AWA: Academic Writing at Auckland

Essay arguing that the effects of technology on music are positive.

Write a scene that extends upon the narrative of one of the following plays: The World of Extreme Happiness, A Streetcar Named Desire or A Midsummer Night's Dream

In her book Stranger and Friend: The Way of an Anthropologist, Hortense Powdermaker wrote that "The anthropologist is a human instrument studying other human beings". Consider this statement in the context of Love and Ho ...

Choose a current social issue or event in ONE of the following areas: religion, families, work, consumption. Read the chapter on what sociology does and the sociological imagination, and the relevant chapter on your topi ...

Analyse a media product using a sociological perspective

The research proposal is written in response to specific questions included in the paper.

From the selection of essays and excerpts from works relevant to the historical moment in which the plays on our course are situated... traversing various contemporary social, political and cultural debates... Choose ONE ...

'The period after 1945 did not witness the creation of a meaningful peace, but instead the creation of a new kind of war: the Cold War.' Discuss.

Proposes a modified Divine Command Theory in response to the 'Euthyphro Dilemma'.

This paper is an abstract for a research proposal on the use of Obsidian Hydration Bands as an alternative to radiocarbon dating. The research proposal itself is also included in AWA.

Write an essay analyzing ONE of the passages below the box (like forensic analysis...)

Write a 2500 word essay relating to gender equality and/or inequality through comparing two pre-industrial societies. Make sure your essay has a clear thesis statement.

Compare coverage of a single politics-related issue or event between... 2 reports in same medium. Describe how the political issue or event is communicated in each case, reflecting critically on differences between the t ...

Select an image from a gravestone ...and analyse its meaning. ...This project is intended to help you to find out about the symbolic meaning of visual images, using research tools, but also thinking independently about h ...

Select a text that you could use in teaching English as a second/foreign language. Analyse the text for elements making it cohesive and coherent. How and why might you use your analysis in teaching?

1. Choose any cultural text (obvious examples include advertisements, book covers, CD cases, or magazine pages). Provide an analysis of your chosen text using theory that has been covered in the course. You may wish to c ...

The symbolic meaning of visual images and how this is modified by context: origins and meaning of a gravestone image, and meaning in the context of whom the gravestone commemorated.

The Green Party's political advertising in the 2008 election. This advertising won an international award. To what extent was it effective in achieving the party goals and gaining public support?

A review of the literature around techniques used by archaeologists in understanding domestication, particularly in Polynesia.

Full proposal including introduction, literature review, participants/ methods, data analysis, resources.