Highlights
For the second assessment, your task is to produce a 4000 word essay in response to one of the questions listed below.
Your essay should aim to selectively draw on literature presented across the module as a whole (and possibly beyond), although you should also be mindful of any directions written into some questions about the need to engage with the work of specific authors.
You should aim to take both a critical and research-based approach to the task. This means that you should work to test and evaluate the ideas and literatures that you are engaging with 1) in reference to other ideas, literatures, theories that they may compliment or undermine and/or 2) through the application of ideas to examples drawn from published research or your own experience.
Writing in philosophy as a discipline can sometimes feel like a challenge. I’ve set out a structure below; you shouldn’t feel that you must* follow this plan, or that you are confined to this structure, but should instead think about the skills that are demonstrated through a structure like this, and how they might be useful in your own analysis (which may take a different form). The length of each section will depend on the shape of your specific essay (this is only a guide!).
Introduction:
Engagement with key terms set out in the question / an indication of the wider context within which your project sits/ the relevance of your project within this context / a brief consideration of the importance of the issues raised by the question / an articulation of any associated contemporary problems or issues that are raised by the question or literature / a thesis statement / a skeleton-plan of essay, indicating what and how your essay will develop.
Exposition:
1) Theoretical Framework: Detailed engagement with a theorist or set of theorists, a body of literature, or key ideas that relate to your question.
2) Testing and Evaluating Ideas:
a) Critically evaluating and testing your theoretical framework by bringing it into dialogue with the work of other authors and their ideas.This may involve highlighting similarities/parallels that support the positions set out in your theoretical framework, or it may instead involve working to show the ways in which and author(s) provide contrasting/contradictory ideas.
b) Testing and evaluating the ideas and positions set out in your theoretical framework through an application of these ideas to ‘real world’ examples that you might draw from published research, your own experience, examples from literature/film, and/or hypothetical examples (eg. thought experiments).
Recommendations:
Consider the implications of your analysis. What impact/ways forward might your analysis suggest for educational practice, social science research, social and political organisation, institutional organisation, and/or ethics and ethical living.
Conclusion:
In this section, you should draw together the different strands of your analysis, commentary and observations, and return to your thesis statement, commenting on how the work you’ve done in your essay supports your thesis statement.
Additional definitions…
Context: This will be partially set out in the framing of the question that you choose, however, in addition to this an early portion of your essay should engage with/respond to the wording of the central issue identified, before then moving to provide some context for the way that you will analyse this issue. Why is this issue an important one to think about today? Who might your analysis be relevant to? In what fields/institutions might your analysis make for an important contribution? What practices might be questioned as a result of your analysis? Identifying a problem or issue that arises from your chosen question might help you to 1) form a thesis statement, 2) think about the contemporary relevance of your essay, and will 3) shape the recommendations that you think towards.
Thesis Statement: a thesis statement is related to the context section (and may be incorporated within it), and involves you stating clearly what your conclusions will be, as well as presenting the skeleton of your argument. It might be seen as a mini-abstract of your work as a whole. It should appear at the opening of your essay, but may actually be one of the last things that you draft!
Theoretical Framework: you should have some space in your essay in which you engage, in detail, with a theory and/or set of theories, working with authors to clearly defi ne, and provide a close account of key terminology and/or of the central ideas within key literatures and/or the central position that an author or set of authors occupy. This might involve revisiting some of the ideas/defi nitions that you briefl y outlined in your introduction, this time working in much greater detail.
What are the central ideas within this literature? How might you summarise these ideas, selectively drawing on quotations to do this? How might different texts by the same and/or different authors be synthesised together in order to provide a manageable snapshot. What aspects of the theories do you want to emphasise because they are relevant to your analysis, and which do you want to, instead, only refer to?
Your reader should be given a comprehensive and richly resourced account of the ideas/theories that you 1) are interested in, 2) find problematic, 3) wish to explore, and/or 4) wish to use to help you explore some wider issue.
It *may* be the case that this section provides you with criteria that you can later use to analyse and explore a concrete example drawn from published research or your own experience.
The important skill to demonstrate here is that you can engage with, and articulate, complex ideas with precision and detail, and provide your reader with the theoretical material to understand the observations, commentaries, analyses that will take place late in your essay.
Application to Examples: You may wish to provide a detailed account of a problem/issue that you wish to analyse, and which is central to your essay. This may involve setting up a thought experiment, or instead referring to data and evidence from published research, or even an example(s) taken from a fi lm or published literature. The important work to be done here, is that to make sure that your example is explained or analysed in the light of the ideas provided in your theoretical framework. This framework might fi t neatly onto your example, or it might instead require supplementation with additional ideas/literature to fully grasp the example that you are working through.
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