SAASS Student Support AY24

Air University Library Course Support

DIRECTED THESIS RESEARCH

SAASS 690

AY 2023 -- 2024

Objectives:
     1. To promote student growth in the areas of research, argumentation, and written expression, thus producing more
          competent strategists for the Air Force and the Nation.
     2. To contribute to the body of knowledge about strategy writ large, with particular attention to its connection to air
          power, space power, and cyber power.

Some materials listed below require access to subscription databases.  If you cannot gain access, contact your local library for availability.  AU students and faculty can contact the Library's Database Request Page for a password.

Internet Resources

Listed below is on-line information about books and their authors used in this course.

• Mortimer Adler    Biography
  Charles Van Doren     
  How to Read a Book:  The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading    Review
   
• Air University Style and Author Guide
   
• Wayne Booth     Biography
  Gregory G. Colomb    In Memoriam
  Joseph M. Williams     Obituary
  The Craft of Research     Publisher Description     Interview with authors
   
• Claire Kehrwald Cook        Biography
  Line by Line:  How to Edit Your Own Writing      Publisher Description
   
• Alec Fisher    
  The Logic of Real Arguments    Review
   
• Alexander L. George     
  Andrew Bennett     Biography
  Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences     
   
• Gary King     Biography
  Robert O. Keohane      Biography
  Sidney Verba      Article
  Designing Social Inquiry:  Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research     Review
   
• Zachary Shore     Biography
  Grad School Essentials:  A Crash Course in Scholarly Skills      Publisher Description
   
• William Kelleher Storey     Biography
  Writing History:  A Guide for Students     Publisher Description
   
• William Strunk
  E.B. White     Biography
  The Elements of Style      
   
• Marc Trachtenberg    Biography
  The Craft of International History:  A Guide to Method     Review

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