Instructions
Critical Essay 1400 words:
Based on your data analysis and reading of key sources, you will produce a critical essay which includes the following:
a) a brief summary of your interviewees’ responses
b) an evaluation of the data (i.e. interviewees’ responses) with reference to some key concepts in global studies
c) evidence of your ability to critically reflect on the concept of globalisation, making reference to at least three relevant sources.
In your essay you are striving for a balance between reporting on your findings and offering some conceptual analysis within the word limit (i.e. not too much or too little of either). You should incorporate key concepts, ideas and theories from at least three relevant sources.
Please mention the interviewees names in the essay (My mother, My friend ”Aziz”)
Essential Reading:
Martell, Luke. 2010. The Sociology of Globalization. Cambridge: Polity.
Giddens, Anthony. 2002. Runaway World: How Globalisation is Reshaping Our Lives. London: Profile Books.
Cohen, Robin and Paul Kennedy. 3013. Global Soviology, 3rd edition. Basingstoke:Palgrave Macmillan.
Please if you have any of the following books above use it, because they are the key sources
Should be please:
•? Information reasonably full and accurate
•? Well presented
•? Logical, coherent and lucid
•? Appropriate selection of content/ theory/ style in key areas
•? Clear identification of the issues
•? Evidence of wide and relevant reading
•? Appropriate application of theory
•? Evidence of evaluation/ justification/ critical thought
•? Referencing relevant and accurate
•? Clear evidence of understanding
•? Grammar, spelling and punctuation accurate
•? Good focus on module’s aims and themes
•? Conclusions well argued and substantiated