You must write a 2000-word
essay based on one of the questions below. It must meet the following
requirements:
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It should fall within
10% of the target length (excluding bibliography), i.e., the text of the essay
should be between 1800 and 2200 words in length;
·
It should be written as
one continuous piece (no subheadings);
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You must research your
essay using academic sources (books and articles) and at least three quarters
of the sources on your bibliography should come from the Reading List for this
module;
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You must develop a
critical distance between the sources you read and your essay. If you want to
include a short passage in your essay, then quote it properly. But otherwise,
you must not follow the sentence or paragraph structure of a source text.
Paraphrasing requires you to demonstrate your understanding through your own
written account. (Altering the words or order of clauses in a sentence and
inserting it in your essay is still plagiarism.);
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Your in-text citations
should follow the Harvard style (surname year: page number) and must include
the precise page numbers in the source text for the ideas, arguments or quoted
passages which you include in your essay (do not give the page range of a
chapter, but the exact page or pages on which the information appears). The
markers will check a certain proportion of your citations against the texts
cited, to ensure accuracy and academic integrity;
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Only cite the texts you
have actually used. Do not insert references to texts which you have not read
and do not copy citations found in the sources you have read. If you wish to
quote a phrase by Jones which you find quoted in a book or article written by
Smith, your reference should take the following form: (Jones quoted in Smith
2022: 79);
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At this level, you
should consult at least 10 academic sources and there should be at least 15
in-text citations in your essay;
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While it is acceptable
to read Wikipedia entries, student essays on the e-IR website and to explore
the use of AI tools like ChatCPT in thinking through how to structure your
essay, text from such websites must not be reproduced in your essay, no matter
what modifications you may make to that text. Your essay must be written in
your own terms and any passages which you copy from academic sources should be
identified as quotations through the use of ‘inverted commas’ and accurate
citations to the sources (including page numbers).