Goegraphy San Gabriel Valley Essay

San Gabriel Valley

Could you do two kinds of work?<br />

(1, research plan: 3~4pages total)   (2, final paper: 2500~3000 words) <br />

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I will provide prompt for both of works later once my order is assgined to you.

Paper: research plan 10%— hard copy due in class week 4

Final: 29% — hard copy due in class week 6

The research paper will be on a topic of your own choosing; it must relate

To food and the environment— while broad latitude of topics will be considered, the paper should fit the political ecology, political economy, development studies, or environmental studies perspectives of our course. Please do not submit topics that fall entirely outside these parameters: e.g. “a history of Chinese restaurants in the San Gabriel Valley” or “Kogi tacos: LA’s cross-cultural tastes;” both are interesting cultural phenomena, but not appropriate to this course. The project should be your own—something you are interested in( or something we have learned a little about in the course but you want to go further in exploring) and are driven to learn more about. For completing the paper, you will draw your research from existing, academic sources—books and journals.

Due, Tuesday, August 28th, you are required to submit a research plan.

This submission will be about 3~4pages total, comprised of five components:

1. a paragraph that describes as specifically as possible what you intend to study: embedded within this first paragraph you must include a thesis question or statement of what you are actually going to research;
2. a second paragraph that describes why you believe the topic is important or relevant;and
3. the remainder of the paper will describe your plan of how you will go about answering your thesis using a variety of sources;
4. a list of about 10 sources you may use for your research( these sources must be academic—books and journal articles—websites are not acceptable sources per se; the list should be in a bibliographic format according to an accepted style guideline

(Chicago, MLA, APA, etc);

5. a list of about 3 to 5 keywords that encapsulate your topic.

The grading of the research plan will be based on completeness of the above criteria.

Due Thursday, September 13th.  The final paper will be submitted in class. The finished paper should be about 2500~3000 words, including notes, citations, and an abstract.