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POLI 691H: Honors Seminar in Research Design: Home
Research Design
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Sage Research MethodsLibrary of research methods tools. Learn about quantitative and qualitative methods in the Little Green Book and Little Blue Book series, practice data analysis, and use the Project Planner tool to organize research projects. Also included are social research case studies, videos, datasets for teaching and instruction, and analytical tools.
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What Makes a Good Research Question?Handout from Duke University's Thompson Writing Program Writing Studio. Has good guidelines for and examples of research questions in the social sciences.
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The Writing CenterVisit UNC's Writing Center to make appointments, find writing tips, and access handouts useful for writing literature reviews and research papers.
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The Writing Center: Honors Theses HandoutAddresses all the stages of the thesis writing process.
Strategy for Finding Data & Statistics
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Strategy for Finding Statistics & Data (Accessible Version)Suggested strategies and questions to ask as you search for statistics and data for your projects.
Finding Books
Start with a keyword search in the catalog. Once you have located a relevant item, you can look at the Subjects in the record and follow those links to find related books.
You can also refine your results by using the facets on the left side of the screen.
- Keyword: compulsory voting or compulsory voting and united states
- Associated Subject Heading: Voting, Compulsory
- Associated Subject Heading: Political participation
- Keyword: sports and unions
- Associated Subject Heading: Athletes -- Labor unions
- Associated Subject Heading: Professional sports -- Economic aspects
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WorldCatOCLC's WorldCat is the world's largest union catalog containing of millions bibliographic records for items in the collections of thousands of libraries from many countries. This database includes all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries in several hundred languages.
Honors Theses @ UNC
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Carolina Digital RepositoryAll UNC Honors Theses are deposited in the CDR.
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POLI Honors ThesesDirect link to POLI theses, so you can browse some from the past few years. Could be helpful to see structure, format, length, etc.
Carolina BLU
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Citation Resources
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Nancy Lovas
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Locating Data
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Data Management
Numeric Data
Census Data
Locating Data
If you would like to request we acquire data, please carefully read the guidelines at http://library.unc.edu/data/purchase/.