Free coursework assesses the ability of a student to design their own focused area of study and sustain the interest, investigation, crafting, refinement and review process over an extended period of time. Free coursework is well suited to an investigation requiring the development or either a qualitative or quantitative research methodology, and it is normally accompanied by the asset of a supervising mentor or tutor, who guides the student through the process, so that they are more quickly developing the skills, content, values and attitudes consonant with the particular intellectual discipline in question.
Coursework is utilised in many disciplines of study, including psychology, law, literature, sociology and more. One of the benefits of free coursework is that the additional time permits not only a closer mentor mentee relationship to develop, but the learner has time to conduct a thorough review of existing literature, which pertains to the field of investigation in general terms, and the specific research question to be explored in particular. The reviewer can in the course of their free coursework, develop awareness and an appreciation for contemporary academics within their field of interest, as well as the historical development of the field of study, including its nuances and eccentricities.
Free coursework provides the learning context for a student to develop an academic writing style pertinent to the given discipline. This is done from observation, while conducting the literature review, as well as through the process of drafting and feedback, received from the learner's facilitator or supervisor. Free coursework always enables the development and appreciation for the ethical issues relevant to academic research. Matters such as the appropriate acknowledgement of the originality of work can be practically addressed, as well as learning to respectfully and fully acknowledge one's reliance upon the work of earlier researchers.
What social service is provided by a sewage treatment plant? What are the benefits of treating waste water? Read the rest of this essay »
Tags: engineering, environment, government, sustainable development
Category: Environmental Studies Essays |
‘The Forge’ is a sonnet with a clear division into an octave (the first eight lines) and a sestet (the final six lines). While the octave, apart from its initial reference to the narrator, focuses solely on the inanimate objects and occurrences inside and outside the forge, the sestet describes the blacksmith himself, and what he does. Read the rest of this essay »
Tags: poem, poetic activity, Seamus Heaney, sonnet, The Forge
Category: English Literature Essays |
Throughout The Tempest feelings of envy and desire are closely related to issues of power and ambition. Whether striving to regain a rightful title or planning to usurp another by treacherous means, characters within the play seem entirely driven by their lust for supremacy. Read the rest of this essay »
Tags: desire, envy, Prospero, Shakespeare, The Tempest
Category: English Literature Essays |
Virginia Woolf’s novel To the Lighthouse (1990) is structured in three parts and each, to an extent, displays a different use of time. In this essay I would like to look at each of these and discuss the ways that the author represents not only the movement and affects of temporality but also how its is perceived and shapes people’s consciousnesses. Read the rest of this essay »
Tags: language, Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Category: English Literature Essays |
Organic foods are now becoming more and more popular in most developed and developing countries. Though the reasons for this growth in popularity are quite similar, still there are differences in the ways organic food is promoted and sold in different countries. Read the rest of this essay »
Tags: Beijing, China, consumers, developing countries, distribution, export, import, organic food, UK
Category: Business Essays |
Investment banks evolved as a result of lucrative merchant centers located in the north of Italy, Belgium as well as Holland from the 17th through 19th centuries. During that period Europe’s most influential merchant families moved to the United Kingdom as it was becoming the merchant and banking center of the region. Read the rest of this essay »
Tags: bonds, capital, commercial banks, corporate finance, corporations, investments, mutual funds
Category: Business Essays |
In Tracey Warr’s essay, ‘Image as Icon: Recognising the Enigma’, she identifies and discusses four discourses of performance photography–the document, the icon, the simulacrum and the live act–and what is at stake in these discourses is the ‘truth’. Read the rest of this essay »
Tags: enigma, images, Jackson Pollock, photography, the photograph
Category: Art Essays |
Starry Night is perhaps Van Gogh’s most popular painting. He completed the painting in June 1889, while undergoing treatment at the St. Remy de Provence mental asylum, a little over a year before his untimely and tragic suicide at the age of 37. Read the rest of this essay »
Tags: artists, God, manic depression, painting, schizophrenia, Starry Night, Van Gogh
Category: Art Essays |