Term 1: Paper One Assignment (Crafting Introductions and body paragraphs) 2014

*Credit will not be given if candidates merely lift evidence from content package without showing Evaluation.

Name: Class:

Task: Craft an Introduction paragraph and ONE body paragraph in response to the question below

(refer to the suggested essay outline)*.

Deadline: Wednsaday, 12 March 5pm

“Academic excellence is everything.” Discuss with reference to formal education in your society.

Question Analysis:

Subject: Priorities of formal education/ Value of academic excellence

Key Terms: ‘Academic excellence’:_________________________________________________

‘Is everthing’:________________________________________________________

‘Formal education’:____________________________________________________

Assumption (s):That students’ academic achievements are the only concern of schools____________

_____________________________________________________________________

Contention: Whether or not schools are concerned only with their students’ academic achievements

and nothing else. (Challenge the Assumption)

Context: Singapore society

Guiding questions:

Why are paper qualifications so highly-valued in Singapore?

Evidence to show our education system’s obsession with paper qualifications?

What are the other aims of formal education?

What measures/ policies have been undertaken by MOE to emphasize these other aims?

Does a more diverse educational landscape imply that academic achievements are no longer

‘everything’?

Term 1: Paper One Assignment (Crafting Introductions and body paragraphs) 2014

*Credit will not be given if candidates merely lift evidence from content package without showing Evaluation.

“Academic excellence is everything.” Discuss with reference to formal education in your society.

Suggested Essay Outline:

Introduction

• Why it is partially true that formal education places a high premium on academic excellence.

Body paragraph #1

•Why academic excellence is NOT everything: Cite ONE Point

•eg. School's implementation of CCE?Body paragraph #2

•Why academic excellence is NOT everything: Cite ONE Point

• eg. Diverse ededucation landscape - Schools catering to different talents (SOTA, Northlght, Sports School)?

Body Paragraph #3

•Why academic excellence is NOT everything: Cite ONE Point

•eg .Schools realize that employers are looking out for not solely paper qualitifications but for other facots as well.

Body Paragraph #4

Conclusion