How to Write an Empirical Social Science Paper POL573 Quantitative Analysis III
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The final project is the most important requirement of this course. The goal is to conduct a project that can be eventually developed into a high-quality publishable paper. During this process, you should always have the following question in mind: Whose mind are you trying to impact in what way? Your contribution is judged solely based on the new knowledge you bring to the scientific community. Why should one care about your paper? What makes your paper different from the existing research? You write a paper in order to convince your (skeptical) colleagues why they should change their way of thinking after reading your paper. I encourage you to keep working on your project after this course, and I am happy to continue to provide guidance along the way. In the past, some papers based on final projects for this course appeared in refereed journals. Here are two very recent examples:
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تاریخ انتشار 2013