Semester Paper
Introduction to Research Methods k
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General Instructions for the Semester Paper
Each student will complete a semester paper due in stages throughout the term. The   completed paper is due during finals week. You will receive feedback on each stage, which will enable you to correct problems prior to final submission. Because you need to correct the problems found on each submission, it is important for you to retain this preliminary work throughout the semester.
Data sets you may use:

(a) 1998 General Social Survey - check the "data" link on the left
(b) Another data set you are already using (Requires special permission from the instructor)

Approximately one stage of the semester paper will be due each week of the term.  Use the links below to view the instructions for each stage.

Stage 1 - Research Topic
Stage 2 - Notes on, and copy of, 1 journal article you will use in your literature review
 Stage 3 - Descriptive statistics for 1 question/variable
 Stage 4 - Notes on all three journal articles you will use in your literature review
 Stage 5 - 2 research hypotheses and variable names
 Stage 6 - Draft of literature review and references sections
 Stage 7 - Draft of hypotheses section
 Stage 8 - Recoding responses and revised descriptive statistics
 Stage 9 - Draft of methods section
 Stage 10 - 2 x 2 Crosstab tables
 Stage 11 - Draft of the results section
 Stage 12 - Final, complete, and corrected research paper