This part requires you to find, describe, recognise the relevance of and provide scholarly sources for an essay.  It must relate to the course theme of Humans and Other Animals (see below). Work during tutorials will be aimed at enabling the proper completion of this assignment through the appropriate selection of a topic. If you are unable to find a topic by week 3, one will be assigned for you at that time. It is much better, though, to find something about the theme that interests you. You will need to write 600 words. Your assignment must:
1. develop a title (this can be changed for the final assignment if necessary)
2. describe the topic related to a) some element of what makes humans human OR b) animals and their relationship to humans within shared environments OR c) Humans as Other Animals.  Only ONE of a) b) or c) need be the focus of your research assignment.
3. evaluate the importance of your research (eg how, where or why does it matter and to whom?)
4. develop a thesis statement indicating the style of essay you will write (eg analytical with a narrower focus, argumentative with a broader approach.  This is covered in a lecture).
5. correctly list a minimum of three SCHOLARLY sources in Harvard style bibliography. Non-scholarly sources you have used should not be listed at this point.
6) Underneath each scholarly source write approximately 100 (in total) words to:
a) identify the article's main point
b) identify two pieces of evidence that support that point (eg case studies, examples, references to other sources, statistics, quotations, analysis and commentary).
c) evaluate how the article is relevant to your thesis statement eg why the source may be useful. Does it provide background context? Evidence? Opposition with which you can then engage? A link to a point in your argument or analysis? Some other form of usefulness?
Part B: Critical Thinking (40 marks)
Do not repeat anything you may have already noted in Task One.
You do not have to write anything here in your own words. All your answers will be quotations; these will NOT contribute to your assignment word count.
Provide a correctly formatted in-text citation next to each quote. You may provide more than one quotation for each of the four elements of critical thinking if you wish. Note: citations do NOT contribute to your assignment word count.
 
This part requires no further research. You use the three scholarly sources you have already nominated in Part A to complete this section. You will be demonstrating an ability to identity the different modes of writing and thinking that underpin your academic work: describing, summarising/paraphrasing, evaluating and analysing. From any of the scholarly sources you have listed in the above section, provide examples of the following four elements of critical thinking being used by the writer of that article.
1) Previewing as Critical Engagement
Supply evidence of the expertise or reputation of either the writer of the article or the sources s/he has used
2) Summarising as Critical Engagement
Give an example of the writer of the article providing context for the topic through the lower order skills of summary or description. Say which you believe it to be.
3) Evaluation as Critical Engagement
Give an example of the writer of the article responding with the higher order skill of evaluating (determining the value or relevance of) other research s/he has found on the topic.
4)  Analysing as Critical Engagement
Give an example of the writer of the article using the higher order skill of analysing (breaking down into component parts) or synthesising (rebuilding) something s/he has found on the topic.

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