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-# Project Proposal (10 points)
+# Final Paper (40 points)
 
-**Produce a research question and proposal for your term project using a computational social science research design**
+**Turn in a formal research paper that uses advanced computational methods to answer a research question by Wednesday, June 12 at 11:59pm. The body of the paper should be no more than 20 pages (1.5 spaced). You may place as much information as you like in an appendix or technical appendix.**
 
 
-## Elements of a project proposal
-
-1. Clearly state a research question
- * Maybe give a few citations (not a full literature review)
- * Give a little information about why it is interesting
- * Give a little information about what your contribution will be
-2. Describe how you will answer that question
- * What data will you use?
- * Maybe give a preliminary figure/plot/table
- * What theory will you use to interpret the data?
- * What analyses and computational tools will you use?
-3. What do you think your answer might be?
- * What are the potential channels and alternatives?
-
-
-## Proposal format
-
-1. You should prepare a [5 minute quasi-Ignite-style presentation](http:https://www.ignitetalks.io/) using slides
- * Exactly **10 slides, auto-advancing every 30 seconds**
- * Use any software you want to generate the slides **as long as you include a PDF version**
- * Here is a [LaTeX slides template](https://github.com/UC-MACSS/persp-research-econ_Spr19/blob/master/templates/LaTeXslides_template.tex) you can use if you wish.
-2. Push your slides to your project repository on your GitHub fork in the `Proposal` folder no later than 11:59pm, Tuesday, April 9.
-3. You will present your proposal with slides in class on Wednesday, April 10.
-
-
-## Things to watch out for
-
-* State your research question clearly
- * Usually a narrower scope is better
- * Title should refer to a question
-* Make sure to use a computationally-enhanced research design
- * This could involve computational elements for data collection or statistical learning methods
- * This could involve running a digital survey or experiment or simulation
- * What you should not prepare - a basic OLS/logistic regression model reevaluating a commonly used observational data set. Do something more computationally cutting edge.
-* **Make sure you can get the data**
-* If you have a title slide, know that we will spend 30 seconds there
-* Manage your time during the presentation
-* Don't spend too much time on the literature
-* Answer questions but don't get derailed
-
-
-## How to come up with a good project
-
-* What topic areas are you interested in?
- * Read the most current articles.
-* Extend one of those papers in a small way.
- * New data
- * New population
- * Question about different part of the data
- * New/better methods
-* Talk to faculty.
+## Grading rubric
+1. Did you use appropriate advanced computational methods (10 points)
+2. Clarity of research question and convincingness of answer. (10 points)
+3. Effective use of visualizations and tables. (10 points)
+ * Visualizations and tables should stand on their own.
+4. Overall paper organization (10 points)
+ * Did you follow the paper writing advice for each of your sections as given in the course lectures, notes, examples, and slides.
+ * Structure/flow
+ * Parsimony and efficiency of language

README.md

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 | May 29 | W | Effective presentations, poster, slides | [Notes](https://github.com/UC-MACSS/persp-research-econ_Spr19/blob/master/Assignments/poster.md) | |
 | Jun 3 | M | Markov and hidden Markov models | [Notebk](Notebooks/Markov/Markov.ipynb) | [PS 4](Assignments/PS4/PS4.pdf) |
 | Jun 5 | W | In-class poster presentations | | [Poster](https://github.com/UC-MACSS/persp-research-econ_Spr19/blob/master/Assignments/poster.md) |
-| Jun 12 | W | Final papers due at 11:59pm | | Papers due |
+| Jun 12 | W | Final papers due at 11:59pm | | [Papers due](https://github.com/UC-MACSS/persp-research-econ_Spr19/blob/master/Assignments/final-paper.md) |
 
 
 ## References and Readings