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 05.12.2023

PLEASE NOTE: ESSAY S SHOULD BE SUBMITTED IN MSWORD OR PDF FORMAT

Workshop
COURSE ASSESSMENT
Essay Questions: (maximum 2000 words/6 sides of A4 paper):
Deadline: 5 December 2023. To be submitted by email to jitaly25@hotmail.com or through the Masaryk
University Information System
Students will be required to submit an essay in answer to one of the questions shown below. The
essay must be of a maximum of 2,000 words, be typewritten, fully properly referenced, and include a
full bibliography.

PLEASE NOTE: Essays that are more than 10 per cent above or below the word limit will be penalised
through the deduction of marks
(i)Identify some of the benefits and problems at the beginning and end of the European Union public
policy cycle. Do the benefits outweigh the problems?
(ii)Critically assess to what degree European Union public policy making can be characterised as
‘Europeanised’?
(iii)Do the principles of harmonisation, mutual recognition and convergence in the E.U Public
Policy process provide benefits or problems? Use examples from one or more E.U. Public Policy area
to illustrate and critically assess your examination of this question. (PLEASE NOTE: The Common
Agricultural Policy, Security and Defence Policy, and Economic policy concerning the EU budget are
not public policy areas. You should check carefully that your chosen policy area constitutes
‘public policy’, as if it does not you will not receive the required grade to pass the course.)

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                     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