Help with GOVT1101 (Australian Politics) (2 Viewers)

[Jazz1234]

I dont get the first assignment (Tutorial excercise 1), it says "choose one of the essay questions (see section 12 below)". Do we choose one from list 1 and the other from list 2?

 

[brownie44]

Yes, you choose one from list one (which is a feature of the political system eg parliament) and the other from list two (which are policy issues eg indigenous Australians) and then find sources related to your question.

 

[Jazz1234]

Thanks for your reply Brownie44,

I have another question (to anyone), Once i have found the 6 items, Do i just read one reference and write a 600 word answer to the 4 question?

OR

Do i write a 600 word answer to all the 6 item?

Because im getting mixed up with part 4 and 5.

Thanks.

 

[kayvon]

just one!

but apparently you should write one sentence within that 600 words about the other 5 references.

 

[Jazz1234]

Ok Thanks for your reply.

 

[buttercreampie]

Part iv of the questions which we were meant to answer in regards to just one reference is basically telling us to mention the other references we have found anyways.

Is anyone having trouble finding an edited book?? I've found sources for everything except an edited book!

 

[Alex499]

Yeah I have all these books except I don't really know what the difference between an edited and a non-edited book is...

I have a multi-authored book that I'm thinking I'll just shove under non-edited and hope for the best.

 

[Kujah]

Non-edited: First Edition of a book.

Edited: Usually books that have been edited a few times, resulting in a second or third edition.

 

[Silver Persian]

Non-edited: First Edition of a book.

Edited: Usually books that have been edited a few times, resulting in a second or third edition.

Erm. I think they probably mean a book that that consists of a series of chapters written by different authors.

 

[Kujah]

Are you sure? Because the items required are:
- a chapter from an edited book
- a chapter from a sole or multiple-authored book (not an edited book).

 

[Silver Persian]

Oh, um.

Not sure then

Maybe you should send your tutor an email just to check. I'd find it a bit strange if they specifically wanted you to looked at a second or third edition of a book...But the instructions they gave are unclear.

/comment withdrawn

 

[buttercreampie]

My tutor said that an edited book would be one where there was an editor and then the chapters are written by several different authors.

 

[Kujah]

My tutor said that an edited book would be one where there was an editor and then the chapters are written by several different authors.

Thanks for the clarification! Previous comments withdrawn.

 

[Silver Persian]

Are you sure? Because the items required are:
- a chapter from an edited book
- a chapter from a sole or multiple-authored book (not an edited book).

Ah, yes. Reading this again, the second one is referring to a book may be antirely written by more than one author, as opposed to books in which a series of essays by different authors are published.

/earlier comment reaffirmed.

 

[Taskan]

I'm having trouble finding academic journals to draw from, are they all together in the library or something?

 

[buttercreampie]

Have you tried searching in e-journals on the library homepage?

 

[Silver Persian]

What buttercreampie said.

Go to this webpage and look through some of the government databases for journal articles

Government &amp International Relations databases, University of Sydney Library

 

[Alex499]

Yeah i was going to email my tutor but she seems like a complete bitch. She was like "don't email me unless you absolutely have to and if you do I'm not going to reply for a few days, I have a life you know". I was wtf ok thanks for that

So for my edited book would i be ok doing a first edition book where each chapter is written by a different author?

What I found really irritating about this assignment is that I left everything til last minute (I went to the library yesterday to start) and all the books have been borrowed out. I can read a few of them online or on google books but it's still really annoying.

 

[Taskan]

thanks guys, that should be a real help.

And Alex499, maybe we have the same tutor, cos that sounds exactly like what mine said in our first tute

 

[Alex499]

Tuesdays' at 12 somewhere in merewether. But I changed it today because I changed subjects and it clashed so now I have Tuesday's at 11. I have no idea who I have haha