SOCY22/ASCL70.30 The Business of Development in Asia

You’ve reached Prof. Smriti Upadhyay’s course guide for SOCY22/ASCL70.30 The Business of Development in Asia. This guide was created specifically to support your Country Project throughout the term. Here’s the brief introduction to the pages in this guide.

Page 1. Developing Topics

This page gathers resources to help you explore topics worth highlighting in your choice of country’s factsheet. You can use the resources on this page, such as reputable and reliable encyclopedias and handbooks, for preliminary investigation to develop topics and sketch a framework for your factsheet.

Page 2. Conducting Research

This page gathers resources to help you get into the deeper research phase. Wondering whether there are critical scholarly articles on the topic you’ve developed? Want fact-checked and vibrant local information from the news? Looking for reliable statistical datasets? Work with bibliographies, periodicals, and organizational websites to conduct your research.

Think Big & Go Beyond!

This guide is to serve as a starting point for your project. The use of the listed resources on each page - 1) Developing Topics and 2) Conducting Research - is NOT limited only to the suggested steps. You can make the use interchangeable. For example, you might find articles via newspaper databases in order to identify a topic to feature. As this guide offers basics, think big and make active use of the library. Explore beyond what’s listed here using other library research guides and the library website.

If you have questions or need help, contact your librarian, Yeajin Min (Yeajin.Park.Min@dartmouth.edu). Cheers!