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Students in the MA DevGov program come from different academic backgrounds and might have to adapt to new working methods, course requirements and teaching styles. Main learning goal is for students to gain all relevant knowledge about research practice and familiarity with academic standards in German universities.
The course covers the following aspects: different types of academic text production and how to deal with it; positionality and basics of research processes, techniques of efficient reading and making excerpts; how to handle large amounts of literature; how to use the UDE library; databases (SSCI) and identifying good literature; software to manage citations, how to make good seminar presentations, Standards of citation, and how to avoid plagiarism. Main steps in writing a seminar paper (problem statement, identifying a research question; identifying good literature), structuring an argument; organizing the writing process; formal aspects of writing seminar papers, self-organization
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| Literatur |
As an introduction:
Baglione, Lisa: Writing a Research Paper in Political Science, Sage
Turabian, Kate L.:, A Manual for Writers of Research papers, Theses and Dissertations, Univ. of Chicago Press |
| Bemerkung |
This course is an introduction to international students about research standards but also a more general introduction to academic standards in Germany. It consists of a seminar plus a compulsory tutorial.
Main topics covered are: Different types of academic text production and how to deal with it; Techniques of efficient reading and making excerpts; how to handle large amounts of literature; Writing a seminar paper: the main steps (problem statement, identifying a research question; identifying good literature); Standards of citation, and how to avoid plagiarism; how to use our library; databases (SSCI); software to manage citations; formal aspects of writing seminar papers; structuring your argument; Organising the writing process; How to make good seminar presentations.
Participation in the seminar is reserved for students of MA Development and Governance. |
