CRIM11002 Academic Essay Instructions

CRIM11002 Academic Essay Instructions

Task

• You must discuss one of three statements provided below (Note: You can choose the same one as your Assessment 1 Essay Plan or change You need to either agree or disagree with the statement you choose).
  
  
  
  1. Harsher penalties are necessary to prevent youth
  
  
  
  

2. Police should take a more active style of policing to prevent

3. There are inequalities in the sentencing decision in the Australian criminal justice system.

• Make it clear what position you are taking whether you agree or disagree with the one statement you choose.

• Consider any feedback you received for your Assessment 1 Essay Feedback is there to help you improve and correct any errors.

• Write a 1500-word response to your chosen statement (+/- 10%).

Weighting

• 40%

AI tool usage

Level 2: You may use AI for planning, idea development, and research. Your final submission should show how you have developed and refined these ideas.

Any misuse or lack of disclosure regarding the use of AI tools will be considered a breach of academic integrity.

General Information

• Remember that this is an individual assessment - you cannot work together in groups for your response, nor may you email the instructor with a draft to

• You may email the instructor if you do not know what a question means or what a specific word means, but they will not be able to tell you how to approach the

• Responses are to be in essay That is, they are to have a brief introduction, be written in paragraphs addressing each element of the question and have a brief conclusion. (In relation to the introduction and conclusion brief means approximately 3-4 sentences).

• You should write in a complete DO NOT use bullet points.

• Use 5 or double line spacing. This helps provide room for feedback.

• Referencing is to be strictly APA

• Only include authoritative references that have an author (i.e., dictionary websites and Wikipedia are not acceptable).

• You Academic Essay should have a title page and a separate page at the end for your reference list.

• The title page and the reference list are not included in the word

• In-text citations and headings are included in the word

• Lecture notes are NOT to be used as part of the reference You will need to locate the original author.

• Your academic essay MUST be in one document, the first page of which is to be a title page containing: your name and student ID, the assessment task title (i.e., Academic Essay), the units name and unit code, the due date, and word count.

• Submit as Word or PDF, not other file extensions (e.g., Pages).