URBS 400: Senior Seminar: Overview

This guide is intended to assist students in URBS 400: Senior Seminar, with resources for conducting research on Urban Studies topics. Related guides include:

• Evaluating the quality of sources and determining which are scholarly articles or books appropriate for a senior seminar.
• Knowing there are enough citations for a paper's bibliography.
• Quoting or paraphrasing in a way that does not overstep boundaries of what is legitimate.
• Doing qualitative data analysis
• Formatting citations for the bibliography and managing references.
• Finding and using archival or photographic material about Philadelphia.
• Using or presenting spatial information, working with maps or geographic information systems.
• Knowing where to look on the library website for sources and references.
• Locating and working with data and statistics collected elsewhere.