Fannin, M. 2010. Professional citizenship and medical nationalism in France. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 28: 217-238.

Fannin, M. 2010. Professional citizenship and medical nationalism in France. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 28: 217-238.

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 Due Saturday, September 8:

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 can’t 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):

64–72.

• 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 Due Saturday, November 17:

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

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.

1. 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.

1. 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 hasn’t 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)?

1. 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?

1. 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.

1. 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 article’s 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.