it has to be about the central question, the hypothesis derived from the central question, and a preliminary bibliography about “impact of security threats from North Korea on the South Korean stock market”
I want you to think like What is your “why” question? Based on the topic Why is the South Korean stock market responsive to security threats from North Korea such that when the security environment is threatening, the South Korean stock market falls and when the environment is more benign, it rises? what are the factors that explain this connection that incorporate the border literature into the paper?
* How would you reformulate your research topic in the form of a researchable “why” question to which you can offer an educated guess as an answer? Avoid writing a narrative paper that just offers a chronology with information and data. So, write a “why” question and list the factors (or independent variables) that explain your “why” question: this is occurring or is the case because of XYZ factors. This will be your hypothesis. The only way to think about a research question and a hypothesis is to read the scholarly literature on this question. Your task then is to read a few scholarly articles that you will include in your preliminary bibliography.
USE FORMAT : General Topic
• What is the topic in which you are interested?
Research or Analytical Question
• After reading material on the topic, can you formulate an interesting question or questions about the topic? This should be a “why” question and you should have a hypothesis about the “why?” What follows the “because” are your independent variables.
Hypothesis
• Formulate a hypothesis based on the question(s) that interest you. A hypotheis is an educated guess that posits a cause-effect relationship between two sets of variables.
Analytical/Conceptual Perspective
• A hypothesis is generally informed by an analytical perspective. This is the “educated” part of your guess. Identify the model/concept that informs your hypothesis.
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Resources for Writing and Hypothesis Development
Seven Steps for Powerful Paper Writing
1. Brainstorm
Gather all the things you know about the question
2. Categorize
How can each of the pieces of information be grouped?
What questions or new ideas do these groupings suggest?
3. Critique
What are the strengths and limitations of each category or argument? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
What would be the criticisms leveled by other theoretical perspectives?
4. Order
How could we order these categories or arguments?
5. Outline
Introduction
Tell the reader what the question you are addressing is and what main
points you will be addressing. Be sure to articulate your hypothesis. Body
Break your analysis into three to five main themes/points with a subsection for each.
Explain and critique each main theme/point. Conclusion
Tell your reader what the question you addressed was and what main points you made and what you concluded about your subject. Did your analysis uphold your hypothesis? Why or why not?
6. Write
Turn your ideas into sentences and paragraphs. Sentences should average ten words in length. Paragraphs should be approximately five sentences. Write in the active voice.
7. Edit
“Powerful papers are not written. They are rewritten.” Check spelling.
Check grammar.
Cut everything not essential to the paper.
Create smooth transitions from idea to idea.
Bibliography
William Strunk, E. B White, The Elements of Style, 1995. Annie Dillard, The Writing Life, 1990.
