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below, print this paper and take it to the student office, room MB775 no later than Friday 16 December 2011, 12.00am. I very much encourage you to bring the paper to the student office before the deadline not only on Friday. Please DO NOT submit the electronic version of this paper by email to the module convenor or to another university office. Write your candidate number here (NOT your name): 913219

Answer all six questions below: Question 1 What is the basic structure of any academic essay? Explain in 100 words what each part should contain. Write your answer in the box below: Introduction- Identify and explain the key terms of the essay topic, establishing key points that are going to be discussed in the essay. Briefly explain the main aspects of your argument without revealing too much. Main body- Divide different points into separate themes. Explain each point thoroughly with examples, linking the points back to the essay question and your secondary research. Use key research to backup your arguments. Conclusion Summarise each aspect of your essay in a simple coherent sentence linking them back to the essay question. Summarise your side of the argument and back it up with strong evidence.

Question 2 For one of your modules, you have been asked to write an essay on the Cold War. Identify 6 relevant bibliographical sources to support your research and organize the bibliography using the Harvard system. They should include 2 books, 1 chapter in an edited book, 1 academic journal article, 1 newspaper article and 1 website. Write your answer in the box below:
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1. Book: Callanan, JC, 2010. Covert action in the Cold War : US policy, intelligence and CIA
operations . 1st ed. London: I. B. Tauris.

2. Book: Antizzo, GJA, 2010. U.S. military intervention in the post-Cold War era : how to win
America's wars in the twenty-first century. 1st ed. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

3. Chapter in an edited book: Guderzo, M.G. & Bagnato, B.B. (2010), "U.S foreign policy in
Latin America, 1977-80". In Guderzo, M.G. The Globalization of the Cold War Diplomacy and Local Confrontation, 1975-85, Routledge, Oxon, pp.22-50

4. Academic journal article: LEGVOLD, RL, 2011. Eastern Europe and Former Soviet
Republics. Russia's Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall., Vol. 90 Issue 2, 181-182.

5. Newspaper article: Kramer, HK, 1999. The Second Cold War: This one is internal; Culture is
the battleground. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, 02 April. W13.

6. Website: BBC. 2011. Cold War. [ONLINE] Available at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/. [Accessed 15 December 11].

Question 3 On the basis of your bibliographical sources, formulate a relevant title for your essay. Write your answer in the box below:

Cold war : The Massive Chill Before Global Warming

Question 4 Write an introduction (200-250 words) to your prospective essay. Write your answer in the box below:

World War 2 led to a great amount of oppugnancy, hatred and enmity between the United Nation and the Soviet Union. Cold War is thus the name given to the era that best describes the mid-1940s up until the beginning of 1990s. Albeit, the Cold war was initially confined to Europe, the anathema and outrage eventually caused the United States and USSR to breakout into conflicts globally with military, political, diplomatic haggling, economic and ideological disputes. This could even be described as the clash between capitalism and communism. Declaration of the anti-communist policy by Turman The president of the United States was essentially the first initiation of the cold war. The differences between their policies and ideologies were largely highlighted and intensified as a result of the communal suspicions immediately after the Second World War. They represented two opposing systems of government. United States has free elections whereas government in the Soviet Union was to be formed by the Communist Party. People in the United States had the rights of assembly, speech and even of the press whereas it was the completely opposite case with the Soviet Union. Due to the major difference in their ideologies, compromises within their manifesto could not have been feasible. Both being major powers were not willing to settle for anything less than their own policies, thus this was the initial root cause for the Cold War.

Question 5 You have discussed in class the following text on the Cold War:

The deadlock between East and West was the single most momentous development in the post-World War II period and dominated the next half century. The term Cold War apparently originated in 1893 with German Marxist Edward Bernstein, who used it to describe the arms race in pre-World War I Europe in which there was no shooting but there was bleeding. It usage for the East-West confrontation, however, seems to have originated with the British writer George Orwell in an article of 19 October 1945. More famously, American financier Bernard Baruch used the phrase in the course of a speech in 1947. Put in its simplest terms, the Cold War was the rivalry that developed between the two superpowers the Soviet Union and the United States as each sought to fill the power vacuum left by the defeat of Germany and Japan. Leaders on each side believed that they were forced to expand their national hegemony by the aggressive actions of the other. Misunderstandings, bluff, pride, personal and geopolitical ambitions, and simple animosity between the two sides grew until the struggle became the Cold War (Spencer C. Tucker, Origins of the Cold War to 1950 in Spencer C. Tucker, The Encyclopedia of the Cold War. A Political, Social, and Military History, Santa Barbara: ABC Clio, 2008, p. 11). Some of your classmates have relied, sometimes too heavily, in their writing on this text. Comment the examples below and explain whether or not they are instances of good academic practice (no more than 100 words for each example below). Example 1 German Marxist Edward Bernstein invented the term Cold War by suggesting the arms race in pre-World War I Europe in which there was no shooting but there was bleeding.

Relates directly to plagiarism as it has been copied word to word. There is no reference or evidence of direct quotation marks. The words have simply been put in different places in the same sentence which definitely relates directly back to complete plagiarism.

Example 2 The Cold War was the rivalry that developed between the two superpowers the Soviet Union and the United States after the defeat of Germany and Japan. As Tucker points out, Leaders on each side believed that they were forced to expand their national hegemony by the aggressive actions of the other (Tucker, 2008, p. 11).

This is again a development from the given text, but in this case its not considered complete plagiarism because there are some citing of quotation marks and a reference too. Nevertheless, the beginning did not have quotation marks and the reference seems to be incomplete as there is no mention of the title, etc. It is also not the accurate Harvard
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referencing required by the university.

Example 3 Much has been written about the origins of the Cold War. As Specer Tucker observes the Cold War was the rivalry that developed between the two superpowers the Soviet Union and the United States as each sought to fill the power vacuum left by the defeat of Germany and Japan (2008, p. 11). This is related to the text but not been copied straight forward. Thus it is not a case of plagiarism but more of a development of the text using the given text merely as help. The cited parts from the text are quoted and then explained further. A referencing has been done but it is again incomplete and does not include the title or the name. It is also not the accurate Harvard referencing required by the university.

Question 6: Look at the following website for about 4/5 minutes each, go to home pages, explore links etc and then write an evaluation for each site (no more than 100 words for each website). Would it be a website that you could cite in an essay? a. http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/USRA_Cold_War_Ends.htm Write your answer in the box below:

Highly unlikely to sight in a university level essay as it is based on sixth form material. No details of where it was started .The sources are non traceable and it does not seem like an official and reliable source. Quality control level is not given and it seems very United States orientated , thus highly biased when it comes to USSR. Small breadth of resources. The main aim seems commercial rather than educational due to the high level of adverts. Cant reference back so unlikely to be cited in an essay.

b. http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/index.php/article/2011/11/russians_leaving_country_i n_droves Write your answer in the box below:

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Gives insight into a nationals view. Partly factual and party analytical. Proof of publishing date and author, but no cite of publisher. Quotable but not 100 percent reliable as sources are not entirely traceable. Non-academic source of publication. Much less likely to be seen in an essay. Much more sport orientated than academic based. A lot of commercial advertising cited. Not very related to the basic topic.

c. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War_(1985-1991) Write your answer in the box below: Likely to be cited in an essay. Reliable and unbiased source. Partially academic source of publication. Big issue of being edited as anyone holding a wikipedia account can edit the information. Not an official publisher but an official website and seems well researched. Quotable. Factual. Similar facts on various other sites too.

d. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2691_131/ai_95916122/ Write your answer in the box below: Highly likely to be cited in an essay, based on the academic sources. Not official publisher but can be easily referenced back to. The facts are reliable as have been found elsewhere on Google too. The sources are traceable and fairly impartial. Quite quotable and somewhat original.

e. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01402382.2011.572385 Write your answer in the box below: Most likely to be cited in the essays. Highly academic resource. Very reliable as it has been downloaded on behalf of the university. No adverts , thus not commercial. Publish date, sources and publisher are all traceable and the link is impartial. Highly quotable and the