RIGHT I NEED HELP TO WRITE A PIECE OF COURSEWORK ON STALIN AND LENIN PLEASE

[FAWKEOFF]

So i have to do a piece of coursework writing about their similarities and differances in their leaderships.....help is needed as i am all befuddled

dh might be able to help you
He did Russian History

ive looked on them but cant seem to pull the info i want out of them....reading for hours and getting one paragraph is pretty pants.

Can you not find one of those cheat websites that has a copy of essays, read it and then rewrite it?
IMO that's not cheating, as long as you rewrite it and learn what it says in the original essay.

Introduction, scene setting, general historical factoids

Similarities in leaderdhip style

Reasons for above

Differences in leadership style

Reasons for above

Summary and Conclusion

role of secret police? use of intelligence by intelligence services - eg. Stalin at beginning of WW2 nd operation of barbarossa.

What are you confused about? Is this GCSE or A level? Did both history GCSE and A level so might be able to help if I can remember that far back!! Maybe post the essay title itself as that can make a big difference? To be honest though this is a great essay subject as there are loads of things to write about and tons of info out there!

Theres an example here

sheeesh, how can we teachers convince the kids its cheating to get others to help with their coursework, when you parents are doing it too!!! GO TO THE LIBRARY!!

MO, surely as long as FAWKEOFF 'gets it' at the end and has written a good essay covering all points it doesn't matter how she gets there?

unlike children i dont have time to go to the bloody library lol...it is a gcse piece of coursework, i have wrote about them both turning to the marxist view at early ages and dedicated themselves for the fight of the revolutionary cause, i have used that as a similarity

thanks victorian squalor some useful info on there....before anyone else starts i am not a plagiarist i just need a bit of help

I had to do it with Hitler and Mussolini and iirc to start off I just listed what stood out about each of them, their political aims/childhood/education/family life/successes/failures etc then looked to see where there were any ties.

FAWKEOFF, reading someone elses essay to get it in your mind is not plagiarism, it's just the same as reading books IMO, as long as you find your info from it and understand and write it yourself then you've done as required, when I was at college our tutors used to encourage us to look up other peoples essays and read our friends if we didn't quite have the right ideas.

VS and FO Sorry to be the little boy shouting 'but he's got no clothes on..." but 'reading someone elses essays its not the same as reading books!

Reading books is looking at facts and what happened. Comparing and contrasting what you read is the bit you put in. The added value as it were. If you look at how other people did that you are not coming up with any original thought, just copying other peoples thoughts. You're not learning how to think, just to cherry pick! That's not what GCSE is about.

MO i must say that in other subjects i am taking at the moment most teachers have shown a class pieces of coursework...we have been given copies to keep actually, so i suppose it depends what a teacher individually feels right, and i am just glad you aren't teaching me

When I did Sociology a good friend of mine found it really hard to understand the different concepts and I would work with her on it, we spoke to our tutor about it because we weren't sure how much help I could give her and our tutor said himself that as long as she got there in the end and could rephrase and discuss what the essay said and meant after she had handed it in then that was enough for him.

FO there are exam board rules that teachers must abide by when teaching coursework..seriously, showing the class a piece of someone elses work is disobeying those rules..but some teachers do cos it makes life easier for them and gets better results. This makes us 'honest' ones seem like party poopers!

..so, yes, is a good job I'm not your teacher, else you'd be doing lines by now

we insist that all GCSE course work is done in class to avoid this sort of issue.

Just start by getting something down on paper.

You can tweek it later.

Don't read another persons essay, your teacher will spot it isn't your style

thanks for the advice MO but you are misentepreting me having a bit of a mind jog and using someone elses work as my own....i would only be cheating myself if i did that and i am not about to waste all the hard work i have done to get this far this year

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Olivia you're probably best to start your own thread in chat or something then more peopel would see it.

FO I was just referring to your comment "... most teachers have shown a class pieces of coursework"..if you are learning at a college then I can imagine they get away with it more easily...sigh.

yes the probably do, but in my defense MO i am doin a gcse course that children you teach have 2 years to prepare for....i have 7 months...so maybe it is only fair that we get a little extra help???? i dont want to start a debate on this thread, that is not why it was started, i understand that you disagree....lets just leave it at that

Oh God invented the internet so that people didn't have to go to libraries.

I don't see what's cheating about reading other essays, reading a book is just as much reading someone else's take on something. Read all the different versions of Jane Austen's biography and you'd hardly know it's the same woman.

I'd add to MB's outline, the effects of each style of leadership on Russia and the rest of the USSR and its relationship with the capitalist world.