AWA: Academic Writing at Auckland

Social marketing campaigns: how to make them culturally appropriate/ how they can reach ethnic minorities.

Select a text that you could use in teaching English as a second/foreign language. Analyse the text for elements making it cohesive and coherent. How and why might you use your analysis in teaching?

Choose a topic in chemical ecology of insects and write a review.

This 10,000 word dissertation research project required students to undertake and produce independent work using a topic and theories of their own choosing.

What is food security? What makes global food insecurity and how can it be overcome?

Critically discuss the effectiveness of New Zealand's heritage protection legislation.

This Opinion will set out to explore Fentiman's views: it will first briefly summarise the core of his argument that EU private international law rules support European integration over conflicts resolution, then critica ...

What exactly are FTAs and what are their political and economic attractions and liabilities from the NZ government's point of view?

Discuss the evolution of the concept of armed humanitarian intervention in international relations and international law writings of the past couple of decades, then assess a human rights crisis of your choice as to whet ...

Question: How have gymnosperms fared in the face of their 'superior' angiosperm competitors? With this assignment, the lecturer was aiming to "promote discussion of a topical area rather than offer an exhaustive ...

The purpose of the species risk assessment is to:
• compile all known information about the species relevant to its status as a potential invasive species in New Zealand;
• make a judgment (with ...

Choose one of the vocabulary research articles in the issue and write an evaluation of it, following the guidelines below: Why is the article interesting to you? How does it relate to your experience as a language learn ...

Review & recommend management options for a newly established or pre-border species:

Discussion of two articles by Kramp and Pavlenko.

This paper will explore and attempt to explain China and Japan's reluctance to engage with the International Court of Justice.

Should organic farming practices be commonplace in New Zealand and used as a means to reduce biodiversity loss? What are some of the issues preventing this from happening?

The tomato industry recently applied to EPA to import an exotic mirid (Macrolophus pygmaeus) as a biocontrol agent. Write a submission supporting or opposing this introduction as an invasion biologist.
The focus o ...

Write a research proposal for the development of a transgenic plant that could be used to enhance biofuel production.

Critically discuss key heritage conservation principles and the effect these have on a retrofit project.

Provides overview of several authors' ideas on the topic.