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Untitled Research essay plan Value: 10% Due: Friday 3rd May, 5pm Length: 1-2 pages The research essay plan is intended to provide structure for the research essay due at the end of the semester. The plan should include an outline of the topics that will be covered in the essay, and where in the essay each topic will be located. Students will receive feedback on their essay plan in time to help complete their final research essay. What you need to include: • Proposed title • Thesis statement • 6-8 topic sentences • At least one reference per topic sentence • Bibliography What to do: 1) Brainstorm some ideas. This involves writing down as many different ideas, theories and examples that relate to your chosen offence as possible. You have already completed some preliminary research into your topic as part of your annotated bibliography, so there should be lots of ideas floating around your head already. Don’t rule anything out at this stage. You are not submitting this stuff – the point here is to get as many different ideas down as possible. 2) Start arranging these ideas into a coherent narrative. This means selecting those ideas that best illustrate how you think of and understand your topic. Pick those that seem the most relevant and important in explaining your chosen offence. 3) Write a thesis statement. A thesis statement is a very short (1-2 sentences maximum) description of what your essay is about. It will summarise in a nutshell what you are arguing in your essay. For example: ‘This essay will argue that the best theory for explaining car theft is strain theory’. 4) Identify the main points that will comprise your argument. These should include what theories you will be discussing and how they relate to your chosen offence. All of your main points should be relevant to the thesis statement. 5) Use your main points to write a series of 6-8 topic sentences. Topic sentences are statements of the main ideas that you intend to explain in your essay. They are the claims that support your argument, and usually are used as the opening sentence in each paragraph. The purpose of the remainder of the paragraph is to back up and elaborate upon the topic sentence. Examples of topic sentences include: • ‘Car theft results in significant costs to the Australian public’. • ‘Certain communities are more vulnerable to car theft than others’. • ‘Unemployment has a strong influence upon rates of car theft’. • ‘Explaining car theft requires an understanding of structural theories of crime’. • ‘Strain theory is better than other theories for a variety of reasons’. 6) Following each topic sentence, briefly indicate what research you are going to use to demonstrate your point. Include a reference to at least one scholarly source. Examples: • Topic sentence: Car theft results in significant costs to the Australian public. • Evidence/research: To demonstrate this point I plan to use a report from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (2013) outlining the value of cars stolen in Australia in 2012. • Topic sentence: Explaining car theft requires an understanding of structural theories of crime. • Evidence/research: Reference Merton’s strain theory as outlined by White & Perrone (2012) and Peterson et al (2006). 7) List each reference in the bibliography. Important things to remember • Include research you have found yourself. References from the textbook will not be counted. • Use proper SAGE Harvard formatting for your bibliography. • You can extend beyond journal articles and books in your source selection – statistics from reputable sources are acceptable, particularly when outlining the dimensions of your topic. Feel free to include the sources from your annotated bibliography. • You are not beholden to the ideas you present. The purpose of this assessment is to get you thinking methodically about your topic. Your ideas will probably change as you start writing and researching in depth. • That being said, this is also an opportunity to get feedback about your plan and proposed approach to the topic. Also you are being assessed so submit something worthwhile! Useful Links http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples/examples-of-topic-sentences.html https://student.unsw.edu.au/essay-and-assignment-writing http://www.monash.edu.au/lls/llonline/writing/general/essay/essay-plan/index.xml http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples/examples-of-topic-sentences.html https://student.unsw.edu.au/essay-and-assignment-writing http://www.monash.edu.au/lls/llonline/writing/general/essay/essay-plan/index.xml Marking Rubric Criterion High Distinction Distinction Credit Pass Fail Understanding of topic Highly sophisticated, demonstrated understanding of the task. Superior demonstrated understanding of the task. Good demonstrated understanding of the task. Adequate understanding of the task. Does not demonstrate understanding of the task/topic or fundamentally misinterprets task/topic. Appropriate use of research and selection of sources Each topic sentence excellently supported with a variety of relevant and appropriate scholarly references. Topic sentences well supported by appropriate scholarly references. Consistently demonstrated research. Source selection could be improved. Some evidence of research used to support topic sentences. Poor source selection. Lack of appropriate research. Referencing and bibliography In-text and bibliography are detailed and free of formatting errors. Strong use and detail of appropriate scholarly sources. Generally accurate use of in-text referencing and bibliography. Some errors. Some attempt at referencing but significant and persistent errors. Referencing and bibliography not of tertiary standard. Untitled SAGE UK Style Guide 17 6.1 SAGE Harvard 1. General 1. Initials should be used without spaces or full points. 2. Up to three authors may be listed. If more are provided, then list the first three authors and represent the rest by et al. Fewer authors followed by et al. is also acceptable. 2. Text citations 1. All references in the text and notes must be specified by the authors’ last names and date of publication together with page numbers if given. 2. Do not use ibid., op. cit., infra., supra. Instead, show the subsequent citation of the same source in the same way as the first. 3. Where et al. is used in textual citations, this should always be upright, not italic. Note the following for the style of text citations: 1. If the author’s name is in the text, follow with year in parentheses: ... Author Last Name (year) has argued ... 2. If author’s name is not in the text, insert last name, comma and year: ... several works (Author Last Name, year) have described ... 3. Where appropriate, the page number follows the year, separated by a colon: ... it has been noted (Author Last Name, year: page nos) that ... 4. Where there are two authors, give both names, joined by ‘and’; if three or more authors, use et al.: ... it has been stated (Author Last Name and Author Last Name, year) ... ... some investigators (Author Last Name et al., year) ... 5. If there is more than one reference to the same author and year, insert a, b, etc. in both the text and the list: ... it was described (Author Last Name, yeara, yearb) ... 6. Enclose within a single pair of parentheses a series of references, separated by semicolons: ... and it has been noted (Author Last Name and Author Last Name, year; Author Last Name and Author Last Name, year; Author Last Name, year) ... Please order alphabetically by author names. 7. If two or more references by the same author are cited together, separate the dates with a comma: ... the author has stated this in several studies (Author Last Name, year, year, year, year) ... Please start with the oldest publication. 8. Enclose within the parentheses any brief phrase associated with the reference: ... several investigators have claimed this (but see Author Last Name, year: page nos–page nos) 9. For an institutional authorship, supply the minimum citation from the beginning of the complete reference: ... a recent statement (Name of Institution, year: page nos) ... ... occupational data (Name of Bureau or Institution, year: page nos) reveal ... 10. For authorless articles or studies, use the name of the magazine, journal, newspaper or sponsoring organization, and not the title of the article: ... it was stated (Name of Journal, year) that ... 11. Citations from personal communications are not included in the reference list: ... has been hypothesized (Name of Person Cited, year, personal communication). SAGE UK Style Guide 18 3. Reference list 1. Check that the list is in alphabetical order (treat Mc as Mac). 2. Names should be in upper and lower case. 3. Where several references have the same author(s), do not use ditto marks or em dashes; the name must be repeated each time. 4. Last Names containing de, van, von, De, Van, Von, de la, etc. should be listed under D and V respectively. List them as: De Roux DP and not Roux DP, de. When cited in the main text without the first name, use capitals for De, Van, Von, De la, etc. (Van Dijk, year) 5. Names