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FC305 Essay’s Guidelines March Start cohort

Deadline: Monday 15th of June 2020 by 09.00am                    

First Draft Deadline: Monday 11th of May 2020 by 09.00am

1000 words (+/- 10% – i.e. 900-1100)

Read all instructions very carefully

1. Your assignment needs to be submitted via VLE Turnitin App on the date given above. Submit both versions in their respective Turnitin portals.

2. You should observe the word count stated on the assignment brief. A 10% margin is allowed above or below the limit.  You will lose marks if this is not followed.

3. Penalties apply for late submissions.

4. If you failed to submit on time due to an Exceptional Extenuating Circumstance (EEC), you should submit an EEC form within three days of the assessment deadline. These are available from Student Service and may, depending on your circumstances, affect your final mark.

Choose ONE of the UN Global Issues from the selection available on your VLE (and as instructed in a separate email) and discuss it critically.

Marking criteria 

Total Mark for each criterion

Content and Understanding 30%

• Relevance

• Appropriate detail

• Depth of knowledge (evidence of understanding of the topic)

• Evidence of research

Critical Thinking 20%

• Understanding of the debates relating to the topic

• Evidence of original thought

• Analysis

• Construction of a coherent argument

Structure 20%

• Logical and coherent structure

• Clear introduction and conclusion

• Overall presentation

Citation of authority and Bibliography 20%

• Accurate referencing

• Variety of sources (at least 5 academic references)

• In text References

Overall style 10%

• Overall style ranging from impressive to confusing, inaccurate, or poor

Academic Referencing 

A good place to start is with academic sources, also called scholarly sources. These sources can include books, academic journal articles, and published expert reports. Whatever the exact form, academic sources all have in common the fact that they are peer-reviewed. Peer reviewed sources are written by an expert in the field and have passed review by other experts who judged the source for quality and accuracy. If a source is peer-reviewed, you know it is a good choice for high-quality, accurate information about your topic.

Not all sources show whether they are scholarly relevant or peer-reviewed, but there are some clues you should check.

• Look at the author's credentials. They should have an advanced degree and/or an affiliation with a scholarly organization like a university or a science foundation.

• Look as well for a list of references or a bibliography. Most high-quality research is based on other research, so a good source will have a list of works the author studied as he or she was writing it. Check this list to make sure.

• Finally, you can tell a lot about a source by looking at the publisher who publishes it. Scholarly sources should be published by a professional association like the American Medical Association; by a university, for example the Oxford University Press; or by a recognized academic publisher. These publishers will all peer-review the books that they publish. Ask your teacher if you're not sure about whether a publisher is a recognized academic one. If the publisher is a university press or a professional organization, you've got a scholarly source!

1. Scholarly sources should be peer reviewed

2. They should include a list of references

3. They should be written by an expert author

4. They should be published by a reputable publisher

Wikipedia is not considered an academic source!

Academic Misconduct

Plagiarism includes (but is not limited to) the incorporation of material derived from the work (published or unpublished) of another author by unacknowledged quotation, paraphrase, imitation or other device in any work submitted in a way which suggests that it is the student's original work. Such work may include printed material in textbooks and journals and material accessible electronically, for example on web pages. Examples include (but are not limited to):

• The inclusion in a candidate's work of more than a single phrase from another person's work without the use of quotation marks and acknowledgement of the sources;

• The summarizing of another person's work by simply changing words or altering the order of presentation, without acknowledgements;

• Copying the work of another candidate, with or without that candidate's knowledge or agreement. If copied with the agreement of the other candidate both parties are guilty of misconduct.

Examples of collusion are (but are not limited to) a situation where a student:

Intentionally submits as entirely his or her own, work done in collaboration with, or commissioned from, another person or persons, whether for reward or not;

Knowingly collaborates with another candidate or candidates in the completion of work which is submitted as that/those other candidate's/candidates' own unaided work;

Permits another candidate to copy all or part of their own work, knowing it is to be submitted as that other candidate's own unaided work;

Proof-reading where this results in large sections of the students’ work being re-written by someone else.

In the cases of plagiarism and collusion, serious academic penalties (up to a deduction of 100% of the final mark awarded) are applied.

How to avoid plagiarism

When using sources in your papers, you can avoid plagiarism by knowing what must be documented

• If you use an author's specific word or words, you must place those words within quotation marks, and you must credit the source. (In-text citation + page) 

•  Even if you use your own words, if you obtained the information or ideas you are presenting from a source, you must document the source. (In-text citation) 

You do not need to cite a source for material considered common knowledge:

• General common knowledge is factual information considered to be in the public domain, such as birth and death dates of well-known figures, and generally accepted dates of military, political, literary, and other historical events. In general, factual information contained in multiple standard reference works can usually be considered to be in the public domain.

If in doubt, be cautious and cite the source. And in the case of general common knowledge, if you use the exact words of the reference source, you must use quotation marks and credit the source.