Task 9 Short Review Article

Task 9– Short review article

Option 1.

"America's First Pacific President? U.S. - European relations under Barack Obama"

On Wednesday 14December at 11.00 in Room 003 Prof. Mario Del Pero–Researcher in Contemporary History at the Center for History at Science Po in Paris -held the annual “Targetti Lecture” in honour of former Director of the School of International Studies, Ferdinando Targetti.

Following the Lecture, the Degree Awarding Ceremony was held for both PhD graduates and MEIS graduates.

Option 1: "The United Nations and Global Governance"

Youhave been asked by the University Periodical UNITNMag to write a short review of the lecture.

You are completely free to adopt any stance regarding the lecture (content/delivery/speaker/audience participation etc), but you should take into account the context and your readership.

If you want to see a review in Italian written about a previous Guest Lecture at the SIS see

You can find examples of reviews of another Guest Lecture by former students on the webpage.

Option 2:

This house believes that soft drugs should be legalized

Youhave been asked by the University Periodical UNITNMag to write a short review of the debate held on Wednesday 14th December.

You are completely free to adopt any stance regarding the debate (content/speakers/audience participation etc), and you can state your own position re the motion. But you should take into account the context and your readership.

You can find examples of reviews by former students of a different debate on the webpage.

ESSENTIAL AND NON-ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF A REVIEW

In class on Wednesday 7th you were given some examples of reviews to provide you with an idea of the kinds of reviews you can write. They were NOT intended as perfect models, quite the opposite, they were intended to make you reflect on the different approaches there are to writing a review of a lecture.

During the feedback session in class YOU came up with the following essential and non-essential elements of a review.

Here is the table (thanks to Chiara) which you can use as a check list for your reviews.

*non-essential elements:

N.B. Some of the above overlap (e.g. Intro/context) and/or can be repeated (e.g. for and against/Q&A.) Apart from the obvious ones, you do not necessarily need to strictly follow the order.

OTHER NON-ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS:

Rhetorical devices such as rhetorical questions, headings

In addition to taking account of these elements, which all contribute to Task Achievement, as usual your work will be evaluated on Coherence and Cohesion (well organised both on a macro and micro level), Lexical Range, Grammatical Accuracy and Style and Register.

Please send me your reviews before you come to see me for our mid-year meeting (see separate instructions)

You should provide a title for your reviews, and a one line subtitle, even though you would not be expected to do this in reality (this is the job of the editorial team)

Your articles should be between 600 and 800 words.

You should also provide bio data about the author.

Happy writing.