the essay isn't due for a while so please feel free to ask anything and please self edit as ive given a lot of time also providing the reference guide ive chosen for the task also self mark the project as ive given the rubric
It is intended that students will work on the essay independently. Students who have plagiarised will be awarded a mark of zero, will not be permitted to resubmit, and may be reported to the University Disciplinary Committee for further action.
The essay counts towards 30% of your final mark for the unit.
Your essay should include a list of the references cited, using a referencing style of your choice. The word limit for the essay is 1500 (excluding reference list).
Untitled ECON3081 ESSAY MARKING RUBRIC (?? ) (15 marks): Provide a reasonably detailed account of the history and evolution of the . The student has shown evidence of research capabilities with the selection of an array of appropriate articles. 2 marks The overall evolution of the economics of the renewable energy is detailed accurately and with a sufficient level of detail. 3 marks At least three seminal papers in the field are discussed in detail. The economic research methods used by the author(s) of these papers are evaluated. 5 marks The student demonstrates an accurate and complete understanding of the economics of the energy e r that goes beyond paraphrasing and summarising existing writing. 4 marks The chosen articles are properly referenced and the essay is formatted appropriately. 1 mark (?? ) (5 marks): Explain how you will use the insights obtained in part (a) to carry out your ECON3081 research project. A brief description of the group's research project is provided in order to provide context for subsequent writing. 1 mark Potential connections between the group's current research project and the answers in part (a) are outlined. 2 marks The student displays a thorough understanding of the complexities of the economic research process and shows insight and creativity regarding its link to the group research project. 2 marks Untitled ECON3081 _ESSAY Total mark: 20 DUE: 9pm - Sunday 11 OCT 2020 Preamble The role of energy in economy is very important and dynamic. This essay is an opportunity for you to explore some aspects of the energy industry – and in the process help inform and support your Research Project work. (?? ) (15 marks): Provide a reasonably detailed account of the history and evolution of the renewable energy in Australia. (?? ) (5 marks): Explain how you will use the insights obtained in part (?? ) to carry out your research project. H. R. 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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 containing Jr or II should be listed as follows: • Author Last Name Initial Jr (year) • Author Last Name Initial II (year) 6. References where the first-named author is the same should be listed as follows: • Single-author references in date order; • Two-author references in alphabetical order according to the second author’s name; • Et al. references in alphabetical order; in the event of more than one entry having the same date, they should be placed in alphabetical order of second (or third) author, and a, b, etc. must be inserted. Brown J (2003) Brown TR and Yates P (2003) Brown W (2002) Brown W (2003a) Brown W (2003b) Brown W and Jones M (2003) Brown W and Peters P (2003) Brown W, Hughes J and Kent T (2003a) Brown W, Kent T and Lewis S (2003b) 7. Check that all periodical data are included – volume, issue and page numbers, publisher, place of publication, etc. 8. Journal titles should not be abbreviated in SAGE Harvard journal references 9. Where et al. is used in reference lists, it should always be upright, not italic. 4. Reference styles Book Clark JM and Hockey L (1979) Research for Nursing. Leeds: Dobson Publishers. Book chapter Gumley V (1988) Skin cancers. In: Tschudin V and Brown EB (eds) Nursing the Patient with Cancer. London: Hall House, pp.26–52. Journal article Huth EJ, King K and Lock S (1988) Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. British Medical Journal 296(4): 401–405. Journal article published ahead of print Huth EJ, King K and Lock S (1988) Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. British Medical Journal. Epub ahead of print 12 June 2011. DOI: 10.1177/09544327167940. Website National Center for Professional Certification (2002) Factors affecting organizational climate and retention. Available at: www.cwla.org./programmes/triechmann/2002fbwfiles (accessed 10 July 2010). Thesis/dissertation Clark JM (2001) Referencing style for journals. PhD Thesis, University of Leicester, UK. http://www.cwla.org./programmes/triechmann/2002fbwfiles SAGE UK Style Guide 19 Newspaper/magazine Clark JM (2006) Referencing style for journals. The Independent, 21 May, 10. Conference article (published or unpublished) Clark JM and Smith P (2002) Latest research on car exhaust manifolds. In: 17th international conference on strain analysis (ed L Macadam), London, UK, 23–25 September 2010, pp.12–14. London: Professional Engineering Publishing. Blog Clark JM (2006) Article title. In: Blog title. Available at: www.blogit.com/johnmatthewclark (accessed 20 August 2011). Report 1. MacDonald S (2008) The state of social welfare in the UK. Report, University of Durham, UK, June.