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EXCEL:
1. To create a new line in a single cell, press Alt + Enter. Pressing just enter will move you down to the next cell.
2. Use the Merge& Centre tool int he ribbon to merge two or more cells together and give yourself more room to write. This works horizontally or vertically.
WRITING:
1. THESIS WHISPERER CHEAT SHEET: This website has a great list of active verbs you can use to describe what other people say: http://bit.ly/verb-cheat-sheet
2. ACADEMIC PHRASEBANK: This website is a general resource for academic writers. It provide examples of some of the phraseological ‘nuts and bolts’ of writing organised according to the main sections of a research paper or dissertation. |
| (Author, Year) | Name of journal or title of book, website, or other source that you are using.
You could also put the article title here if it helps you keep track of which source you are looking at. But most scholarly work does not usually mention the title of the article. | Describe the main argument or research findings of the research article here.
Use active verbs and put their argument into your own words as much possible so you use this text in your paper as much as possible without having to cite quotes too much. | Describe the evidence that the author uses to back up their argument. What was their method? A survey? A content analysis? Focus groups? Interviews?
Who was in their sample? Did they survey college students? How did they contact the people in their sample? Or collect other types of data? | If you end up with articles on a couple of different categories, it can be helpful to keep track of which articles fall into which category. |
| Use this box to add your own notes about how you'll use this source in your paper or critique the source. Put this in your own words so that when you go to write your paper, you've got text already written and you don't need to worry about looking up and citing specific quotes. |
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EXAMPLE | Telecommunications Policy
Who shapes network neutrality policy debate? An examination of information subsidizers in the mainstreat media and at Congressional and FCC hearings | Spokespeople for corpations "played a signifcant role in the net neutrality policy debate" (p. 322). 55% of the sitness at Congressional hearings on the issue of net neutrality were from companies or industry organizations.
While corporate and industry interests were very well represented, there does appear to be an increase in information form advocacy groups at Congressional hearings, which the authors attribute to the growing role of "advocacy democracy" that allows individual citizens to become more inovolved in the democratic process. | Used Lexis Nexis and Lexis Nexis Congressional to identify news stories and Congressional hearings around the net neutrality debate from Feb 2004-Jan 2009.
They analyzed the stories and Congressional transcripts to identify who had been the source of information (subsidy) for the story or hearing. | net neutrality
section 2 reviews history of net neutrality debate, sources here useful for reviewing the overall question of net neutrality and defining what it means |
| In this section, I might describe how this research fits into my overall literature review or even write out the paragraph where I'll use this research. Remember with the literature review, you shouldn't just list the articles you found. You'll need to tell an overall story about the research in a specific area and use the research you found to back up your argument. In particular you need to think about how the research helps you to answer your research questions (or not). |
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