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Your essay should make use of relevant reading - using any of the papers in the Reader, or any other significant contributions to your chosen topic. A good technique is to explain the argumentation developed in your reading and then work out your own view by saying where and why you agree or disagree.
Your essay must of course be your own work. Give a detailed reference (in brackets or in a footnote or endnote) where you are reporting the argument of somebody else (or quoting of course). Give a list of the books and articles you have consulted at the end.
To go on the title page of your essay you are asked to construct a 'synopsis'. You should construct it by going through your draft a paragraph at a time and writing a single-sentence summary of each paragraph in turn.
Preparing a synopsis helps you refine your sense of structure, and gives you practice in helping your reader follow your presentation. If you prepare your synopsis in time to prepare a revised draft of the essay after you have made it, it will help you get the structure of the essay clear and simple.
Use subheadings in your essay if you feel this will help your reader follow what you have to say.
Length guideline: 2500 Words
Essays should be submitted by 4.30 Friday 11th March to the Centre for Professional Ethics Office, Vernon Building. Make sure you put a cover sheet on your essay (available from the board on the wall just inside the front entrance of CPE) and then put your essay in the appropriate box just inside the double doors that lead off the atrium (these doors are right in front of you as you look down the short corridor through which you enter CPE).
Your essay should:
Remember also to keep a copy of your work, including a back-up electronic copy if you word-process.
Marked essays will be left in the tray with the name of Dr Schroeder on it that is on the desk next to the boxes in which you hand your essay in. You will be advised when the essays will be/are available for collection.
Each participant takes responsibility for writing up one of the seminars. These reports should be submitted in electronic form (on a floppy, or e-mailed as an attachment), within a week of the relevant seminar, and will be posted on the web site.
They are not meant to be minutes of the discussion but attempts to construct a record that is useful when participants try and take their thinking further on each topic. Length guideline: 500- 100 words.
(Experimental - think blog?)
The person who has been responsible for a write-up is asked to make a short (couple of minutes) spoken presentation of it at the beginning of the subsequent session.
Revised 05:02:05
Prepared by VP