Due: Week 9 in tutorial
Content: Questions are related to lectures from class 6 to class 8.
Length: Double spaced, between 750 and 1000 words (including references)
Value: 12%
Late essays will be subject to a -2% penalty per day.
*[Students will be permitted to resubmit through Turnitin after correcting errors revealed by the similarity report, subject to late penalty.]
Planning Your Essay: Getting Started, Exploring and Pulling it Together
The essay writing process involves several stages: formulating a working thesis, organizing your notes and developing an essay plan. For help Getting Started see this SPARK module. Once you have picked an essay topic and identified the course readings you will use, look up the reading questions and wikiwords in the course outline.
Start Exploring by applying the SQ4R reading method to social scientific texts or the levels of reading analysis to the creative texts. This will help you produce the notes that will form the raw materials for your essay.
Now that you have your notes and your essay plan, start Pulling it Together. Review the assignment instructions and our expectations before you start the writing process. Producing a draft at least a few days before the due date will give you an opportunity to edit your work. The more effort you put into earlier stages of the essay writing process, the easier it will be to write.
Instructions
Pick one of the essay topics below. Make sure you discuss assignment expectations with your TA in tutorial. DO NOT simply answer the questions in the order that they appear in the topic. The order of presentation is something you need to think deeply about: you need to think about what it is that you want to say and the order that it would be best to say it in to show how well you understand the concepts, issues and arguments under consideration.
Papers should be double spaced, with 12 point font (such as Times New Roman, Arial or Cambria) and one inch margins. Use paragraph format and provide a title page and a bibliography. Each page of your essay (except the title page) must be numbered.
Formal Requirements
Your title page must include your name, student number, Tas name, courses name and number, section, and submission date. You will need to use at least two secondary ACADEMIC sources for this essay: secondary sources are sources referenced in the mandatory readings related to the class 6 to 9. Include a properly formatted bibliography at the end of your essay. Your essay must start with a comprehensive introduction which includes: i. The position the author takes on the key question; ii. Your thesis; and iii. An explanation of how your essay will be organized. Your essay must have a clear paragraph structure, each starting with a clear topic sentence.
Prior to starting this essay, students should complete the following two modules.
*You are required to complete the SPARK module on Academic Integrity
*You are required to complete the SPARK module on Selecting Sources
Essay Topics (choose 1 topic):
1. Explain the differences between the competitive sector and the monopolistic sector, in terms of market mechanisms and sales effort. What are the strategies used by monopoly capital to stimulate effective demand? Provide a definition of planned obsolescence and its social consequences.
2. Compare planned and market economies, minimally by using the notion of the social division of labour. Then, explain how our businesses are regulated in a capitalist society like ours, by providing explanations drawn both from the public interest perspective and the mainstream perspective on market regulation.
3. Provide a definition of the social reproduction theory and its contribution to Marxism. Explain how the relationship between production and social reproduction has evolved from the traditional family, the industrial period, the modern family and the postmodern family. Compare how women from different class backgrounds attempt to cope with the contradiction between capital and care under postmodern era.
Please note:
You must attach a completed Academic Integrity Checklist to the back of your essay. Treat this as a contract. By checking off each box, you acknowledge that you understand the principles of Academic Integrity. Make sure you print your name, sign and date the form. The assignment is not considered complete unless this document is attached. The standard late penalty of 2% a day applies until you submit it. The late penalty also applies if you fail to upload your essay to Turnitin. Plagiarized essays are subject to the standard departmental penalty of 0% on the assignment and no opportunity to re-write. Please consult the Senate Policy on Academic Honesty for more information.
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