a greater likelihood of infidelity.
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Methods
SampleMeasuresProcedures/Data Analysis
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Sample
Data– Sample Size– How were Subjects/Recruited?– Nonresponse– Any Oversampling – General Sample Selection
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Measures
Operationalize Variables– Open VS Close-ended Questions– Range of Response – Scales
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Procedures
How are you Going to do it?What Statistics are you Using?
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CFDR Help!
Ask Meredith for Programming Help – Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 1-2 p.m.
CFDR Webpage– Annoted Output– SAS/SPSS/STATA Questions