must present an argumentative question in regards to the content
Examine assembly-government relationship in Kuwait.
ü Format
Your essay must be word processed and contain the following information:
A title page with (1) your name, (2) the question and (3) date of submission.
Page numbers;
Footnotes or endnotes; and
A bibliography at the end
ü Sources
You may use no less than 4 academic sources including academic books and journals (aim not to use your required readings!). It is important that you look for reference works on your own, or with the help of the library staff, so that you can develop the important skill of independent search for literature.
ü How to reference a book in the bibliography
Crystal, Jill. (1992), Kuwait : the transformation of an oil state, Westview Press, Boulder, 1992.
ü How to reference a journal article in the bibliography
Ghabra, Shafeeq. “Kuwait and the Dynamics of Socio-economic Change”, Middle East
Journal, 1997, Vol.15, No.3, pp.358-72.
ü Internet Sources
If the page you have used has an author and a title, you can include it as normal in the alphabetical list of sources (e.g. Sands, James, ‘Kafka and the Surrealists’ at: http://www.pitt.edu/german/sands/kafka.htm, accessed 9 May 2013). If the page has no clear author, the reference should appear at the end of the alphabetical list.
ü Internet plagiarism (copying from web sources without proper referencing) carries penalties and is dealt with in exactly the same way as plagiarism from printed sources. Although cut-and-paste facilities make it tempting to copy material from web pages, search engines and turnit.com make Internet plagiarism easy to detect.
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Tips on refrecing
When do you need to give a reference?
You must give the reference whenever you draw on a source of information, this would include:
sources of a particular argument, viewpoint or theory
for specific information, such as statistics, examples or case studies
for direct quotations (the author’s exact words)
for texts and electronic information which you paraphrased rather than quoted.
Useful phrases to introduce references within your essay:
As X point out, …
According to X, …
To quote from X, “….”
X states /suggests that…
X shows that…
In an article entitled Name of Text, X makes the point that…
In Name of Source, X wrote that…
Writing in 1998, X argued that…
Using Quotations:
Quotations should be:
used only if the words really worth quoting
brief-a few words or at most a few lines (avoid long quotations)
How to Reference?
When you have used , quoted or paraphrased a source, acknowledge it (otherwise this is called plagiarism!). Either within the sentence or at the end of the sentence, write in brackets the author’s name, date of publication and page numbers. Full details of the source should be written out in the bibliography.
How to Write a Bibliography?
book: note you don’t give the page numbers (this you do when referencing within the essay!)
Crystal, Jill. (1992), Kuwait : the transformation of an oil state, Westview Press, Boulder, 1992.
Journal: not for a journal article you give the page numbers for the whole article
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Recommended Books
The following books are classics on the Government and Politics of Kuwait; you are strongly advised to consult them and are placed on short reserve at the Library.
Books in English
Crystal, Jill. (1995), Oil and politics in the Gulf : rulers and merchants in Kuwait and Qatar
Crystal, Jill. (1992), Kuwait : the transformation of an oil state
Al-Dekhayel, Abdulkarim. (2000), Kuwait : oil, state and political legitimation
Al-Ibrahim, Hasan. (1982) Kuwait and the Gulf : small states and the international system
Al-Ibrahim, Hasan. (1975), Kuwait : a political study
Khalaf, Abdulhadi. .Constitutional reform and political participation in the Gulf
Al-Sabah, Meshal. (2013), Gender and politics in Kuwait : women and political participation in the Gulf
Tetreault, Mary Ann. (2000), Stories of democracy : politics and society in contemporary Kuwait
Tetreault, Mary Ann. (2011), Political change in the Arab Gulf States : stuck in transition
Tetreault, Mary Ann. (1995), Gender, Citizenship and Nationalism in Kuwait
Tetreault, Mary Ann. (1995), Modernization and Its Discontents: State and Gender in Kuwait
Tetreault, Mary Ann. (1991) Autonomy, Necessity, and the Small State: Ruling Kuwait in the Twentieth Century
Journals
Alnajjar, Ghanim The Challenges Facing Kuwaiti Democracy
Baaklini, Abdo I. Legislatures in the Gulf Area: The Experience of Kuwait, 1961-1976
Crystal, Jill. Coalitions in Oil Monarchies: Kuwait and Qatar
Ghabra, Shafeeq. Kuwait and the Dynamics of Socio-Economic Change
Moubarak, Walid. The Kuwait Fund in the Context of Arab and Third World Politics
Salih, Kamal Osman. Kuwait Primary (Tribal) Elections 1975–2008: An Evaluative Study
Salih, Kamal Osman. Kuwait: Political Consequences of Modernization, 1750-1986
Tetreault, Mary Ann. Autonomy, Necessity, and the Small State: Ruling Kuwait in the Twentieth Century
Yetiv, Steve. Kuwait’s Democratic Experiment in Its Broader International Context
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