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Write a review essay of Review Essay of Tingle, L ?Great
Topic: Write a review essay of Review Essay of Tingle, L ‘Great
Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation’,
Quarterly Essay, Issues 46 2012.
Criteria:
Your review essay should summarise and evaluate the key
arguments presented in the essay.
demonstrated and applied comprehensive knowledge by:
explicitly and thoroughly describing salient features of the topic chosen for the summary
communicated by: adhering to English conventions to write a fluent
essay that ? was clear and concise, used an extensive and
discipline-specific vocabulary
acknowledging all sources by adhering to referencing protocols
using a prescribed convention (as in School guide)
Follow this instruction:
There are some important things to think about when preparing your critical review papers. The first is that you need to make your own argument the focus of your response to the article you are reviewing. I can’t stress this enough: a passive retelling of the major arguments made by an author will not score highly. The idea of this learning criterion is that it tests not just your understanding but also your ability to analyse (which is, after all, what Politics is all about).
A second point – as important as the first – is that you will need to demonstrate your claims with
evidence. This might be references to authoritative sources (ie the secondary literature in journals and books), but might also be factual in nature, from primary sources (ie economic data, demographic figures, past policies, speeches, White Papers etc).
Third, you won’t be able to respond to everything an author says. He/she has more words to play with (which itself does not feel like much once you write it, believe me!) and you have 500. That means you are going to have to be quite brutal about what is vital and should be included, and what is peripheral and deserves to be left out. In the introduction you should limit any descriptive background and context to the barest minimum, summarize the key points made by the article you are reviewing, and tell the reader exactly what your response is.
Preparation for a critical review should take much longer that the actual writing. Those after the best marks will want to demonstrate familiarity with the literature. Bright people tend to be inquisitive!
After reading your critical review article ask yourself ‘what else has been written about this topic, and where does this article fit?’ Other questions to ask yourself include ‘what are the key points of contention in the literature, and does the author’s case stand up to close scrutiny’? Then you can start asking what your OWN opinion is, how it differs from the article, and how you can demonstrate your
case.
Responses that focus on an author’s writing style or structure rarely score well, because this is seen as a cop-out. While we sometimes scratch our heads at the prose that makes in into print what is important is the ideas, not so much how they are trotted out. If an article makes it into publication with a leading journal you can be pretty sure that style isn’t a huge problem.
The skills that you learn here will be invaluable for other essays. Done right, a good critical review is excellent for getting you to challenge your own assumptions, take a stand on an issue, and sharpen your mind considerably.
To help you further I have done a mock synopsis: shorter than a critical review but long enough so that you get the gist of how to go about building a good essay. Please don’t reproduce this in your critical reviews by adding words relevant to your article and keeping the exact same skeleton: this is a guide!
By the way, I am aware that the attempts at humour are especially lame. What do you expect from an academic?
Topic: Why are there fleas on sheep?
This paper will demonstrate that the complex relationships between parasites and their hosts are
responsible for fleas on sheep. In doing so I argue that although there is some merit in established attempts to show either that sheep have little to do with the presence of fleas, or alternatively that sheep are the main force in attracting fleas, the best solution is to be found in more recent scholarship which attempts to synthesize the two approaches. This aim is achieved in two ways. First, I show that fleas rely upon access to sheep in order to survive. Second, I will argue that since fleas detect sheep through a sense akin to smell, the malodorous nature of sheep contributes significantly to the fleas’ presence.
Early efforts to identify the causes of fleas on sheep identified sheep as blameless victims (Ramsgate 1969, Lamb 1966, Ewing 1970). As Fred Woolnough (1999) has noted in his review of this literature, the Sheepists demonstrated that the blood-lust of fleas leads them to attack sheep in great numbers.
Moreover, this process has occurred repeatedly throughout history, and there have been numerous empirical case studies suggesting that this is a central facet of flea behaviour (see for instance M. Utton 1971 and K.E. Bab 1966). Indeed, there is also some data indicating that fleas routinely attack other mammals in addition to sheep (Bull 1986, Labrador 1974). This possibility seems at first glance to confirm that fleas are in fact the culprits in sheep infestation.
However, this approach is challenged by a rival school of thought which charges that while there may be some truth to Sheepist claims, their arguments are incomplete (Blud 1987, Hoppe 1991).
Specifically, these studies have argued, the Sheepists have cunningly deflected attention away from the fact that sheep are active attractors of fleas due to their smelly nature (Ick 1988, Pong 1990). As more evidence emerged from studies in the field, it became clear to some that fleas had perhaps been misjudged.
I would argue, however, that there is a more accurate rationale for fleas on sheep. As Andrew Compro (2000) notes, fleas as well as sheep may be equally to blame. This view is shared by Peter Mise (2002), who stresses the need for accommodation between the two competing strands in the literature.
My own research tends to confirm these findings. If fleas are placed in a jar, without any sheep
present, they will die in approximately three weeks. However, if one stuffs a sheep into the jar with the fleas, they will live quite happily (as will the sheep, provided it has some grass and air-holes in the jar).
Second, if a sheep is covered from the neck down with Glad Wrap, thus eliminating the majority of the odours, fleas will only settle on the exposed portions.
This leads me to conclude that both the Sheepists and Hopperites are correct. This argument should not be surprising, nor is it simply an attempt to combine two seemingly disparate approaches in an attempt to incoporate their own findings into my own. Rather, as I hope to demonstrate in my final paper, the data I have gathered will represent a convincing case that (a) sheep attract fleas and (b) fleas are attracted to sheep.
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