Academic Writing Seminar - JMMZ107

• Title: Academic Writing Seminar
• Guaranteed by: Department of German and Austrian Studies (23-KNRS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2018
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, MC [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / 5 (5)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: Pamela Danielle Cotte, M.A.
• Teacher(s): Pamela Danielle Cotte, M.A.
• Is pre-requisite for: JMMZ147

Annotation

Last update: PhDr. Soňa Mikulová, Ph.D. (18.02.2017)

The aim of the course is twofold. First, it will acquaint the students with the standards of academic writing in social sciences and humanities and prepare them for a sure application of these skills for writing their papers. Second, it will discuss some notable examples of different methodological approaches in social sciences and humanities.

Course structure:
1. Introduction to the course
2. Choosing a topic, compiling a bibliography
3. Sources: archival, press, interviews, data
4. How to write an academic text
5. Methodology: a case study
6. Methodology: a comparison
7. Gender History
8. Oral History
9. Cultural History
10. Everyday History
11. Presentation and discussion of papers

Literature

Last update: PhDr. Soňa Mikulová, Ph.D. (18.02.2017)

Literature:

Gerring, John. Social Science Methodology: A Unified Framework. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Iggers, Georg G. Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 2005.

King, Gary, Robert O. Keohane, and Sidney Verba. Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.

 

Further recommended reading:

Becker, Howard S. Writing for Social Scientist. How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article. 2nd ed. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Berg, Bruce L. Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences. 4th ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2001.

Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. 3rd ed. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Box-Steffensmeier, Janet, Henry E. Brady, and David Collier. Eds. The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Brady, Henry E., and David Collier. Eds. Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards. 2nd ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2010.

Collier, David, and John Gerring. Concepts & Method in Social Science: The Tradition of Giovanni Sartori. New York, NY: Routledge, 2008.

Crang, Mike, and Ian Cook. Doing Ethnographies. London: SAGE, 2007.

Creswell, John W. Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998.

Gebremedhin, Tesfa G., and Luther G. Tweeten. Research Methods and Communication in the Social Sciences. Westport: Praeger, 1994.

George, Alexander L., and Andrew Bennett. Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2005.

Gerring, John. Case Study Research. Principles and Practices. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Goertz, Gary. Social Science Concepts: A User’s Guide. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Goertz, Gary, and James Mahoney. A Tale of Two Cultures: Qualitative and Quantitative Research in Social Sciences. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012.

Hancock, Dawson R., and Bob Algozzine. Doing Case Study Research. A Practical Guide for Beginning Researchers. New York: Teachers College Columbia University, 2006.

Jaccard, James, and Jacob Jacoby. Theory Construction and Model-Building Skills: A Practical Guide for Social Scientists. New York: Guilford, 2010.

Körner, Ann M. Guide to Publishing a Scientific Paper. London: Routledge, 2008.

Kouba, Karel. Metody příčinného vysvětlení v kvalitativním politologickém výzkumu. Disertační práce. UP Olomouc, 2011.

Landman, Todd. Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics: An Introduction. 3rd ed. Abingdon: Routledge, 2008.

Mouton, Johann, and H.C. Marais. Basic Concepts in the Methodology of the Social Sciences. Pretoria, HCRS, 1996.

Oruc, A. Yavuz. Handbook of Scientific Proposal Writing. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2012.

Pennings, Paul, Hans Keman, and Jan Kleinnijenhuis. Doing Research in Political Science. An Introduction to Comparative Methods and Statistics. 2nd ed. London: Sage, 2006.

Ragin, Charles C. Redesigning Social Inquiry. Fuzzy Sets and Beyond. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Ragin, Charles C. The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1987.

Seale, Clive, David Silverman, Jaber F. Gubrium, and Giampietro Gobo. Eds. Qualitative Research Practice. Concise Paperback Edition. London: SAGE, 2006.

Schutt, Russell K. Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research. 7th ed. London: SAGE, 2011.

Sorenson, Sharon. Webster’s New World Student Writing Handbook. 5th ed. Hoboken: Wiley, 2010.

Sprinz, Detlef F., and Yael Wolinsky-Nahmias. Eds. Models, Numbers, and Cases: Methods for Studying International Relations. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2004.

The Chicago Manual of Style. 16th edition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Turabian, Kate L. Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. 7th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Williams, Joseph M. Style. Lessons in Clarity and Grace. 9th ed. New York: Pearson and Longman, 2006.

van Evera, Stephen. Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.

Woods, Peter. Successful Writing for Qualitative Researchers. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2006.

Yin, Robert K. Case Study Research: Design and Methods. 3rd Ed. London: SAGE, 2003.