GEOG 620

Journal Assignment

Due January 28, 4 pm

The purpose of this assignment is to familiarize you with the scope and content of basic geographical journals in English.  Each of you should spend a few hours in the library familiarizing yourself with the following general geographical journals:  Annals of the Association of American Geographers, The Professional Geographer, Physical Geography, Geographical Review, Progress in Human Geography, Progress in Physical Geography, and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.  Come to class prepared to discuss the scope, content, and style of these journals.  In addition, each of you will be assigned one of the subfields of geography listed on the reverse page (or at the end of this assignment is you are looking at it on-line).  Your job is to prepare a short written review of three or four journals that are likely to be of use to individuals doing research in that subfield.  You need not limit yourself to geographical journals, but the geographical journal listed after the subfield should be among the three or four you choose to review.  Each journal review should be no more than one paragraph and should explain the nature of the journal, the audience it is trying to reach, the types of articles found in the journal (applied, theoretical, statistical, descriptive, etc.), and the types of materials included in the journal (book reviews, commentaries, software reviews, etc.).  Please bring six copies of your journal reviews to pass around in class.