Instruction
Instructions:
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.