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USP 186 Assignments (Click here for a six month work flow timeline)

This is a fast-moving course with a lot of requirements. Please meet all deadlines; it is crucial to your success and to our ability to keep up with all the grading. All assignments must be turned in at the beginning of class. Each assignment has a set of instructions and guidelines, including format requirements (for details, click on the assignments in the box below). All four written assignments should be turned in at the beginning of class on the scheduled due date. All internship forms go to Valorie Bruce in SSB 315.

*We expect you to comply with all the obligations and due dates (pdf file) established by Valorie Bruce. If you do not file your contract and/or progress report on time, you will loose points. Up to 5 points can be deducted from your overall course score.
Assignments % of Grade Due Dates
1. Research Profile + Student Interview 5 Sept. 28
2. Abstract with feedback from three experts 10 Oct. 12
3. Proposal (first draft) 30 Oct. 26
4. Proposal (final copy) 40 Nov. 28
5. Timeline of data collection and milestones 5 Dec. 7
* Section Participation 10
*Internship Requirements
1. Application due 9/21 in class
2. Résumé due starting 9/22 (and as soon as possible after that)
3. Contract due 11/2
4. USP Internship STUDENT’S Progress Report due 11/30
5. USP Internship STUDENT’S Final Evaluation due after completed 100 hours
TOTAL 100  

KEEPING A JOURNAL (Optional, for possible extra credit)

Although we do not require that you keep a research journal, we strongly recommend it. At the end of USP 186 and again at the end of USP 187 you will have the option to give us your journal. If it is done well, we can allocate up to three points of extra credit. Ocassionally we will suggest optional exercizes you may want to include in your journal. Two such optional tasks are noted shown below:

Writing an annotated bibliograhpy (click here)

Writing a literature review for your proposal (click here)

FORMAT REQUIREMENTS

All written assignments (style, spelling, usage, references and footnotes) must conform to requirements set forth in the Chicago Manual of Style, fifteenth edition (University of Chicago Press 2003).

The Journal of Planning Education and Research (JPER) requires authors to use the Chicage Style (author-date system). JPER is one of the most respected and authorative journals in the field of urban and regional planning. We are following their lead.

A section of the instructions that JPER editors give to authors is copied below: (To see many more examples, click here).

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Citations and Notes: References should be cited in the text using the author's last name, year of publication, and page numbers where appropriate. For example: (Chapin and Kaiser 1979), (Reade 1985, 81), (Florida Department of Environmental Regulation 1987, 129-143). Page numbers are necessary whenever a specific argument or finding, rather than the general focus of a work, is cited. All works cited should be listed alphabetically by author's last name in a double-spaced list at the end of the manuscript. For details, see the Chicago Manual. Examples are given below.

Florida Department of Environmental Regulation. 1987. Agency Functional Plan. Tallahassee, Fla.

Harris, Britton. 1986. Quantitative models of urban development: Their role in metropolitan policy-making. In Issues in Urban Economics, eds. Harvey S. Perloff Jr. and Lowdon Wingo, 121-133. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins Press.

Harris, Britton, and Michael Batty. 1993. Locational models, geographical information, and planning support systems. Journal of Planning Education and Research 12(3):184-198.

Innes, Judith E. 1990. Knowledge and Public Policy: The Search for Meaningful Indicators. 2nd edition. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers.

Statutes, government regulations, and court decisions should be cited in the text without a corresponding reference list entry using the style presented in A Uniform System of Citation, fourteenth edition (Harvard Law Review Association 1986). For example: (5 U.S.C. § 706 (2)(A)), (3 C.F.R. § 123), (548 F.2d 96(3d Cir. 1977)).
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Urban Studies & Planning 186/187