Slippery Nature of Sociological Concepts
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Slippery Nature of Sociological Concepts
Question the question This is the essential prerequisite to answering the question. Essays at this level are intended to make you deliberate, interpret, analyze and criticize. They are not a form of comprehension test, which merely ask you to show you have read and digested all the relevant material. What is required is for you to select points from your reading and research which are of particular relevance to the set topic and to argue a case around these points.
Consequently, a great deal rests on your interpretation of the question and you should always attend closely to its wording to find out what is implied. This is not to say that there will normally be one and only one pertinent interpretation; more often than not the slippery nature of sociological concepts and varied business practices / situations will prompt alternative strategies for an answer. Hence having identified the broad territory in which you will work, it is a good idea to make every use of this scope for interpretation of the question. In the introductory paragraphs of your essay you should justify the particular approach you are taking, perhaps even challenging some of the assumptions implied in certain questions.
Another useful way of examining the question is to break it down into smaller issues so as to bring out the possible conceptual distinctions available in an answer. To take rather stock-in-trade introductory question suppose you were asked to what extent is marketing orientation important to the hotel and catering industries. This divides down into a range of sub-questions; what is marketing orientation; the nature of products and services; the nature of markets; the problems which marketing orientation can overcome, the weakness in adopting some supposed marketing formulae and so on. The nature of markets could be taken from a view rooted in technology, organizational implications, economics, etc. Each of these issues might lead you on to a range of finer conceptual distinctions, a choice of different empirical evidence and selection between the different theoretical perspectives open to analysis. You cannot of course be expected to deal with all these points in one essay – hence the importance of the early justification of a guiding theme for your answer.
Anticipate the answer
This brings us to another important stage of preparation – namely planning the answer. A widespread error in essay preparation is the artificial separation of the process of collecting the material from the planning and writing of the essay. Many students do not embark on the planning and writing of the essay until they have collected all or most of their information in the hope that a framework for an answer will somehow leap out and hit them from their mass of notes or their memory retention. Producing some form of outline structure of your answer is the essential preliminary to essay preparation. You should sketch out a rough plan perhaps in the form of sub-headings and key words, identifying the material you intend to cover. These sections might be modified or scrapped as you go along but will guarantee much more purposeful reading, and can be used to gain credit in examination situations.
If you follow this approach it should assist in taking your reading beyond the standard texts and commentaries. Your reading lists will identify the main books and articles that will help you in an essay and judicious use of their indexes and bibliographies will extend the material which will be useful for your own line of inquiry.
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Write for your audience
A useful trick in essay writing is to write for your audience. “Obvious!” you cry, but is it.
A few minutes spent thinking during the essay planning stage can help direct your writing towards the expected standard and language of the reader. Especially useful when the reader is the examiner.
So think, who am I writing this for, what do they expect, how should it be written, how do they write, what are their criteria for essay writing, and what is their specialist field. A simple process but highly effective.
Follow a format
It would be an error to try to dictate your writing style but it is not a bad idea to employ the conventional “sign posts” which help the reader through an essay. Think about including the following: an introduction which states clearly and succinctly what the essay aims to communicate; the main body of the essay in which arguments are developed, evidence is marshaled, evaluations are made; a conclusion in which the main argument may be summarized; and finally, a list of references actually consulted in preparing the essay. If the essay is a long one it is also a good idea to use sub-headings to mark divisions in the main body of the essay. Particularly in early years of courses it is useful to define exactly what is meant by terms which may have a specialized meaning in the context of the hotel and catering industry and within an academic discipline
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