Term-Paper: Research Article Summary Paper You are responsible for reading and understanding these instructions. If you turn in an assignment that does not follow these instructions, your grade will reflect it.
Deadlines: 1. Article Selection: Saturday, September 14. 2. Rough Draft (Optional): Saturday, November 2. 3. Final Project: Saturday, November 23.
No late work accepted after Saturday, December 7.
The purpose of this assignment is to have you explore the type of scholarly research being done by geographers in Europe. The project will give you an understanding of the breadth and depth of research that geographers do, point out important issues in the region that are the subject of academic research, and give you insights on how geographers conduct research and present that research. This assignment requires you to focus on articles in peer-reviewed, scholarly journals rather than popular media. There are several things that distinguish scholarly articles from other types of writing. Firstly, these articles are peer-reviewed; meaning that they have been judged by up to four other scholars working on similar topics for their accuracy and merit before being published. Scholarly articles are also fully cited so that another researcher can prove the validity of the arguments by looking at the same sources. Thirdly, while popular media articles generally stand alone as a report on something, peer-reviewed scholarly articles represent ongoing conversations among scholars to advance our knowledge about the world in this case, the geography of Europe.
Technical Aspects: Your paper must conform to the following formatting 12-point font (Arial, Times New Roman, Garamond, or Book Antiqua), one-inch margins all around, double-spaced, numbered pages.
Any paper that does not follow the technical aspects will receive a 10-point deduction in the final grade for this assignment.
Article Selection: The first step in completing this assignment is finding an article. The article you use must comply with the overall assignment it must be a geography article, the research must be located in the European Region, it must be a full-length, research article (not book reviews, commentaries, op-eds, editorial, country reports, or special issue entries), and it must be from one of the peer reviewed geography journals listed below. The articles must also be published in the year 2001 or later. Only one person will be allowed to review an article, so it is a good idea to pick out a few that interests you.
How to submit your articles: send the Instructor a message with a list of three articles you have picked out in order of preference your list should consist of full citations for the articles selected (Including: author/s last name/s, first name/s, year of publication, title of article, journal where it was published, volume, number, page numbers). You should also attach the PDF files for the articles to your message; it is not acceptable to submit web links of the articles of choice.
If you fail to submit an appropriate article by the due date you will lose 10% of your final grade for this task, and I will assign an article to you I cant promise it will be interesting or easy to read. A list with the assigned articles will be posted on Week # 4 of the semester.
When submitting your three articles of choice, you must use the following format to cite them, and include them in the text of your message; otherwise you will lose points. Note that this is the same format that must appear in the Cover Page of your final work. The samples provided include examples of articles written by only one author, two authors, and articles written by three or more authors. As you will see, the only variations in these formats correspond to the citation of the author/s of the article.
Articles written by one author:
o Shubin, S. 2010. Cultural exclusion and rural poverty in Ireland and Russia. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, 35(4): 555-570.
Articles written by two authors:
o Clark, J. and A. Jones. 2012. After the collapse: Strategic selectivity, Icelandic state elites and the management of European Union accession. Political Geography, 31(2): 6472.
Articles written by three or more authors:
o Clark D.B., Doel, M.A. and F.X. Mcdonough. 1996. Holocaust topologies: Singularity, politics, space. Political Geography, 15(6-7): 457-489.
The articles you select MUST come from the following Geography Journals:
Journal Title Location Annals of the Association of American Geographers G3.A7 Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography G1.A67 *Area G7.A73 Cultural Geographies GE170.E376 Economic Geography HF1021.E4 Environment and Planning D: Society & Space H1.E58 Gender, Place and Culture G70.G4 Geographical Journal G7.R91 Political Geography JC319.P65 Social and Cultural Geography GF1.S6 The Professional Geographer G3.P7 * Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie (Journal of Economic and Social Geography) HC10.T55 *Transactions (Institute of British Geographers) G7.I6
*Note: These peer-review journals make emphasis in European issues.
Note that most of these peer-review journals are available online using the FIU Library system; you do not have to purchase them. Log in and click e-journals. Here you will have access to all electronic copies of the articles published in the selected journal. Once in the webpage of the journal you should conduct a search of a European location that may be of interest to you using the appropriate key word.
The Analysis Paper/Final Project: For the paper, you will need to follow the format given below in analyzing and summarizing the components of the research article about which you are writing. Remember that you are only using ONE article in the part of the project. In completing the following format, you will need to read each section
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of the article you are using very carefully, possibly more than once. Your paper should be at-least 6 pages in length (not including the Cover Page), you must follow the formatting procedure listed above, and you must submit your paper through the plagiarism detection website Turnitin on Canvas by the due date (instructions for submitting it through Turnitin will be provided). Note that plagiarism will not be tolerated. If this or any other course assignment is plagiarized, you will earn an automatic failure grade in the course.
Follow the format carefully. When you write your paper, divide it into clearly labeled sections using the headings below. In each section, be sure to address the questions fully. Any paper that does not include the required labels/titles will receive a 10-point deduction in the final grade for this assignment.
I. Cover Page: Title of the Article, Author(s) of the Article, Publication Date, Publication Source (Journal, Volume & Number), Your Name, GEA 3500, Fall 2018, Date Submitted.
II. Introduction How does the author introduce the article (for example, do they tell a story to situate the topic, or do they discuss other research, a media report, an event)? How does the introduction frame the coming discussion and argument?
III. Argument What argument(s) does the author make in the paper (for example, are they saying that some topic hasnt been studied (enough); or, are they saying that if we study some particular issue/case it will change (or reaffirm) how we think about some conception; or, are they saying that if we bring in a different conception it will change the way we think about a particular issue/case)?
IV. Structure of the Paper How does the author go about making the argument in the paper? What order do they present the information? How do they layout the article? What sections are in the article, and what points do they make in each one? How do the sections build up to the overall argument?
V. Literatures In what literatures (both theoretical and topical) does the author situate their work? What works do they cite, and how do they conceive what they are citing? Note: Not every paper will have a specific section dedicated to literature review they may be embedded in various sections of the paper.
VI. Methodology How did the author go about collecting that information (data) used to support their argument? Did they use interviews (who, with and how many), participant observation (where and how long), document analysis (historical documents, newspaper accounts, policy papers, etc.), or statistical data (gather by the author or some other entity) to name a few? How is the data presented: is it woven into the text of the article, or is it presented in some graphic form (maps, charts, graphs, photos)? How well does the data support the argument that the author is making?
VII. Conclusion How does the author summarize their argument(s) one last time? Do they hint at broader implications of their work beyond the focus of this article? Do they make a call for more research in a certain area?
VIII. Bibliography How many sources does the article cite and what types of sources are cited? How many of the sources are books? How many are research articles? How many are other types of documents (popular media reports newspaper or magazine articles, government documents, planning documents, etc.)? How many are internet sources? Does the author cite Wikipedia?
Important Notes: Do not plagiarize any part of this paper or you will receive a zero for this assignment.
Most of your paper should summarize the article in your own words. If you wish to use the wording of the articles author(s) you should always put quotations marks around it and give the page number where it can be found. No more than 10% of your paper should be quotations. If you quote too much, you will lose points.
Be sure to read the instructions carefully, and follow them diligently.
Late work will be accepted but will receive a 10-point deduction. No late work will be accepted after two weeks of the due date.
* Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie (Journal of
Economic and Social Geography) HC10.T55
*Transactions (Institute of British Geographers) G7.I6
*Note: These peer-review journals make emphasis in European issues.
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