Senior Project Seminar

Seniors in geography may enroll in the Senior Project Seminar (Geog 3985W or Honors, 3985V) to facilitate completion of their research projects.

The requirements for the senior project are incorporated into the seminar structure. Students receive small group and individual instruction designed to sharpen research, analysis, and writing skills.

Activities and written assignments mirror stages in the thinking, research, and writing processes to provide a framework for planning and completing a polished research paper (15-25 pages).

The seminar is designed to help students learn to:

Select and refine a research topic
Identify relevant trends and traditions in geography
Avoid plagiarism, especially accidental plagiarism
Research more thoroughly and effectively
Understand and use academic literature
Summarize and evaluate sources
Synthesize secondary source information
Give proper attribution to sources in written work
Plan and execute empirical research
Conduct ethical research
Use proper source citation format
Carry out analysis
Organize ideas
Express ideas clearly in textual and graphical formats

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Last modified on February 7, 2012