You will write a full blown research paper for this course that may be co-authored with one of your classmates

You will write a full blown research paper for this course that may be co-authored with one of your
classmates. It should take the basic form of a refereed journal article (like many you will be reading
for this course). That is, you need a research question grounded in theory, hypothesis generated
from that theory, an empirical evaluation of those hypothesis and a conclusion. I won’t require
the paper be quantitative, but my tendency is to think in those terms. There is no specic page
requirement, but my experience suggests that papers that are 15 pages of text or less tend to be
under-developed, while papers over 25-30 pages of text would often be better if they were shorter.
Note that one acceptable alternative would be a replication and extension of an existing published
paper. However, the extension needs to be meaningful. For those of you with ideas about a thesis,
this might be a great opportunity to pursue that work. The paper is due Monday, May 5th in class.
We will talk regularly about the paper over the course of the semester in class, and I expect
I’ll see most of you in my oce outside of class as well. I have several deadlines throughout the
semester where I expect you to show me progress. However, the only aspect of the paper that I
will grade will be the nal version of the paper you turn in. That said, it is VERY important that
you get started right away. You cannot write a quality paper over the weekend, and you need to
build in time for the inevitable problems with data, writing, etc. that occur.