In coming weeks doctoral applications in planning are due. Why apply?
Opinion
Jan 5, 2011 By Ann Forsyth
Planning students are often told to find good information. How to do that is becoming both simpler, due to various search engines and databases, and more complex, given the amount of information available. Opinion
May 31, 2010 By Ann Forsyth
For most planning programs in the U.S. this is the end of the semester. Having read literally hundreds of papers over the past few months I have reflected on the lessons of better papers for writing in planning. Opinion
May 25, 2010 By Ann Forsyth
For many students graduate school is the time to learn how
to write professional reports and memos. One of the skills many planning students
seem eager to master is writing the content-free document. This kind of writing
is a little tricky to do. Accordingly, in this last blog in my series on Opinion
May 26, 2009 By Ann Forsyth
Terrorized by the literature is the title of a chapter of Howard Becker’s excellent book, Writing for Social Scientists (1986, Chicago). Whether through terror or misunderstanding, the literature review is one of the areas that students in planning find most confusing. While I have dealt with the literature review briefly in my blog on writing proposals, the tips below provide more detailed advice on how to compose a literature review and how to find important literature in the age of information overload.
Opinion
Dec 20, 2008 By Ann Forsyth
What do planners do? Last month I highlighted the findingsof several surveys of planners aiming to identify core skills for theworkplace. They highlight the importance of skills in communication,information analysis and synthesis, political savvy, and basic workplacecompetencies and attitudes. Opinion
Oct 1, 2008 By Ann Forsyth
