Help With Writing A Paper in the Social Sciences


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Writng a paper in the Social Sciences is based on analyzing and interpreting information gotten from observation, interviews, and experiments, not necessarily text based information like you use when writing a paper in the humanities. Writing a paper for a Social Science class such as economics, political science, psychology or sociology, requires more effort than simply reading something and writing a paper describing it. You must go beyond the facts that you are given to make deeper connections within the work.

Here are some things to keep in mind when writing a Social Sciences paper:

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