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EXERCISE

POLS 365

FINDING SCHOLARLY LITERATURE

NAME:

A. Find one or preferably two sources related to ONE of your research questions. More specifically, they should be related to the issue you are trying to explain (your dependent variable).

· The source must be an academic journal (preferably a Political Science journal). Only use articles published after 1980. If you provide two sources, one of them must be an academic article.

· Remember that you have to open the article and read the abstract (if available) or the introduction in order to determine whether or not the article is related to your research. In academic journals, the title often contains the name of the dependent variable, but the title is not enough to allow you to determine whether the article is related to your research.

B. Include the citation in a Word document and upload it to Blackboard. Make sure the following information is included. You can use any citation style. Remember that you can email yourself the citation to make things easier.

1. Name of the author(s)

2. Name of article

3. Name of journal

4. Date of publication

C. Articles often have “abstracts” at the beginning. If that is the case, copy and paste the abstract in the same Word document. If there is no abstract read the introduction of the article and write a summary in your own words (one paragraph).