11 Writing a seminar paper

As you reach the end of this book, you are finally familiar with the basics of Stata. You are able to open and save Stata files, transform and create variables, compute descriptive statistics and work on more advanced methods like multiple regressions. This gives you all the tools to write solid research papers. If you use this book as a companion for your first paper ever written with Stata, the following guide should give you a very concise overview of how a seminar paper can be structured. This basic outline will be valid for every field of study, but make sure that you get additional input from your fellow students, colleagues or advisors.

11.1 The basic structure

  1. Introduction: the beginning of your report should ...

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