Exam 3: Beginning the Research Process: Identifying a Research Topic, Developing Research Questions, and Reviewing the Literature

Books and articles written by political scientists and other academics or political practitioners are good examples of ___________ sources.

Each of the following can be used as shortcuts when reading the literature in your literature review, except

What information should you include in a citation of an electronic source?

Which of the following is not considered to be a nonscholarly source?

Each of the following is among the many reasons to review previous research in a literature review for an empirical research project, except

Why are research questions that focus on normative issues inappropriate for the empirical study of political science?

Newspapers, magazines, television news programs, and Internet blogs are all examples of ___________ sources.

A relationship between two variables can be described by each of the following, except

An Internet search engine like Yahoo is best used to find _________ sources.

Which of the following is an important purpose of a literature review?

A(n) ___________ is often found at the beginning of scholarly article and will usually include a description of the contents of an article, including the research question, the theory and hypotheses, the data and methods used to test the hypotheses, and the results and conclusions.

A relationship between two variables can be described by each of the following, except

A ________________ is a systematic examination and interpretation of the literature for the purpose of informing further work on a topic.

Which of the following is an important characteristic of empirical political science research questions, except

Why would it be better to use a search engine like Google Scholar or database like the Social Science Citation index or JSTOR instead of a search engine like Yahoo to find sources for a political science research paper?

A search engine like JSTOR is best used to find ___________ sources.

Please provide an example of an empirical research question and an example of a normative research question. What is the difference between the two questions?

Which of the following is not considered to be a scholarly source?

Which of the following would not be a good topic to discuss in a literature review?

What is the purpose of a literature review? Why would you include one in a research paper?