30 Aug Here’s paper guide:1. Getting started: (a) Choosing your emp

Here’s paper guide:1. Getting started: (a) Choosing your empirical case: Try to choose a movement whose boundaries you can clearly identify (e.g., anti-sweatshop movement on US college campuses during 2000-2003), rather than something too vague or general (e.g., the anti-globalization movement). Your case does not have to cover the entire life course of a movement; instead, you can focus on a specific period that seemed particularly significant to the development, success, or demise of the movement(b) Deciding your theoretical question: Pick one of the following themes as the focus of your paper: emergence, recruitment and mobilization, movement culture, collective identity, framing, the role of social media, and movement outcomes and influences. Then, develop the theme into a specific research question for your empirical case. For example, if you are interested in the theme of mobilization, and your empirical case is the anti-sweatshop activism, then your research question might be, “Which campus organizations were most effective in recruiting students for the movement, and why?2. Collecting data: For the purpose of writing this paper, you will collect your data from news articles. You may also supplement your news articles with documentaries or video clips available on the web, although this is entirely optional. For the print media, there are a few databases available through the University library’s website, e.g., LexisNexis Academic (http://www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/lnacademic/?). For documentaries or video clips available on the web, use your discretion to choose materials that are trustworthy and appropriate, and be sure to consider the contexts in which the videos are produced rather than taking them at face value. Not all research questions are answerable by these data sources, so be sure to start early and make sure that you can find enough materials. Aim to collect 10-15 news articles as your data. You may want to collect more (e.g. 20 articles) and then choose the best 10-15 to focus on. 3. Analysis: Study your data and use them to answer your question. Look for patterns and trends as well as representative quotes. It is OK if your data do not provide a complete answer to your question; just be clear about what the data did or did not answer.4. Writing: Write a coherent essay that includes the following sections, to be clearly marked as different sections in your essay:(a) Introduction: Introduce the general theme, the specific research question, and some background information of the movement events that you choose to study(b) Data: Describe how you found your news articles, what your sources were, and how many articles you are using for the study.(c) Analysis: Present the trends and patterns you found. Discuss how these patterns answer your question. Include a few representative quotes. (d) Conclusion: Provide a brief summary and reflections. (e) Bibliography: List all the sources (including news articles).