- Feel
free to submit outline or questions via e-mail at any time for feedback
prior to conference. Will facilitate the face-to-face discussion louden@wfu.edu
- Come
prepared with a hypothesis or hypotheses you plan to examine (a clear
declarative statement of what is to be tested).
- Indicate
the materials (and availability) you will examine (There are so many
primary materials at thePolitical
Comm links site it boggles the mind).
- Do
some preliminary bibliography work. Obviously it is helpful to do some
preliminary reading on your topic of interest before deciding what the
project entails. Bibliography that can be searched for relevant articles can be found at Political Spot Bibliography
- If
your project takes the form of examining a body of primary materials
you may want to work in groups (although individual projects are encourage).
This
is research project, not a normal term paper. Thus you would want
a "review of literature," method, results, & discussion sections
in some fashion. Journal articles you read for the project can serve
as models.
Hint: To
find an appropriate project you may want to peruse. Avoid settling too early on a topic or looking only at topics
were have covered in class at that point. Allow your natural curiosity
about events or items you have observed in political advertising lead you to an appropriate research question. Remember to narrow,
narrow, narrow, the focus of your research question. If you have
no idea, just pursuing the bibs should help generate ideas. Also there
are amazing materials available on web sites.
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