Week 11 - Essay writing
- Individual consultations with tutors (prior arrangement required)
Instructions for the essay
A general advice
Once you choose a topic, please read the
description of the topic carefully. Then, try to find out your personal
interpretation of the topic. What’s going to be your major point? What would
you like to deal with the most? Can you find enough information, data, and
evidence to draw a clear and relevant picture and to support your opinion? Try
to make a general outline of the essay. Do not forget to consult with your
supervisors, we’re here to assist you.
Essay’s Purpose
Submitting the essay, you display an ability to
conduct independently a clear, relevant, evidence-based assessment of a selected
area or issue of public policy. You are supposed to use the theoretical background
provided to you at lectures and seminars.
Structure
The general structure of the paper is:
- Introduction
- what is the aim of the paper and what research question you want to
answer
- Review
of current knowledge status - previous research, short theory review,
review of possible research methods used for similar examples.
- An
explanation of a methodology you use. Sources of data (if it’s relevant).
- Analysis,
research, and discussion. Apply your knowledge on the selected problem.
- Short
summary - what did you find out, and what is your opinion about that.
- References
Formal aspects of the paper
Please be careful about the correct quotation. Choose
any norm, but strictly distinguish among your opinion, your summary of others'
opinion, direct quotation of someone else work.
Style - format your text carefully, think about the
comfort of your reader. Tables, figures, pictures illustrating the text are
welcome when they are essential. You can present extensive evidence in Annex.
Evaluation
You can obtain up to 30 points for the essay. It is
an essay’s relevance, its logic, creativity, complexness of argumentation,
formal requirements compliance what is assessed.
You are supposed to provide an oral presentation of
your essay and to defend the findings at the end of the semester. You can
obtain up to 20 points here.
Delivery
& Deadline
Upload the file with your presentation (PowerPoint
or pdf) into the IS/homework_vaults/presentation. Time for the presentation 10 min.
Deadline: 19.5. 2021 (Wednesday). The presentation is scheduled for Friday, 21.5.
from 9 a.m.
Upload the final paper (word or pdf) into
IS/homework vaults/paper. The expected length of the paper is about 15 pages.
Deadline: 30.05.2021 (so you can use a feedback from the presentation)