Essay Assignment:
1) 800 words, short critical analysis paper
2) Single spaced, 12pt font times new roman, normal margins!!
3) 2 academic sources (books, academic journals, scholarl articles) to develop concepts and extend analysis + 1 credible news source to define the issue + 2 articles by Gaventa to develop theoretical framework must include 6 sources.
4) Choose an issue in contemporary politics
5) Create a power cube combo to analyze the issue closely.
6) Focus in on two specific dimensions of the combo and what your analysis reveals about the nature of power and how it shapes the issue, lives of people in that scenario, etc. Your argument will come from -how- you apply your power cube to interpret and explain a part of the puzzle.
7) Readings: Make sure to read John Gaventa’s essays on the power cube to develop your theoretical framework, definition of dimensions. No paper will be acceped without this.
Structure of paper
a. Introduction
b. Thesis Statement (Scope, method (power cube), argument, concepts, case/issue)
c. Literature Review (Deconstruction of Theoretical Framework)
d. Re-Construction (Framing the issue using the power cube)
e. Synthesis (Extending analysis to draw on implications, develop argument)
f. Conclusion
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