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Research Guides

GGRB03: Writing Geography

This guide will help students in GGRB03 with finding scholarly and popular sources for your essay assignment on writing a personal story about a place you lived or visited.

Research Process

Remember the research process is not linear. You will inevitable move back and forth between focusing your topic, research, and writing before completing your assignment.   

Watch the Focus Your Research Topic to discover how to do background research and use it to brainstorm a topic, and utilize the 5Ws framework to consider the various aspects of your topic that you can then focus your research on.  

Narrowing a Topic

This short video demonstrates to students how to develop an appropriate topic for a research paper by considering goals, approaches, topic scope and helpful resources.

(Georgian College Library, 2016)

What, Who, Where, When and Why/How of Your Topic

What

Social media

Advertising

Donations

Interpersonal relationships

Who 

Health care practitioners, charity

Men, student/teen, women, Aboriginal people, children

Where

Canada, Ontario

When Last 5 years
Why/How

How can health practitioners use social media to promote health?

Why are some types of social media advertising more effective for increasing donations to a charity?

Why do teens prefer one social media platform more than another - what factors influence this?

How does frequent use of social media impact interpersonal relationships?