Cities 07

Your polished draft should be between 3,000 and 4,000 words, not counting references. Please write the word count at the bottom ("Word count = xxxx"). It is quite a skill learning to write the right kind of paper for a specified word count, and one which most of you will have to use in future jobs.

Your polished drafts must include the following:
a) The topic and sites of your research
b) The focus of your research. (What you have been looking for – and therefore which aspects of the site you are going to investigate.)
c) Clear explanations of which theories you are exploring. (Remember to focus on using the writings of two or maybe three of our sources to frame your project, although you can definitely bring in the others in reference to specific points. With the most complex writings, such and Wirth or Castells, be clear about which parts of their arguments you are working with.)
d) Be clear about the methodological tools you are using to investigate your questions? (E.g. nonparticipant observation; archival research (newspapers), interviews, participant observation.)
e) What did the theories lead you to expect? (The different theories may well be contradictory.)
f) What have you found out , and what are the implications for the theories? (Do they seem correct, off the mark, need modification?)
g) A clear structure with a FOCUSED TITLE, a beginning, a set of well structures sections laying out your arguments in the middle, and a CONCLUSION summarizing your points and how they relate to each other. How you organize the body of the essay is up to you for now – you will get feedback on this aspect to help you do a good job. I do suggest that you integrate the theories you are working on with your findings throughout the paper rather than laying out a bunch of material and then going back to make theoretical points from it.

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