Essay opposition
Choose an article of your interest to complete the following assignment. Address the following in your essay:
1- Is it in- and extra-scientific relevance? What consequences does the problem formulation have for other parts of the essay? What kind of problem formulation has the author landed in? Explains the author what will be his own contribution and why is interesting to study?
2- How the author relates to the theories and the research that exists around the question? Are there different theoretical inputs that the author could have chosen, and if so, why are they excluded? Shows the author’s ability to use previous research independently? Used previously research clearly to anchor the purpose of the essay?
3- Are they reasonable, fertile and apparently different from each other? Are the issues more precise than the purpose? Are the issues being sufficiently concrete and well-defined with the help of the theoretical tools and concepts that have been carved out? What consequences will have their wording for what is done in the results section of the essay?
4- Is the layout and method suitable, given problems and purpose? Which cases have been chosen and why? Is it clear what the author has made? How are different phenomena investigated? Could something has been done differently? What implications does this have? Is there an analysis schedule and how well specified and is it limited? The analysis schedule is clearly related to the issues? Could the author have combined different types of material in an interesting way and become more confident in their conclusions?
5- Is it clear how the conclusions are drawn? Are they reasonable? What are the implications of the conclusions on a scientific and a more general level? Does the author succeed in raising the issue and reconnecting to the starting point of the essay? What are there for alternative / future questions and approaches after this essay?
