Devise, conduct and report on a small-scale observational study of proxemic behaviour in one of the following contexts: public benches, a library or buses.
Guidance
For general guidance about what is expected in your essays for this module, see the general criteria.
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What Key Features Do I Look For?
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Please remember to avoid footnotes and to include an alphabetical list of 'References' which have been cited in the text (not a Bibliography of anything you have read for the essay). This list should include author's names, date, book titles (in italics), place of publication and publisher. Within the text always cite author's surname, date and page number. Double-space your text and number your pages. For more detailed notes on writing essays in this department, click here.
Advice for this particular assignment: Remember that in Lecture 4 we referred to studies of proxemics and in particular to seating and standing behaviour at tables, in lifts and in urinals. Look back over the Powerpoint slides. Remember that purposes and relationships come into play. If you take photographs of identifiable individuals then you need to obtain permission from those whom you photograph. Refer to relevant studies in the existing literature on proxemics. To what extent are your own findings in accord with published academic research studies of this topic? If there are significant differences, how do you account for these?
Note also that this is an assignment for which the inclusion of relevant pictorial illustrations is essential. If you have not used photographs then you should use diagrams. These should be inserted electronically into your Word document rather than cut-and-pasted in. You can scan such illustrations in from print sources, save them from disk-based sources, download them from online sources (such as my Powerpoint slides) or even create them from scratch in a graphics package. Use them to help you to make points more effectively. Label each one, 'Figure 1' etc. and add a caption.
Some suggested reading
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