Problem: Prepare a 300-word essay plan for the emTMA task. Part B makes up 50% of your mark.
Guidance:
Part of this task will help you plan how you will address the emTMA (final assignment). The emTMA task description can be found in the Assessment tab of the K102 Module website. Feedback from your tutor on TMA 05 will enable you to modify your plan for the emTMA before you begin writing.
Unlike the previous TMAs, Part B for TMA 05 is not an essay. It is a plan for the essay that you will submit for your emTMA. You were advised to complete a plan for TMA 03 and TMA 04, but for TMA 05, the plan is an assessed assignment, and so you must complete and submit it.
A plan is an outline of the main points you will cover in your emTMA. Making a detailed plan will help you organise your notes and ideas prior to writing the emTMA. Here's how you might approach your planning:
First, you should read the emTMA task, the case study and the guidance notes that accompany it.
Identify relevant module materials and jot down notes for the assignment. Note the source of your information for your reference list. Remember, for this emTMA essay, you need to consider more than one challenge faced by Alex and different perspectives on those issues.
Write a few sentences in your plan on each of the challenges and the support needs that you plan to address in your emTMA. Note down any examples from the case study that you might use to back up your points.
What conclusion do you think you might draw for your emTMA? Can you write a sentence on what you might conclude? Need Assignment Help?
Review your ideas - are they all relevant for the question? Do you think there is anything relevant you that have missed out?
There is no one 'right' way to do an emTMA essay plan, and you should do it in a way that works for you. Your plan could be a set of bullet points that show the flow of your argument, or a spider diagram
Alex
Alex is a 21-year-old man who recently left prison and is trying to get back to life in the outside world and be part of society. When he was 18, Alex was imprisoned for three years for a non-violent offence. Prior to this sentence, Alex had been involved with the youth offending team for crimes such as shoplifting, joy riding and graffiti. While he was in prison, Alex engaged with some educational and vocational programmes, but the services were limited and did not fully prepare him for the challenges of life when he was released. Alex's mental health has deteriorated over his three-year confinement, and he has become depressed and anxious.
Alex has very little contact with his mother. She was 17 years old when she had him and had been a 'looked-after child'. She had lost all contact with her family. Alex has one younger half-sister, but he does not know where she is as she was also taken into care. He has no other family that he is aware of. He was in and out of foster care as a child and teenager, as his mother had addiction difficulties. He was also sent to a secure group home as a teenager. He never knew his father, but he was told by his mother that he had died of a drug overdose before he was born.
On his release from prison, Alex was determined to rebuild his life, but he quickly encountered a range of challenges that made the transition to living in the outside world difficult. Lately, he feels that he has not been coping very well with his new circumstances and has been feeling very depressed.