POLSCI 2J03 Lecture Notes - Socalled, Nations Of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Unemployment Benefits

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 2J03
• Professor: Robert O' Brien

Document Summary

Good proposals communicate to the reader in as much detail as possible. Proposal to cover: general idea of the investigation. Describe to the reader the assumptions: central research question. Single sentence focusing on a single issue, contradiction, puzzle or dilemma. Paper written for this course is in response to a question". Analyzing why did something happen, the causes? : need to explain how the topic is related to the textbook. Have to be able to convince the t. a; what the relationship between investigating and what is being studied. How does it fit the themes of the course or empirical context. Essential: describe how you will pursue the research question - topics that will be looked at! E. g development in sub-saharan africa (what factors have inhibited development in sub-saharan africa) : look at the history of colonialism, resource, artificial political boundaries, deteriorating terms of commodities, annotated bibliography. Have to have had at least looked at it or an abstract of it!