AWA: Academic Writing at Auckland

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

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.

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 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 ...

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 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.

An argument against extending privatisation to incarceration.

Describe and discuss Aristotle's views on the relationship between private property and good government. How are these views related to his critique of Plato?

Drawing on the theoretical literature on political leadership, present a typology that best encompasses the contrasting leadership styles of three modern New Zealand prime ministers. Taking into account New Zealand's ...

Review this book: Biermann, Frank (Ed.), Siebenhüner, Bernd (Ed.), & Schreyögg, Anna (Ed.). (2009). International Organizations in Global Environmental Governance. New York, USA: Routledge.

 

Finland's strategy for reducing incarceration rates: Can it help reduce New Zealand's high imprisonment rates?

Applies Claire Robinson's theory of market orientation in political advertisements to Barack Obama's campaign advertisements for the 2012 presidential election.

What are the factors in the historically recent rise in the over- representation of Maori in Prisons today?

Generate data on ceramic variation related to ceramic function and technology. The ceramics you will analyse were excavated from Nacula Island (site Y1-15, locally named Natia) in north-western Fiji.