Cambrigde Global Perspectives AS And A Level – David Towsey

In the next chapter, we will discuss in detail how you might actually go about writing each part of your essay, but that will be closely informed by what we have established here. In this chapter we have: • considered the role of reflection in essay writing • defined what an essay is and considered the differences between essays in other subjects and Global Perspectives & Research refined topics into more focused issues about which essays can be written organised issues into opposing perspectives using themes identified the most appropriate question types to use for essays • analysed and evaluated effective essay questions against a range of criteria • explored a range of approaches to clarifying the terms used in questions in order to focus your thinking and arguments.

Successful essays are the result of planning as much as writing (which is dealt with in Chapter 5). This chapter has provided some guidance for that process by considering how topics can be refined into issues and organised into perspectives using themes so that your essays are focused in an appropriate way for the Global Perspectives & Research course. Effective questions are also crucial to successful essays, and the remainder of the chapter has been dedicated to methods for developing questions which work well, and organising your thoughts further by clarifying terms to remove vagueness and ambiguity.

■ Cambridge International AS & A Level Global Perspectives & Research Practising question planning This section of the chapter is divided into three: firstly, establishing work with planning essay questions, secondly, developing the skill of question planning and finally, enhancing question planning and writing. Each section is designed to build on the one before. You can either work through each section in turn or choose the section that you feel is at the most appropriate level for you.

You should see a progression of difficulty through the three levels, but they are also linked in this chapter to the distinctive skills we have established. These sections use a variety of topics from the Cambridge International AS & A Level Global Perspectives & Research syllabus. Some are specified, but in other cases you are invited to choose your own.

This is intended to be part of your progression towards working independently as you choose essay topics of your own, and construct your own questions. Establishing work with planning essay questions Read through the fol lowing list of possible essay questions.

Who is this book for? This book is designed to support students and teachers with the Cambridge International AS & A Level Global Perspectives & Research syllabus (9239). Global Perspectives & Research is an unusual course in that it has several distinctive purposes: • It is designed to be global in scope, introducing you to issues which affect a range of different people across the world, and are of sharp contemporary relevance for our planet in the 21st century.

• It encourages you to explore different perspectives – alternative ways of seeing particular situations – and to appreciate that there is usually more than one perspective on any issue we encounter. • Although intended to be a valuable experience in itself, it is also intended to support the development of academic skills which you can apply to other subjects you are doing, and that will also support you with the next stage of education or work.

By completing this course, you will acquire specific ways of working and attitudes to study that will change the way you approach all of your academic studies, not just this AS or A Level. The nature of Cambridge Global Perspectives® Global Perspectives & Research is unlike most AS & A Level courses in that it is cumulative and integrated.

It is cumulative in that each stage builds on the previous one, and your success in each of the assessments depends in a very direct way on the ones you have previously completed, and the work you have done before. It is integrated in that the course as a whole fits very closely together, and the skills and attitudes you learn will depend on everything that you have done, and not individual units or assessments taken separately. The ideas that each stage of the course builds on the one before, and that the whole of the course can be seen together, are brought together in a metaphor called the Critical Path.

This is introduced in detail in Chapter 1, but the book will continue to use it as a representation of the skills you are developing and how they fit together.

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