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Doctoral Student Writing For Scholarly Career-Building: Teaching Experiences And Student Outcomes, Michael P. Johnson Jr. May 2019

Doctoral Student Writing For Scholarly Career-Building: Teaching Experiences And Student Outcomes, Michael P. Johnson Jr.

Michael P. Johnson

The Public Policy PhD course PPOL-G 704 Research Methods II was originally designed as a guided tour of analytic methods for second-year students that included a paper that highlighted an application of methods presented in the class to a subject of their choosing. When I inherited this course in Fall 2012, I changed the focus of the final paper requirement to one that reflected original research, using any convenient analytic method and research design, that aspired to the quality of a peer-reviewed conference or journal submission. I also redesigned the class experience to include ongoing student reviews of each others’ …