Essays
An essay is a specific piece of academic writing that must conform to the standards of its discipline. Specific guidance and advice will be given during designated seminars but all essays should have full references and a full bibliography and your research should include a wide range of sources including Journal articles, books and some media reportage. Internet sites alone will not be considered sufficient evidence of effective research. The word limit is 2250 words and it is unlikely that any question set can be successfully addressed in fewer. However, while some leeway will be given in the case of excellent work, part of the discipline of essay writing is to structure and refine your research according to the word limit.
Essays fulfil many functions but they are principally designed to demonstrate your understanding of the subject matter and your ability to manage researched information while organising your research material in such a way as to address a specific issue or question. Essays should be presented as continuous prose without subheadings or subsections and should follow a clearly defined argument that addresses the question selected. Evidence of research is essential as well as evidence of the transferable skills of coherent writing, including accurate spelling, grammar and punctuation, intellectual analysis and effective communication. The list of essay titles below aims to provide the opportunity to demonstrate these skills so that you can play to both your interests and your strengths.
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Essay Title
Should we study violence in International Relations and why?
IMPORTEANT:
1- Please avoid plagiarism
2- Use journal articles and books
3- Please make the argument clear
4- Please follow these criteria
1-Answer the question precise
2-Proof and acknowledge
3-Begin to proof
4-Don’t use the third person
5-Opening paragraph and zoom it
6-Don’t tell a story
7-Each paragraph answering the question
8-Thesis statement is very important
9-Proof the thesis and answer the question
Marking guidelines for the coursework are detailed below.
Good understanding with few errors. Some irrelevant material may be present. Well organised and clearly written/presented. Some reading/research beyond that recommended in evidence.
Constructing a bibliography
At the end of your analytical case study coursework you should list a full bibliography. This is a list of all of the books and articles that you have consulted while preparing your essay, ordered alphabetically by author surname. Though you may not have actually cited a particular text in a reference, it should nonetheless be included as having been consulted since this reflects the process by which you have approached the subject at hand. Heavy reliance upon a very limited number of sources does not constitute plagiarism but may be considered very poor scholarship and marked accordingly. Going to the other extreme of having many references in your bibliography when you footnote only a few of them might suggest that not all of the texts have been consulted in adequate depth.
Each reference should be laid out as follows. A different style is adopted depending on whether it is a book an article from a journal, or a chapter in an edited book. Titles of books and journals are to be underlined or italicised, whereas the titles of articles and chapters to be places within ‘inverted commas’.
For example:
Books
Author, A. Title of Book (Place of Publication; Publisher; Date of Publication)
Irvine, A. Japan and the Wider World (London: Longman, 1977)
Articles
Author, A. ‘Title of Article’ Title of Journal, Volume Number, Issue Number, Date, Page Numbers
Wallace, W. & S. Brown ‘Foreign Policy and National Identity in the United Kingdom’, International Affairs Vol.67, No.1, 1991, pp65-80
Chapters in Edited Books
Author A. ‘Title of Chapter’ in A. Editor (ed), Title of Edited Volume (Place: Publisher, Date), page numbers
Dunn, D. ‘Peace Research Versus Strategic Studies’ in K. Booth (ed) New Thinking About Strategic Studies and International Security (New York: Harper Collins, 1991), pp.56-72.
If you adopt the Harvard system of referencing (see below), you should shift the date of publication to a position immediately after the author’s name.
Dunn, D. 1991: ‘Peace Research Versus Strategic Studies’, in K. Booth (ed) New Thinking About Strategic Studies and International Security (New York: Harper Collins), pp. 56-72.
Referencing Sources
When citing another author’s argument or quoting directly from another source, you must cite the text in question to avoid charges of plagiarism and to display the extent of your scholarship. If your coursework is improperly referenced, you tutor will deduct marks. S/he may even refuse to mark your work unless and until the shortcomings have been rectified.
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