A Workshop on Academic Writing
Join us for a workshop on writing a research paper with a focus on literature review. The following topics will be covered during the workshop:
- Strategies for moving from general topic to a good research question
- Outlining the components of a research paper
- How to write an effective analytical literature review
- Strategies for approaching short analytical paper assignments for which you are expected to make an argument drawing on assigned texts.
Speaker
Nancy Neiman
Professor of Politics
Scripps College
United States of America
Date: Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM IST
Venue: Room 100, University Centre, Central Campus, Ahmedabad University
About the Speaker
Nancy Neiman is a visiting Fulbright-Nehru Research Fellow studying the challenges facing pastoralists and especially pastoralists women in Gujarat during migration. She earned a Masters in Economics and a PhD in Political Science from Yale University. She has taught at Scripps College since 1993, where she has held positions in the Politics and Economics Departments and the Mary Wig Johnson Chair in Teaching. Professor Neiman’s previous work includes States, Banks, and Markets: Mexico’s Path to Financial Liberalization in Comparative Perspective (Westview, 2001). Her research covers a wide variety of topics, including neoliberalism, dollarisation, financial crises in Latin America, fair trade coffee in Africa, alternative education in the United States of America, and politics of the global food movement. Her most recent book, Markets, Community and Just Infrastructures (Routledge, 2020), represents a culmination of years of diverse and interdisciplinary teaching, research, and community engagement.
