This piece of writing is designed to replicate a writing style that you may be required to produce in your professional practice. This might be a policy briefing, a political editorial, or an analytical report. You can select the writing style that best suits your interests and career goals. You should formulate your writing consistently to replicate the style of writing that you have chosen. For example, a policy briefing would include key policy recommendations, supported by a justification and an implementation plan. An analytical report would begin with an executive summary and then report on the state of a given issue, supported by empirical data analysis.
You should select from the following broad topic areas, but remember when you are writing you can limit yourself to a more precise, specified question related to the topic area.
1. Achieving peace in the Middle East
2. Dealing with the UK asylum backlog
3. The effects of political polarisation in the USA
4. Addressing the gender pay gap and gender equality
5. Reducing poverty without increasing inequality
6. Reducing global climate change successfully
7. The global impact of social media on politics
8. Global health crises and how to plan for them
9. A topic of your choice, with lecturer’s approval
Your stylistic essay should be 1500 words.
Specified AI use is permitted for this assessment. You may use AI to support your learning, to check for grammar and syntax, and to assist you in generated an outline or template for the formulaic writing styles (briefing and report). You may not use AI to generate your argument, or replace your own critical analysis of the issue, or to generate written content.
The additional 300 words required asks you to append a reflective piece of writing to your stylistic essay. In this reflective writing you should consider a) how this assessment was different from an academic essay; b) what you found useful about the assessment and your learning process; c) what you found difficult about the assessment; and d) how you think your chosen writing style connects with or prepares you for your planned career path.
You may write 10% above or below the word limit
The document should be submitted as a single file including the stylistic writing, the reflection, and the completed AI disclosure form, which should be pasted into your assessment.