Social medias become a huge part of people’s life. How social medias develop and how do they
influence the society, people’s daily life and the way of thinking. Every thing has two sides.
Social media shortens the distance between people but increase the risk of privacy. Social media
provides a platform for everyone that people can give their opinion and thinking but some
comments or speech are too free so that some people are misled. Social media is connected with
politics, education, economy and so many areas in society.
To that end, the Research Paper contains the following, required items:
Introduction
Literature Review of differing perspectives on your topic
Summative integration and reflection on the ways the disciplines can work together
Conclusion
References
Each of these components break down as follows:
Introduction (aim for 1/2 to 3/4 page)
The introduction will serve to introduce the topic and idea to your audience (i.e. Stephanie and me). In this case, you need to construct an introduction that motivates an interest in the topic as well as introduces the basic necessities of understanding to your reader. To that end, your introduction should focus primarily on your issue of interest (the pay gap, for example).
Make sure there is a clear thesis of what your overall paper that situates your topic clearly and highlights that you’re presenting various viewpoints on this topic.
It should give some insight into the components that underlie that issue (define it, give a bit of history on it, and also present basic statistics for it, which you can obtain through places like newspaper articles or research organizations like Pew).
Remember: the introduction motivates the reader to want to know more, so it needs to stay focused on the issue that you want to address. If you have an annual review article, it can give you some great basic details for your introduction.
Literature Review (aim for about two-thirds of a page for each discipline here, so about 4 pages total)
For your literature review, you must use a minimum of 6 peer-reviewed, academic research articles. The literature review serves to fine tune your point further and helps you to focus on where you are most specifically interested, namely the key concepts, factors, and variables that you think influence the problem you are trying to understand.
You must have an article from the following disciplines on your topic: Anthropology, Economics, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology. Additionally, you must have an additional article that explicitly situates itself as an interdisciplinary approach to your topic.
For example, say you were interested in EDM festivals. For research articles, you can consider that the differing disciplines may look something like the following:
Anthropologists would likely do an ethnography of festivals to build out an understanding of the cultural facets of attendance
Economists could centralize a focus on the ways in which festivals are beneficial to local economies or the ways in which scalped festival tickets signal that base ticket prices can increase.
Political scientists may focus on the ways local municipalities respond to and create rules and limits on festival growth/expansion.
Psychologists could investigate the nature of euphoria and happiness that festival attendance induces.
Sociologists may investigate issues of access to see who can and who can’t attend.
The interdisciplinary approach is obviously more of a wild card depending upon what sorts of disciplines are being integrated.
For this section, you’re welcome to break it down into subsections alongside the differing disciplines.
So, the first section could be sociology. You’d note what sociology is/does (so, how is the discipline defined that is useful for your topic?) and then what your article does/finds. Be sure to make it clear why it is an example of sociology approaching that topic. So, it’s not just, “these authors did this” but also “and because sociology argues X, this article exemplifies it by doing Y.”
Summative integration (aim for about 1 page here)
This section is a space for you to address the ways in which these differing disciplines provide a more holistic vantage point on your topic. Because of this, you need to take what you’ve learned throughout the course, combined with the specific literature you’ve assembled, to explain how and why the differing vantages combined offer the best opportunity for understanding your chosen topic.
Work to make sure they integrate cleanly, clearly, and fully. Think: when we look across all of this disciplines, how can we understand this topic better by thinking with all these vantage points?
Do not take this section lightly as it is the section that signifies explicitly the purpose of this survey course.
Conclusions (aim for about .5 page here)
The conclusion reiterates your main research question and really offers the moment that you can fully make sure that everything brought home, as it were. You’re not merely reiterating exactly what you just said. Rather, you’re using it to make sure your reader understands the full ideas and implications. You should also articulate what it doesn’t address and that future papers can integrate to understand the topic more fully.
References (these go on their own page and you’ll probably have at least 7 references: the 6 you found plus the Eller text).
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