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  2. List of academic databases and search engines - Wikipedia

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    Journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines (1870–present) Free & Subscription JSTOR: OpenEdition.org: Humanities, social science: 60,000 Offers four international-scale publication and information platforms in the humanities and social sciences (10,661 books, 549 journals, 3793 blogs, 45,591 events). Free

  3. Social media - Wikipedia

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    The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...

  4. Wikipedia:Identifying and using primary sources - Wikipedia

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    a book written 150 years later that analyzes the proclamation, an academic journal article written two years ago that examines the diary, and; an encyclopedia entry written last year, based on both the book and the journal. Both the proclamation and the diary are primary sources. These primary sources have advantages: they were written at the ...

  5. Designing Social Inquiry - Wikipedia

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    Designing Social Inquiry. Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research (or KKV) is an influential 1994 book written by Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba that lays out guidelines for conducting qualitative research. [1] The central thesis of the book is that qualitative and quantitative research share the same ...

  6. Academic journal - Wikipedia

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    An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. They serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and discussion of research. They nearly universally require peer review for research articles or other scrutiny from ...

  7. Social research - Wikipedia

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    Research. Social research is research conducted by social scientists following a systematic plan. Social research methodologies can be classified as quantitative and qualitative. [1] Quantitative designs approach social phenomena through quantifiable evidence, and often rely on statistical analyses of many cases (or across intentionally ...

  8. Ghostwriter - Wikipedia

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    Ghostwriter. The popular demand for Tom Clancy 's action novels exceeded his ability to write new books. As a result, his publisher hired ghostwriters to write novels in the Clancy style. A ghostwriter is a person hired to write literary or journalistic works, speeches, or other texts that are putatively credited to another person as the author.

  9. Academic writing - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Academic writing or scholarly writing refers primarily to nonfiction writing that is produced as part of academic work in accordance with the standards of a particular academic subject or discipline, including: reports on empirical fieldwork or research in facilities for the natural sciences or social sciences,