Center for Global & International Studies
M.A. in Global and International Studies
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Research Resources
Do your required assignments this semester include an annotated bibliography? Has your thesis advisor asked for a literature review? Do you keep hearing that you should consider using an ethnographic approach for your research project but have no idea what this means? Are you just trying to figure out how to get started?
This page can serve as one jumping-off point for “how-to” resources for research in international studies and other areas in the social sciences to help you identify and develop the typical elements in a research paper and to offer a bit of guidance on where to start with each piece of the process.
On Reserve at the Edwards Campus Library
We have amassed a selection of “how-to” books about project design, research, and writing in the social sciences that will be available for 1-week check out. Titles and links to their tables of contents are below to help you determine which might be useful to you at each stage of your project. The books will be on reserve at the Edwards Campus Library under the “instructor” International Studies. Tell this to the desk staff and ask for the book you want by title.
Bell, Judith, Doing Your Research Project: A guide for first-time researchers in education, health, and social science, 4th ed. (New York: Open University Press, 2005).
Bell Table of Contents
Blaxter, Loraine, Christina Hughes and Malcolm Tight, How to Research, 3rd ed. (New York: Open University Press, 2006).
Blaxter et al. Table of Contents
Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams, The Craft of Research, 2nd ed. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003).
Booth et al. Table of Contents
Creswell, John W., Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches, 2nd ed. (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 2003).
Creswell Table of Contents
Druckman, Daniel, Doing Research: Methods of Inquiry for Conflict Analysis (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 2005).
Druckman Table of Contents
Hart, Chris, Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 2006).
Hart Table of Contents
Richards, Lyn and Janet M. Morse, README FIRST for a User’s Guide to Qualitative Methods, 2nd ed. (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 2007).
Richards and Morse Table of Contents
Turabian, Kate L., A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertation: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers, 7th ed. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007).
Turabian Table of Contents
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