Geography 501: Research Design

Instructor: David M. Mark

Email: dmark@geog.buffalo.edu

Facts About the Course

SPRING 2005 INFORMATION: GEO 501 (Registration Number 360185)

TIMETABLE: Geography 501 meets once a week (Fridays), 12:00-12:50 pm.

CREDIT HOURS: Geography 501 is a 1-credit course.

GRADING:

· Weeks 2-10: Send a 200-word summary and comment on the reading to dmark@geog.buffalo.edu by 5pm Thursday (14 % of grade)

· Attendance (6 % of grade)

· Written research proposal due March 31 (50 % of grade)

· 10-minute Presentation of the proposal (30 % of grade)

· (Presentation Schedule, to be linked in April)

TEXTBOOKS:

· Required: "Research Design" by Creswell

· Recommended: "Elements of Style" by Strunk

Course Outline, Spring 2005

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• January 20: week 1. Course Introduction
• January 27: week 2. Designing Research Projects
• Reading: Creswell, Chapter 1
• February 3: week 3. Finding Previous Work- Citations Index and other sources
• Reading: Creswell, Chapter 2
• Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index,Arts & Humanities Citation Index
• CiteSeer (citations in computing and information sciences)
• Google Scholar
• February 10: week 4. Research ethics—plagiarism, using sources; human subjects
• Reading: Creswell, Chapter 3
• Article on Academic Plagiarism
• February 17: week 5
• Reading: Creswell, Chapter 4
• (February 24: Mark Diamond Research Fund deadline)
• February 24: week 6
• Reading: Creswell, Chapter 5 & 6
• March 3: week 7
• Reading: Creswell, Chapter 7
• March 10: Class cancelled but weekly reading summary still due March 9 (Association of American Geographers Meeting in Chicago)
• Reading: Creswell, Chapter 8
• March 17: UB Spring Recess: Classes cancelled
• March 24: week 8
• Reading: Creswell, Chapter 9
• March 31: week 9
• Reading: Creswell, Chapter 10
• Written research proposal due!
• April 7: week 10
• Reading: Creswell, Chapter 11
• April 14: Student presentations of proposals (non-presenting students required to attend)
• April 21: (David Mark in Oklahoma, class cancelled)
• April 28: Student presentations of proposals (non-presenting students required to attend)

• Additional sessions for student presentations of proposals; non-presenting students are strongly encouraged to attend
• May 5, 12-3: Student presentations of proposals
• May 25: Mark Diamond Research Fund deadline

Course Resources:

· Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index,Arts & Humanities Citation Index

· CiteSeer (citations in computing and information sciences

· Google Scholar

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Last updated on April 14 2006

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