Reading Summaries—students must submit weekly summaries of three scholar

Reading Summaries—students must submit weekly summaries of three scholarly articles or
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books that they have chosen to read that fit with their research project. These summaries should
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include APSA compliant bibliographies along with summaries of approximately 150-250
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words (there is no penalty for exceeding this threshold though). The summaries must go beyond
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a publication’s abstract. Some topics that should be addressed in these summaries are:
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1. What is the central question being addressed?
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2. What is the author(s) thesis or main argument?
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3. What is the scope (what cases) and time period of the study in question?
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4. What methodology is used to assess the question being addressed? What data are used?
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5. What are the key findings from the study?
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6. What methodological and/or theoretical limitations are present in the study?