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The authors that I have read are the documents attached. Please start from week 4’s reading. It seems to be mroe helpfull.
In university courses, assignments (or assessments) are meant to give students the opportunity to show off what they have been learning in the course – and give instructors evidence that such learning is occurring. Because of these objectives, it is imperative to incorporate the specifics of what you’ve been studying in the course into writing your assignments. You accomplish this by answering the question in the assignment in terms of the readings for the course.
The format: an analytical essay
One assignment that you will see often as an assessment of what you’ve been studying is the analytical essay. This type of essay is very stylized and may be different from any type of writing you’ve done before. The reason this style of essay is so popular within the field of IR is that it has a very practical purpose.
In the practice of IR (out there in the “real world”), problem-solving is routine. As a university graduate and a critical thinker, you may be asked to look at an issue, figure out what is going on, and solve a problem. So think of an essay question as you would an assignment from your boss: “I need you to take a look at this problem and solve it for me using things from your IR toolkit. Present a well-written, concise answer to me in four pages. I need it by tomorrow morning.”
This is how it happens out in the world – and this is what your university education is preparing you to do. The trick in presenting an effective analytical essay is in its structure. To achieve structure in the essay, you need to follow an outline that organizes your thoughts and presents the analysis in a symmetrical, logical fashion. Your answer should be unique.
The importance of your “answer” or thesis statement
Think about your teenage years when you asked your parents to borrow the car. If they said to you, “Give me three good reasons why you should be able to take the car out on a Saturday night,” the three reasons you provide would be unique only to you and your experience.
The same process occurs when you read and learn about new ideas and concepts in the course material. What you take from it is unique to your critical thinking process. Answering the essay question is what creates a “thesis statement” – the thesis being YOUR big idea. The answer to the question is one that only you would provide because of your understanding of the overall topic and your critical analysis of the various parts of the problem.
How should you proceed with the midterm assignment
1. The first thing is to make sure that you have an accurate list of all the readings for the first four weeks of the course. You may want to make some notes about each reading – noting the author and date especially so that you can refer to them as if they were friends you’ve been talking to about a particular subject.
2. Think about the question you are being asked and how you can best answer it in terms of all the readings for Weeks 1-4 of the course. Remember, it is an assessment of how well you are learning the material so you want to show off what you know.
3. Don’t try to write the thesis statement first. Think about the question and then come up with a list of possible reasons. This list initially may have several reasons. What you want to do is to group the reasons in a logical way – one that makes sense in terms of IR. Very often groups of reasons fall into economic, political, social, cultural, and/or military reasons in IR. If the majority of “reasons why” fall into one of those groups, then that is a good indication of your overall answer or thesis.
4. Focus on supporting your arguments (or reasons why) rather than worrying about whether you are right or wrong. Let’s go back to the example of solving a problem for your boss in the real world. It doesn’t really matter whether you are offering the best solution to the problem, or one that should be the answer. Who determines that, anyway? Your boss, of course! What you want to be able to provide is sound and convincing arguments to your way of thinking. You may end up being right or being wrong. But as long as you’ve given it your best shot in supporting those arguments, you are on solid ground.
5. Focus on the interior parts of the essay – and write the introduction and conclusion last. Sometimes the process of writing actually helps you come to a conclusion. This is a natural process and one even the best writers follow. What has to happen, though, is that your thoughts need to be pulled together in some way into that overall statement or “answer.” So write the interior paragraphs (reasons why) first and then go back to write the introduction and conclusion.
One last thing. Remember that an analytical essay is highly-structured. That means each paragraph should look like all the others in terms of style and substance. Make sure that your introduction and conclusion are as substantial as the interior parts of the essay. One way to think about this is like a hamburger. The top and bottom buns are not as solid as what is inside, but they hold everything together. Writing to the limit (four pages) is an art and something you need to learn to do. So don’t write fewer than four pages and don’t write more. You may need to write over a just a little and then edit away the extra parts to bring the essay to four pages.
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