Grad Student 101 Workshop Instructor: Heidi Lyons

CFDR Fall 2006 Workshop Series2 Finding a Topic Look at the Articles in the Syllabus Initial Exploration –Academic Search PremierAcademic Search Premier –Google ScholarGoogle Scholar Talk to Your Professor!

CFDR Fall 2006 Workshop Series3 Research Question Narrow your Focus –What Relationship do you Want to Look at? Is the Question Clear? Does your Question fit into Previous Work? Is the Study Possible?

CFDR Fall 2006 Workshop Series4 Is the Study Possible? ICPSR – CFDR Data Holdings

CFDR Fall 2006 Workshop Series5 Doing Research BGSU University Libraries –SocINDEX –Social Science Citation Index Subject Index Source Index Citation Index

CFDR Fall 2006 Workshop Series6 Other Databases Sociological Abstracts GenderWatch Ethnic NewsWatch Ohio Link

CFDR Fall 2006 Workshop Series7 Finding Major Journals BGSU University Libraries –Journal of Marriage and the Family Browse Search

CFDR Fall 2006 Workshop Series8 Searching Hints And, Or, Not Using “#” or “*” –Adopt* –Wom*n

CFDR Fall 2006 Workshop Series9 Record-Keeping for your Sources Index Cards/Excel Topic Methods Significant Findings Other Comments

CFDR Fall 2006 Workshop Series10 Record-Keeping for your Sources –Authors Full Names in Order –Journals : journal name, date, volume number, and page number –Books : book name, city of publication, publisher’s name, publication date Example: Adolescence References

CFDR Fall 2006 Workshop Series11 Introduction Outline the Research Question Why is this Important? What are you Going to do?

CFDR Fall 2006 Workshop Series12 Literature Review The Relationship Between Your Study and Previous Work How Your Paper is Different Do Not Make it a Laundry List

CFDR Fall 2006 Workshop Series13 Literature Review Start Broad and End Narrow Only Report what Directly Relates to Your Question

CFDR Fall 2006 Workshop Series14 Lit Review Structure Look at Peer Review Journals Elaborate on your Theory Discuss Previous Research Statement of the Problem

CFDR Fall 2006 Workshop Series15 Stating you Hypotheses Formal Relational Statement –Clear –Type (Casual or Correlational) –Direction (Positive or Negative) –Imply that it is Testable

CFDR Fall 2006 Workshop Series16 Stating you Hypotheses Bad: Attitudes and Union Type is Associated with Infidelity. Good: H1: Controlling for sexual values, attending religious services more frequently is associated with lower likelihood of infidelity. H2: Cohabiting is associated with a greater likelihood of infidelity.

CFDR Fall 2006 Workshop Series17 Methods Sample Measures Procedures/Data Analysis

CFDR Fall 2006 Workshop Series18 Sample Data –Sample Size –How were Subjects/Recruited? –Nonresponse –Any Oversampling –General Sample Selection

CFDR Fall 2006 Workshop Series19 Measures Operationalize Variables –Open VS Close-ended Questions –Range of Response –Scales

CFDR Fall 2006 Workshop Series20 Procedures How are you Going to do it? What Statistics are you Using?

CFDR Fall 2006 Workshop Series21 CFDR Help! Ask Meredith for Programming Help –Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 1-2 p.m. CFDR Webpage –Annoted Output –SAS/SPSS/STATA Questions