Essay
Question Description
You need to develop a 1500-word (max) essay for ONE of the topics listed below in the ESSAY QUESTIONS section.
Instructions
The Structure of the Essay
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Cover Page
- The work should be having a clear title
- Name of student and Student ID
- Date of submission
- Name of the lecturer, course
- Table of contents
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Introduction
- Present the background of your topic. Why it is relevant and important to discuss it from an economics perspective?
- Clearly state the objectives of your work so the reader knows what to expect the critical discussion section
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Critical discussion
- You need to articulate your discussion around 3 to 4 objectives
- Each of these objectives must be discussed used a theory discussed in class
- Support your statement using facts and figures
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Conclusion
- Summarize your results
- Discuss the limitation of your approach
- Present an interesting question which should be discussed in the future
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Bibliography
- You need to use the Harvard referencing system
- Focus on reliable and scientific articles and sources to support your statements
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Appendix
- Any extra information supporting the analysis of the work, and which is too long to fit in the body of analysis, will be included here
Requirements
- The report should be a maximum of 1500 words (From Introduction to Conclusion). Extra words will be penalized.
- Students must consider the use of theories and models, the flow and progression of their critical analysis, overall clarity, structure and coherence of their answers.
- Students will be graded on their capacity to prioritize, synthetize, discuss and evaluate the topic based on different perspectives
- All statements made must be supported by facts, figures and references
- All sources of information must be referenced using the Harvard Referencing System
- The essay must be typed in the following document, which should be signed, dated and uploaded
Grading Criteria
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1. Knowledge (20%)
You should be able to forge links between theory and practice by contrasting models and thus arrive at relevant recommendations or proposals on applying innovative approaches to the problems examined.
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2. Criticality (25%)
You should be able to forge links between theory and practice by contrasting models and thus arrive at relevant recommendations or proposals on applying innovative approaches to the problems examined.
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2. Criticality (25%)
You should be able to forge links between theory and practice by contrasting models and thus arrive at relevant recommendations or proposals on applying innovative approaches to the problems examined.
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4. Evaluation (25%)
You must assess and support or dismiss the relevance of different models for the essay question.
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5. Communication (10%)
You must use the appropriate academic language grounded on a relevant choice of source materials.
Submission
The Essay must be uploaded on a the appropriate Turnitin folder created by the course tutor on Moodle before the deadline indicated on the Moodle page.
