Essay Planning Exercise

UUU202: Contemporary Fiji ESSAY PLANNING EXERCISE 1. Focusing your essay planning exercise In completing this exercise, you focus on finding information relevant to your essay and you start outlining your argument. Essay questions are handed in as well. You can approach the lecturer at any time during this exercise. 2. When should you start this exercise? This essay planning exercise is designed for you to start after 21st August. By that stage, you will have heard a range of views and topics relating to contemporary issues in Fiji. So you will be able to spend a few weeks practicing these skills and be ready to submit the exercise by week 7. I will hand the exercise back to you in week 9. Remember, after you hand this plan in, you will continue with your essay research and writing. DO NOT HALT PRODUCTION WHILE YOU WAIT FOR YOUR PLAN TO BE RETURNED. Your essay will be submitted at the end of week 12. I hope that you will have explored more than two books, two articles and two website by the time you submit this exercise, however, choose two of each as examples of your progress.

This template has been designed by Priya Chattier for UUU202- Contemporary Fiji (semester 2, 2006).

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THE ESSAY PLANNING ASSIGNMENT Complete the following tasks and submit them to your tutor at your tutorial class in week 9. NAME: STUDENT NUMBER: TUTORIAL TIME: YOUR ESSAY TOPIC:

BOOKS: Locate two relevant books or book chapters from an edited collection. List your sources using Harvard (author/date) referencing system. Make sure you use this bibliographic style in your essay. Two books or book chapters published relevant to my topic are: 1. 2. In a few sentences, critically assess the value of these sources for your essay: 1.

This template has been designed by Priya Chattier for UUU202- Contemporary Fiji (semester 2, 2006).

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Briefly describe your search strategy for finding these books.

REFEREED SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ARTICLES: List your sources using the Harvard (author/date) referencing conventions. Make sure you use this bibliographic style in your essay. Two refereed scholarly journal article I located on my topic are: 1. 2.

In a few sentences, critically assess the value of these articles for your essay: 1.

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This template has been designed by Priya Chattier for UUU202- Contemporary Fiji (semester 2, 2006).

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Briefly describe your search strategy for finding these articles:

AUTHORITATIVE ITEMS PUBLISHED ON THE INTERNET: List your sources using the Harvard (author/date) referencing conventions. Make sure you use this bibliographic style in your essay. Two authoritative sources available on the Internet are: 1. 2.

In a few sentences, critically assess the value of these sites for your essay: 1.

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What makes you confident that these sites are authorative?

This template has been designed by Priya Chattier for UUU202- Contemporary Fiji (semester 2, 2006).

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ESSAY PLAN: Remember: you may well change your argument after more consideration or further reading. This is only a draft plan that describes your current thoughts. You will not be held accountable to this plan although you can discuss any changes to your ideas with your lecturer/tutor. ARGUMENT: Complete the following sentence: This essay will argue that…

OUTLINE: In half-a-page to one page provide a structure for your essay. By this I mean the points of your argument in each paragraph. It is difficult to know when to end one paragraph and begin another but keep in mind that each paragraph is a component of your overall argument. You should decide the order of your paragraphs demonstrating the flow of your argument.

This template has been designed by Priya Chattier for UUU202- Contemporary Fiji (semester 2, 2006).

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This template has been designed by Priya Chattier for UUU202- Contemporary Fiji (semester 2, 2006).

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