Essay 2

1. This document should achieve the aims of a literature review, as we have discussed in class. Remember that this essay is not just a description of the current state of knowledge, but also an argument about why your research needs to be done to improve the existing state of knowledge in your field.

2. There should be a title to your review that succinctly captures your line of argument or the problem with the current state of knowledge in your field. 

3. You should have a clear, logical outline to your essay, including section headings.

4. You must now have at least ten (10) peer-reviewed references in your bibliography, and they must be cited correctly in the text. Your bibliography must be correct and consistent. 

5. Your literature review should conclude with a single empirically-answerable Research Question, expressed in the form of a question. That question should be in bold face type.  It is likely that at this stage your question will be rather broad.

6. Your review should also clearly show how the proposed research fits within the discipline of geography, either explaining that your “we” are geographers, or bringing a geographic perspective (cited) to bear on the literature. The first week’s lectures should aid you.

7. Your literature review should not exceed  7 pages, double-spaced with one-inch margins and a standard 12-point font.

8. Pages should be numbered so that your T.A.s can make comments.

9. Be sure you have responded to your T.A.'s comments and feedback from Assignment #1.

For this course the TAs, Instructor, and Librarian have agreed on Harvard Style references. This is a very common reference system in the Social Sciences (of which Geography is a part), and reference aides like Zotero and Endnote can easily use it.

For specific details see this very useful guide: http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/harvard.htm If you are in line citing more than one work, either alphabetize them or place them in chronological order.  Alphabetize the entries in your bibliography by author’s last name.  Use in-line citations within the text for the name of the author, the date of publication and, when directly quoting from the material, also the page number from which the quote is drawn e.g. Brown (2020: 23).  Use “et. al.” (e.g. Thompson et al. 2018) for the inline citation when there are more than four authors. Do not use “et. al.” in the bibliography; spell out each author's surname and initials. Two or more works by one author in the same year should be distinguished by using 1980a, 1980b (Yanson 2020a, 2020b).  In-line references to websites without authors should cite just the first few words from the source, e.g. (Using APA, 2008).  In the bibliography online sources (not journal articles) should include the full URL and the date you last accessed it.