You will have two weeks to complete the Reading -into-Writing coursework. You should spend one week on the Reading task and one week on the Writing task. You are preparing to write the following essay :
Individual economic relief is the mechanism which governments use to provide relief to the most needy and to ensure no one falls beneath a minimum standard of care. The development of the gig economy and the effects of the Covid pandemic have highlighted the need for such individual economic relief programmes. This need has prompted the call for countries to implement a universal basic income (UBI).
2. Complete the selective summary table. To do this you will need to:
a. Annotate each source text by highlighting information to help you write the essay.
Think about:
i. thematic links. You will need to identify relevant themes from the essay
prompt and the texts.
ii. points which relate to each other (synthesis).
b. Write between 50-150 words to summarise and paraphrase the ideas you would like
to discuss in your essay. You may write in note form, and you must do this in your
own words. Do this in the selective summary table. c. Make links across each text. For example:
i. which are making similar/different points ii. which are providing more/different details d. Add any other relevant links you notice between the texts.
3. Develop a plan for your essay, based on your summaries and links, which shows how you
have synthesised relevant information. Writing Write an essay on your chosen title of between 1000 and 1200 words .
When writing your essay:
Refer to the selective summary table and essay plan from the reading task above.
You must refer to all three texts to demonstrate your understanding of the texts and to show
how you are using this understanding in your essay. For example: • Identify key ideas, dates, actions, recommendations, implications, events, impacts,
and other information to support your argument . • Define or refine your use of key words and concepts. • Show links and/or common themes that are either implicit or explicit in all 3 texts . • Ensure you have an introduction, main body with paragraphs, a conclusion and a list
of references.