For Tutorial Exercise 1 you are to complete a 200 word summary on the essential reading for Week 2 OR Week 3. For the summary you will need to provide a brief statement of the author’s thesis position or author’s argument and the key points that support this in your own words. Marks will be deducted for the inclusion of quotes. You will need to be very succinct in the summary as you only have 200 words to summarise the essence of the reading. The details of the Summary are as follows:
Summary: Due 11.30pm Friday 6 August 2021
The details for each of the essential readings are as follows. Remember you only choose ONE of the following readings.
Bisley, Nick. (2017). The Cold War and after. (Chapter 10, pp. 155-167). In Devetak, Richard, Jim George and Sarah Percy (Eds.), An Introduction to International Relations (3rd edition). Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.
Dear Students
This is a reminder that the summary is due at 11.30pm on Friday 6 August. The normal 10% under and over of the required length is acceptable. If the summary goes over 250 words then it will be penalised.
Some students have asked me whether you need to include a reference list in the summary and also a cover sheet. If you are not sure the following answers these questions
- You must always include a reference list in all assessments in this unit even when there is only one reference. This is good practice to get into as not including a reference list will result in marks being deducted in most units of study.
- You do not include a cover sheet in any of the assessments. When you submit an assessment item on turnitin you are certifying five things that are listed on the cover sheet in terms of plagiarism. These are listed on page 13 of the Learning Guide under Turnitin. Please do not include a cover sheet as it will also increase your similarity report.
| Criteria/ Standards | Excellent (85-100) | Very Good (75-84) | Good (65-74) | Fair (50-64) | Unsatisfactory (0-49) |
| Accurate and concise summary | Highly accurate, excellent judgement of what to include and appropriate length | Very accurate, very good judgement of what to include, appropriate length | Accurate, good judgement of what to include, appropriate length | Reasonably accurate, some good judgement of what to include, appropriate or close to appropriate length | Inaccurate, no or low level judgement of what to include, much too long or too short |
| Use of own words | Written entirely in own words with well executed paraphrasing | Use of own words throughout, high quality paraphrasing | Use of own words mostly or throughout, good paraphrasing | Use of own words mostly, fair quality or inconsistent paraphrasing | Too close to text, bordering on plagiarism or crude ‘cut and paste’ |
| Compliance with scholarly conventions | Complete compliance with referencing style and due acknowledgement of sources and ideas with no or very minor mistakes | Mostly compliant with referencing style and due acknowledgement of sources and ideas with few lapses | Good effort, but with minor lapses in compliance with referencing style and/or in acknowledgement of sources and ideas | Basic effort to comply with referencing style and to acknowledge sources and ideas properly, but with mistakes | Little or no compliance with referencing style and/or acknowledgement of sources and ideas |
| English expression, correct spelling and grammar | Fluent, literate, clear and elegant with no or only very minor grammatical or spelling errors | Fluent, literate, clear sentences with very few grammatical or spelling errors | Generally well written and literate with some lapses in clarity or some clumsy sentences and/or with some grammatical and spelling errors | Not well written, with some unclear passages, some poorly constructed sentences or paragraphing with too many grammatical and/or spelling errors | Badly written, unclear, many sentences poorly constructed with many errors in grammar and spelling – does not meet minimum literacy standards |