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Social Sciences Quiz
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" Try your luck with the above quiz on Sociology. Answer the questions as if you
were a member of the research community. If you want to learn more about that community, or about
other communities in the social sciences, keep reading!" |
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"The role is your connection to all those social groups. Like when you play the role of daughter or son or significant other, then that's what links you to a particular grouping of people. And you may play many roles and you're integrated with many groupings of people, some of which are as small as just a friendship group, some of which may be big like the college or education as an institution." Linda Deutschmann, Sociologist. The interview with Dr. Deutschmann will help you learn more about key definitions (like "roles"), about writing the Sociology paper, about the community of scholars called "sociologists"--and about Sociology in general. - Go to Sociology Interview |
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If you want to learn more about writing history essays, go directly to the interview with Dr. John
Belshaw. He maintains that the field of history straddles two areas: the humanities and the
social sciences. To succeed in history, you must be able to tell a good story--history is a "narrative
art," says Belshaw--and you must be able to analyze the data. |
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In addition to the interviews, this site features a variety of essays offering advice on how to write in the different disciplines. If you have ever wondered how to integrate quotations, prepare for essay exams, or find topics that work, go directly to the research essays now. - Go to the Research Essays |
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"I think that educational psychologists in general are more quantitative in their approach [than practicing teachers].
Most elementary teachers, I think, are looking more reflectively. There’s a big
emphasis on the 'teacher as researcher.' What we are trying to
encourage teachers to do is to take command of their own classrooms and
look at the problems and pose research questions for themselves and do
the research in their classroom and make decisions for themselves. Our writing reflects this. "
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Feel free to send material on "Writing in the Humanities" for inclusion
or linking to this site. Enquiries should be sent to Dr. W.F. Garrett-Petts
via e-mail: petts@tru.ca or via snail mail: The Writing in the Disciplines Web Site |
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"There's not just a generic "A" paper. Certainly there are some
differences between "A" papers and "B" papers and "C" papers. The "A"
paper has some real ideas in it, is very well researched, and is
properly written. If you've got really serious grammatical problems and
you're not communicating-- you're using the right words, but you're not
putting them together properly-- you're not going to get an "A." But the content
is crucial. I had one student...the first paper I read here after coming to UCC started off,
"this paper is to grasp the horrific problem of prostitution." You can see that
this student really started off badly: while it is nice to tell your reader
what the paper is about, but this opening is prejudgmental.
Prostitution is a horrific problem if you're living in a
community where you've got prostitutes plying their trade on your
front lawn. That's a horrific problem. But to start off your essay that
way is just not very professional sounding. As I remember it, the essay
was actually not a badly researched essay--but the way it started
meant it was never going to be an "A" paper. After the first sentence, it
couldn't be an "A" paper."
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