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Comprehensive Essay Writing Guide: Structuring Your Final Exam Review

Learn how to effectively structure your final exam review essay by covering key issue areas, theories, and tenets. Compare theories, apply knowledge, and keep your introduction and conclusion concise. Use headings to organize your thoughts systematically for clarity and coherence. Explore various concepts and assess the future of International Relations through the lens of individuals' impact on shaping structural changes over time. Discover inspiring examples like Jody Williams and Razia Jan to understand how individuals can drive meaningful transformations.

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Comprehensive Essay Writing Guide: Structuring Your Final Exam Review

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  1. Review for final exam

  2. Structure of essay • Your thoughts?

  3. Structure of essay: My thoughts • Lots to cover: 2 issue areas, 3 theories, 6 tenets • Cover as many tenets as you can cover well, at least • Ensure you • Cover major points • Compare across theories and across issue areas • Show clear knowledge of theories and application • Keep intro and conclusion short • Use headings

  4. My suggested structure • Intro • Focus • Describe facts about Focus: conflict is common in issue 1 but cooperation among people in different countries more common in issue 2; in both issues there is some cooperation among countries • Facts of Issue 1 fit best with focus of Realists while facts of Issue 2 fit better with focus of Feminist/Disenfranchised view; similarities in interstate cooperation fit better with institutionalism • Repeat for A-G-M-O-D • Compare issues: overall, Institutionalism explains more of Issue 1 but Realism plus Feminist theories explains more of Issue 2 • Conclusion

  5. Applications to different issue areas • Security • IPE • Human rights • Environment

  6. Concepts • Security • Conflict, cooperation, harmony • Power • Role of states • Goals of states • Means states use • Roles of institutions

  7. The future of IR • Focus • Actors • Goals • Means • Organizing Principle • Dynamics

  8. Individuals can make a difference • Structure vs. agency as deep theme of course • How to act in small ways that make big changes to structure over time • 1,000s of small decisions each year – bias your decisions toward your goals • Individuals can make a difference • Jody Williams and Campaign to Ban Landmines • Razia Jan: Afghan-born, lives in Massachusetts, provides free education to Afghan girls • Skateistan (min 1-8)

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