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John Locke写作竞赛详解!竞赛安排/奖项设置/备赛建议

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John Locke约翰·洛克论文竞赛是由牛津大学、普林斯顿大学的顶级学者发起并且评审的国际论文竞赛,对于未来要走人文社科方向的同学来说,入围John Locke论文比赛,就等于学术研究和思维逻辑能力都得到了官方认可!让我们一起来看看吧!

 

John Locke论文竞赛

 

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John Locke写作竞赛是由位于牛津的独立教育组织John Locke Institute与英国牛津大学、美国普林斯顿大学等优质院校教授合作组织的学术项目,其评审全部来自英国牛津大学,每年举办一次。选题涵盖了哲学、政治、经济、历史、心理学、神学、法律七个学科,每个学科设置不同的问题,从极富趣味性和挑战力的写作题目出发,旨在培养参赛者的议论文写作能力,考察参赛者对于不同学科领域独立深刻的见解、广博的认知、清晰的说理能力、批判性地分析思维能力和说服力。

 

因其学科范围广、选题深刻有趣,已成为全世界非常受欢迎和认可的高中生英文论文竞赛之一。

 

参赛对象

高年级组:提交论文时年满18岁及以下

低年级组:提交论文时年满14岁及以下

 

比赛方式

官网一般会在2月份公布7个主题的题目。学生根据自己的兴趣选择一个问题写一篇论文,在截止日期前(一般是6月底)提交。

 

每篇文章只能在所选主题类别中回答一个问题,可以提交多篇文章,但不得超过2000字(不包括图表、数据表、脚注、参考书目或作者声明)。

 

奖项设置

Grand Prize (终极奖):

1人,获得John Locke学院10,000美元的荣誉奖学金,用于参加学院一个或多个暑期学校或gap year课程。

 

各学科领域:

Winner、Second Prize、Third Prize各1人:获得2000美元奖学金,用于覆盖John Locke学院任何课程的费用。

 

High Commendations:

除去以上获奖的其他优秀文章,最佳论文的作者们将获得表彰并入围奖品获得者的列表中。入围的作者们还将被邀请到牛津参加9月份的学术会议和颁奖晚宴。

 

历年入围情况

年份

投稿数

入围数

2022

6805

1300

2021

4000

915

2020

2740

710

 

John Locke论文竞赛是人文社科方向的同学必参加的比赛之一,主要有以下2个原因:

 

助力名校申请

John Locke约翰·洛克论文竞赛的评审都来自牛津大学,每年的话题都和时事息息相关,可以说是大学录取的风向标。每年都吸引全球数千名擅长思考和写作的中学生参加。往年参赛的学生录取院校包括普林斯顿、哈佛、耶鲁、斯坦福、芝加哥、伯克利、牛津、剑桥等世界名校。

 

提升学术写作能力

对于人文社科方向的同学来说,学术写作的能力是必不可少的。参加John Locke论文竞赛,不仅是为了获得奖项,也可以在备赛的过程中提升自己的写作能力、逻辑思维。为今后的大学生活做好准备。

 

如何备赛John Locke论文比赛

 

John Locke论文竞赛对参赛者的学术要求很高,同学们至少要具备以下能力:

 

了解哲学,政治,经济,历史,心理学,神学或法律等学科领域的基本知识结构。

掌握议论文的基本写作格式和技巧。

在文章中展现独立的思想,清晰的逻辑和辩证的分析方式。

 

不同于普通的英文写作,John Locke论文写作有着严格的审核要求。想要写出一篇符合参赛要求的学术论文,至少要经过以下几个步骤:

 

熟悉学术论文写作格式

选取同学们感兴趣的话题

进行相关领域的广泛阅读

储备所需要的相关话题的专业知识

开始破题、梳理大纲

进一步资料搜索

仔细斟酌,修改大纲

着手写作段落细节

反复修改、校对全文

 

在这里列出了2023年John Locke官方公布的7大主题的问题,同学们可以作为参考。

 

2023七大主题题目

 

 Philosophy 

 

Q1. A team of scientists wants to discover how many genders there are. How should they proceed?

 

Q2. In what sense are you the same person today that you were when you were ten?

 

Q3. Is tax theft? 

 

 Politics 

 

Q1. Do the results of elections express the will of the people?

 

Q2. If China becomes the leading superpower, what would that mean for the people who live there? What would it mean for everyone else?

 

Q3. What might account for the different levels of political corruption in your own country and your country's nearest neighbour?

 

 Economics 

 

Q1. A government funds its own expenditure by taxing its population. Suppose, instead, it relied solely on money newly created by the central bank? What would be the advantages and/or disadvantages?   

 

Q2. In his thought experiment, the Iowa Car Crop, David Friedman tries to show that growing wheat is, in an important sense, just another 'technology' we can use for manufacturing cars, and in some circumstances a much more efficient one.

If international trade is thus a way of using less valuable inputs to produce more valuable outputs, why would governments impose trade barriers such as tariffs and quotas, thereby forcing producers to be more wasteful and less efficient?

 

Q3. What would happen if we banned billionaires?

 

 History 

 

Q1. How much richer or poorer are the British today than they would have been without the effects of British colonialism? 

 

Q2. Which has a bigger effect on history: the plans of the powerful or their mistakes?

 

Q3. Which characteristics distinguish successful movements for social change from unsuccessful ones?

 

 Psychology 

 

Q1. Can happiness be measured?

 

Q2. In surveys conducted in the United States, significantly more than half the respondents reported that they believed themselves to be more attractive than the median person in their country. How might we account for this?

 

Q3. Are beliefs voluntary?

 

 Theology 

 

Q1. What distinguishes a small religion from a large cult?

 

Q2. If you cannot persuade your intelligent, sympathetic friends to embrace your religious belief system, do you have enough reason to believe what you believe? 

 

Q3. What was God doing before He created the cosmos?

 

 Law 

 

Q1. Would justice be better served in the United States if more Supreme Court judges were women? 

 

Q2. Suppose that you were contemplating, in violation of the rules of this competition, submitting an essay written for you by artificial intelligence. What would be the difference between such an act and ordinary attempted theft?

 

Q3. Are there too many laws?

 

JUNIOR prize

Q1. Is safety more important than fun?

 

Q2. If you had $10 billion to spend on making the world better, how would you spend it?

 

Q3. What, if anything, do your parents owe you?

 

Q4. What is something important, about which nearly everybody is wrong?

 

Q5. Why is John Locke sometimes called the father of liberalism?

 

 

 

 

 

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备赛建议:

1️⃣从论证格式上来看,John Locke论文比赛的要求和国际学校的Argumentative Essay更相似。建议同学们精读历年的获奖论文,学习并拆解它们的结构,

 

2️⃣在动笔前,同学们可能需要花1-2个月的时间去做知识储备的工作,累计在相关领域内的理论、知名学者的著作和观点,并且分析他们不同点在哪里,每一个主要的核心观点里面再去细分更多分论点。

 

3️⃣在写作时,同学们要敢于清晰的表达自己的观点。明确作者的写作目的,预设对读者的影响,不要拐弯抹角和跑题。

 

4️⃣在提交时,一定要按照官网规定的日期节点和标准格式提交,文件名一律按照Alexander-Popham-Psychology-2.pdf的格式。

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