Academic Essay Writing and Analysis of Two World Effective Articles: “The End Of History” and “Modernity, Incomplete Project”

Rahmanizade Dehkordi, H. R.

doi:10.22631/isih.2016.228

Document Type : Original Research Paper

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H. R. Rahmanizade Dehkordi

Assistant professor of social communications, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Allameh Tabatab’i University, Tehran, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22631/isih.2016.228

Abstract

One way to learn how to write an academic article is by analyzing some good and effective articles and taking lessons from them. In this way, I have chosen two articles from two different political positions, i.e. “The End of History” by Francis Fukuyama from the Right and “Modernity, Unfinished/Incomplete Project” by Jürgen Habermas from the Left. The prime purpose of this paper is to provide a translation and summary of Fukuyama’s article and the second objective is to analyze the text for extracting some theses, assumptions, research questions , etc. and finally is to compare these lessons with those that I have learned from analyzing the Habermas’s article (that I have published in a philosophical academic journal “Hekmat Va Falsafeh”). The author shows how these experiences can provide some criteria for writing academic articles and evaluating them. As we see in this paper, identifying a radical thesis, supporting it with convincing evidence and reasons and making a contribution to the body of knowledge, is the most characteristic feature of a good and academic article. Furthermore, we show that how two articles can be used as interdisciplinary methods for developing themes and ideas in a discourse.

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Volume 8, Issue 3 - Serial Number 31
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Academic Essay Writing and Analysis of Two World Effective Articles: “The End Of History” and “Modernity, Incomplete Project”

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Volume 8, Issue 3 - Serial Number 31July 2016Pages 153-178

Volume 8, Issue 3 - Serial Number 31
July 2016
Pages 153-178