Format for Comparative Education Essay

 

 

Instructions:

Your essay should be no longer that 15 pages in length with 1.5 spacing. Please ensure that you spell check your essay before submitting it and provide reference citations for facts and assertions provided in your essay. All essays are to be submitted on the last day of class.

 

Dimensions of a good essay:

(1) Within the introduction to your essay, clearly identify the specific school to work transition themes you wish to explore, what your objectives are in writing this essay and how these objectives relate to specific course readings. Be sure to establish your comparative focus in writing the essay.

 

(2) Establish the comparative methodology or methodologies you employ in conducting the research in writing this comparative education essay. Be sure to relate such methodologies to course readings and cite references.

 

(3) What specific research questions are you raising in your essay with regard to similarities/differences in school-work transitions for the countries being compared?

 

(4) Identify and discuss the comparative theoretical perspective you employ in tackling the research questions raised. Be sure to base this discussion on assigned readings and readings you have identified outside of the course. Cite references.

 

(5) Present information relevant to the research questions you have raised, providing clear documentation of references found through literature review, internet exploration, interviews and all other sources of information.

 

(6) Develop a conclusion section drawing upon you comparative perspective as developed in (4); evaluate the similarities and differences in school-work transitions you have located and briefly discuss needed comparative research in the area you have investigated in this essay.

 

 

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