Workshop COURSE ASSESSMENT Essay: Students should write an essay of a maximum of 2000 words (6 sides of A4 paper) in answer to ONE of the questions shown below. Essays should be properly and fully referenced, and include a full bibliography. They should be word-processed. PLEASE NOTE: Essays that are more than 10 per cent above or below the word limit will be penalised through the deduction of marks, as will essays that are not properly or fully referenced or do not include a full bibliography. (In text references count towards the word limit. Your list of references and sources used at the end of your essay does not count towards the word limit.) ESSAYS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED TO JOHN WILTON BY EMAIL TO jitaly25@hotmail.com OR THROUGH THE MASARYK UNIVERSITY INFORMATION SYSTEM BY 30.04.2021. PLEASE NOTE: ESSAY S SHOULD BE SUBMITTED IN MSWORD OR PDF FORMAT [USEMAP] Workshop COURSE ASSESSMENT Essay Questions: 1.Critically assess whether European Union social policy can be characterised as Europeanised. Provide evidence and examples drawn from E.U. social policy areas to support your assessment. 2. 2. Evaluate to what extent we can use models and types of European welfare states in order to identify the impact of the European Union in welfare and social policy provision within those states. [USEMAP] Structure of Essay Answers Analyse the question – ‘content words’, ‘process words’ Structure of your essay/answer – in what order, and how will you address the question (brief in introduction) Theories and Arguments – theories, models and arguments you will employ to analyse, critically assess, evaluate, compare and contrast Content and evidence – examples, in terms of information or details you use in order to sustain or challenge the various theories and arguments you have employed in analysis of the question Conclusion – your summary of the various points and arguments/theories of explanation, and your critical evaluation/assessment/comparison of them based on that [USEMAP] Workshop COURSE ASSESSMENT Essay Questions: 1.Critically assess whether European Union social policy can be characterised as Europeanised. Provide evidence and examples drawn from E.U. social policy areas to support your assessment. 2. 2. Evaluate to what extent we can use models and types of European welfare states in order to identify the impact of the European Union in welfare and social policy provision within those states. [USEMAP]