Activity 5.2
Identifying Parts of an Article Published in a Social Science Journal

Choose and make a copy of an article that reports the results of an empirical study of politics from a recent issue of one of the following journals: American Politics Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, Social Science Quarterly, Journal of Politics or Political Research Quarterly. Referring to the elements included in research reports that we have outlined in this chapter, identify the parts of the article by creating an outline of its contents.