Firstly I would like to thank you very much for taking on the writing of my essay! The following paragraphs are what are written in our unit guide, and demonstrate the expectations of the essay:
Legislation Exercise #2 – Critiquing Legislation
35% of final grade
2000 words
For this piece of assessment you are required to use the skills obtained in the first legislation exercise to critique a current piece of legislation (see below). That is, you should look at how the empirical evidence supports or fails to support current legislation and whether the legislation is consistent with liberal theory.
For this assessment you are required to critique:
“The censorship of violent materials in Australia”
(My topic is censorship on violent video games)
Do not critique any specific legislation (how it is worded).
You must critique the notion of violence censorship from both an empirical perspective, and a theoretical perspective (liberal theory and the harm principle).
This assessment should be presented in essay format. You need to fully reference all sections of your essay.
ESSAY MUST BE FOR AUSTRALIAN LEGISLATION!
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
These are additional notes I have received from my tutor:
Some thoughts regarding legislation exercise one, and number two…
One of the things that have become apparent when marking the first legislation exercise is that many students are seeking the ‘right’ answer. There is none! University study is not about a correct answer. What I am looking for is an understanding of liberalism – which doesn’t come about because you can define parts of it. True understanding comes from applying a theory and this is what I have asked you to do. There is no right or wrong argument, but you do need to present an argument. I am looking for an argument which is coherent, supported by evidence (in other words references) and which is logical.
Read more, is basically the answer. I have attached a few articles for you to look at. You need to access the literature – the peer reviewed journal articles – in which scholars argue, theorize, postulate and debate. This is where you should get all your material from. The articles I have attached may or may not be directly related to the focus you have chosen for your paper, and it doesn’t matter. What matters is that this is the type of material you are reading for the theory component of your paper. I found little evidence that people were not accessing the literature to determine the empirical section of their work – it was the theory section which consistently let people down. You need to engage with the material – think about it, mull it over, and think how it is related to the logic of your basic argument.
So here I present a simplistic basic argument:
1. Liberty is freedom to do what you want
2. You may do what you want as long as you don’t harm another
3. Watching violence (or playing violent games etc) doesn’t harm another
4. But the literature discusses whether indirect harm counts – so is there any indirect harm…
5. Empirical evidence of indirect harm (such as increasing aggression levels)
Each one of those points requires research and supporting literature. This is very simplistic and I hope people don’t follow this exactly (without embellishment at least) and think they will get a good grade. But it provides a basic framework.
DO NOT –
• Reference textbooks
• Reference lectures
• Reference books generally if it can be helped
• NEVER reference a webpage!!!!!
Work on your search terms to narrow down something like a Google Scholar search (such as, Liberalism violent censorship) – if you are focusing on video games (for example) add that term.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you again, I have found this essay quite difficult to write!
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