Writing a Research Paper in Political Science: A Practical Guide to Inquiry, Structure, and Methods

Fourth Edition

by Lisa A. Baglione

Student Resources

So You Have to Write a Research Paper
- General Resources
Getting Started: Finding a Research Question
- Worksheets
Learning Proper Citation Forms, Finding the Scholarly Debate, and Summarizing and Classifying Arguments: The Annotated Bibliography
- Worksheets
Making Sense of the Scholarly Answers to Your Research Questions: Writing the Literature Review
- Worksheets
Effectively Distilling Your Argument: The Thesis, Model, and Hypothesis
- Worksheets
Revising and Editing Your Work: The Research-Writing-Thinking Spiral
- General Resources
Making Your Plan and Protecting Yourself from Criticism: The Research Design
- Worksheets
Evaluating the Argument: The Analysis and Assessment Section
- Worksheets
Bringing the Paper Together in Essential Ways: The Conclusion, Introduction, Title, Abstract, and the Utility of a Presentation
- Worksheets
- General Resources

Resources to help students through the process of writing a research paper.

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