Coal in India

GUIDE TO RESEARCH PAPER for HUMAN GEOGRAPHY 001M

The research assignment in Human Geography included subjects from world industry
and problems of world economy. The guidelines include, but are not limited to the
purpose of the paper to be written; the student must show the ability of doing
independent research; only relevant material must be included; the statements made
must be accurate, as well as the presentation of data and analysis; the information must
be presented in a logical order; the work needs to be coherent and complete; the
references must be complete and accurate.
Papers should follow the traditional arrangement of introduction, body, and conclusion.
The introduction will announce your topic and the point you are trying to make. The
body of the paper will present your data and evidence for that point and elaborate the
argument; it may be divided into separate sections. The conclusion will sum up the paper
and once again remind the reader of the point you have made.
A final consideration is the use of references. Where have you found all of the
information you’ve used in writing your paper. References (or citations) are all of those
sources that are mentioned somewhere in your paper. A bibliography, on the other hand,
is a list of all sources consulted, even though you may not mention them in the text of
your paper.
Maps and illustrations are often useful in making a point in a paper, as are things like
tables and graphs if you have a lot of statistical data. The use of these will depend on the
topic of your paper. Be sure to give the source of any maps, tables, or graphs that you use.
Students in Human Geography often approach their writing assignment through five-
question formula: What? Where? When? Why? and How?
The project should be 6-8 pages. References need to contain minimum 3-5 sources about
your topic. The project should contain at least one map.
Students need to send their paper via CANVAS in Assignment section. The content of the
paper is checked by Turnitin for plagiarism review. Plagiarism is a serious problem that
is not very well understood by some students. Simply stated, plagiarism is the act of
passing someone else’s work off as your own or using someone’s research without proper
citation. Some of the Guidelines in writing the paper are:
• Think about the purpose and the context of the paper;
• State clearly what you plan to achieve;
• Include only important material;
• Make sure you are accurate in all your statements and in the analysis and presentation
of statistical data;
• Present your information in a logical order;
• Make sure that your paper is complete;
• Count on producing at least one or two drafts before producing the final copy.
• Make needed correction before submitting the paper.

A well written paper should draw from accepted academic sources. What are academic
sources? Primarily, these are books written by academics as well as professional journal
articles and websites. Geography, for example, has dozens of academic journals where
geographers publish their research (National Geographic; Professional Geographer;
Annals of the AAG; Journal of Transport Geography, The Economist etc.). The paper
should contain at least one map about course topic.

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