Blog

Introduction (150-300 words) • state why the topic is important • Briefly define

Introduction (150-300 words)
• state why the topic is important
• Briefly define key ideas
• outline the essay’s approach to the topic
• outline different views presented
Main body (650-900 words)
• key points supported by facts/evidence/examples
• cite relevant support sources
• present, synthesise & evaluate different viewpoints
The conclusion (200-300 words)
• summarise main points
• draw logical conclusion(s)
How will this assessment be marked?
You will receive a mark for each of these categories:
• Knowledge & Understanding (30%)
(The breadth and depth of the points you make)
• Analysis & Evaluation (30%)
(How well you analyse and evaluate all the issues you mention)
• Academic Integrity (20%)
(How correctly you use academic conventions, e.g. citations, references, quotations and paraphrase; whether data/facts presented are genuine and accurate)
• Academic Skills (20%)
(How well you communicate your ideas; the tone and accuracy of your language)
Your overall mark will be calculated as the weighted average of the four and will be reported as a percentage.

Related posts:

  1. Research Project Instructions: Sustainable Development: Research Paper: Each student should identify an area overburdened by pollution, applying EPA’s EJScreen: Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool (https://www.epa.gov/ejscreen), which combines environmental and socioeconomic information in the area. Then, she needs to write a paper between six and eight pages (including figures, tables, and references). See the required format below. EJSCREEN is an environmental justice mapping and screening tool that provides EPA with a nationally consistent dataset and approach for combining environmental and demographic i
  2. The Assignment: Choose one historical concept about the Dahomey women warriors addressed in Edna Bay’s “Women in Combat,” a review of Stanley B. Alpern’s text Amazons of Black Sparta: The Women Warriors of Dahomey. Then in a five-page critical analysis – using a Womanist, Afrofuturist framework – that discusse
  3. explain what you see as a key problem or problems with the role of the class action in modern civil litigation. In doing so, make sure you explain how class actions differ from ordinary civil litigation, and create additional challenges.
  4. complete two discussion forums during the course.  Each consists of an initial post of 400-500 words addressing an instructor-provided topic.  The forums also require responses to the posts of at least two classmates. Each response should be 150-300 words.