{"id":128098,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/history-on-western-civilisation"},"modified":"2017-08-16T06:24:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:24:31","slug":"history-on-western-civilisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/history-on-western-civilisation\/","title":{"rendered":"History on Western Civilisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Final Essay Instructions<br \/> Essay length is to be approximately 2,000 words in length. A variation of up to 10% is permitted. Neither footnotes nor citations count towards word count however quotations are included.<br \/> The essay will be assessed according to the following criteria:<br \/> \u2022 Ability to analyse significant social and political influences on the development of various western philosophical traditions.<br \/> \u2022 An understanding of the social, cultural and political context to the development of the idea of the west.<br \/> \u2022 An understanding of the historical circumstances and empirical details of the era under investigation.<br \/> \u2022 An understanding of the political, cultural, social and philosophical issues facing the practice of historical research and historiography.<br \/> \u2022 Utilization of a wide variety of source materials in research.<br \/> \u2022 Correct citation of sources and construction of bibliography.<br \/> \u2022 A creative and innovative approach to the topic as framed in their chosen essay question.<br \/> \u2022 The ability to critically evaluate and apply their sources in answering their question.<\/p>\n<p>Essay Question<br \/> Students are to formulate an essay question with their tutor on one of the topics covered in the weekly lecture topics and readings.<br \/> They must be able to phrase this as a question which can be answered in the course of the essay.<br \/> They must also have their specific question topic approved by their tutor.<br \/> Some suggested questions might be \u2013<br \/> \u2022 What were the major factors which led to the collapse (or rise) of the Western Roman Empire?<br \/> Or<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 To what extent was the industrial revolution based on the philosophy of the Enlightenment?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final Essay Instructions Essay length is to be approximately 2,000 words in length. A variation of up to 10% is permitted. Neither footnotes nor citations count towards word count however quotations are included. The essay will be assessed according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/history-on-western-civilisation\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}