Paper 1: Synthesis writing.
Environmental issues in the UAE
Course weighting: 20% of total course marks
Rationale
In the first four weeks we have focused on reading for understanding and summarizing the main points / key ideas of short articles.
This task for your academic paper builds on those skills and adds in the skill of synthesis, which is one of the ‘critical thinking’ skills identified in Bloom’s taxonomy. It involves drawing together material from different sources you have read and using it to answer the topic question.
Topic Question: How can environmental issues best be addressed in the UAE?
Use three of the The National newspaper articles provided as the source material to support your response to this question.
Use the theme groupings to help you decide on a focus
A and B are quite general
The rest are grouped by theme but there could be some overlap, eg waste and pollution
Assessment: There will be 5 assessment criteria:
Thought and analysis
Synthesis and use of evidence / source material
Structure and cohesion of essay (paragraphing, development of ideas, etc)
Accuracy (words and sentence level grammar / ‘mechanics’).
Style (appropriately formal and impersonal)
Quality of revisions (response to feedback on draft)
[see assessment criteria sheet for details]
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