Ensure that your name and student number appear in a header on every page, using 12pt font and 1.5 spacing. While you may collaborate in gathering evidence for your essay, you should formulate your thesis and write your essay individually. All the examinations are subject to the rules of plagiarism outlined in the syllabus. You are not expected to perform any new research for this examination. The maximum length for each exam is 1000 words.
Every successful exam will advance a specific structuring interpretation (a thesis statement) in an essay format. Take home-exams should employ rudimentary footnotes in order to attribute arguments to the sources, but you will not be assessed on the format of those notes. Students should prepare for this exam by consulting the “Thesis Exercises: A User’s Guide” PowerPoint published under the syllabus in Brightspace, which explains how to conceptualize (only) the first paragraph of this exam.
An “A” grade will deploy the following materials in support of an original thesis:
1/ Primary evidence in quotation from one or more of the following primary sources:
Week # 1Mandeville “Fable of the Bees”
Week #2Rousseau “First Discourse Part 1”
Week #3Ferguson “Essay on the History of Civil Society Part 1-4”
2/ Secondary evidence from the After Adam Smith by Murray Milgate and Shannon Stimson.
3/ Contextual evidence from lectures. You should resist – at all costs – the temptation to make your exam a retelling of a lecture: there are a few of these every year and they invariably fail.
Each of these components will be equally weighted. Please retain the question at the head of your exam submission. Use this document as a template, deleting all of the indented text above except the course information, but retaining the question below in 1.5 spacing.