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This site contains information to help you understand the marking process in humanities, creative arts and science essays.

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Saturday, August 30, 2008

Small and important reasons x

Creative Arts and Science: Positivity

In your Creative Writing story, you should maintain positivity, for H1. For H2A, you should describe events with a different outcome.

Creative Writing and Fine Arts: Object

Call a separate object (e.g. cake base or straws) the object you represent in your work. E.g. A cake base could be called a crown and straws could be called people.

Monday, August 4, 2008

Small and important reasons

When agreeing with the writer, think of a "small and important" inference between each of your argument's reasons and its conclusion. For example, a sleeping bag can be used as a biscuit tin.
When differing in opinion from the writer, think of a "small and important" inference between each of your argument's reasons and its conclusion. For example, a container may be used as a biscuit tin.

Mindmap

Mindmap 30 (500 word essay) or 50 (2000 word essay) reasons from different departments for your argument.

Ethics

When agreeing with the text, think of ethical advantages (e.g. how it could be related to eating food) of each of your reasons.
When differing in opinion from the text, for each reason, think of a way that the idea leads to a ethical choice (e.g. a way it could lead to entering into different circumstances), and for a higher mark, think of the solution to this.

History

Think of a historically related idea to your conclusion to possibly include in your introduction, e.g. Aristotelian tragedies should be placed in context with epics.

Economics

When agreeing with the text, think of economic advantages of each of your reasons.

Ideas

The following ideas should be represented in high quality work.

1. Two uses
a->b, a->c
Include two uses or ideas about an idea from your essay. For example, John (0.5m, 0.3m, 1.8m) ate an apple (0.6m, 0.6m, 0.6m) has the two uses John (see previous dimensions) planted the seed (0.005m, 0.0025m, 0.0025m) and John stepped over the line (0.5m, 0.01m, 0.0001m).

2. Future
a->b
Think about how one of your ideas relates to the future. For example, a student should learn to read a sign (0.3m, 0.6m, 2m) so he can step over a crack (0.5m, 0.01m, 0.005m).

3. Two types
a->b, c->b
Think about how two objects are co-ordinated in relation to each other. For example, Luke ate the wheat biscuit (0.1m, 0.05m, 0.01m), which was softened by milk, which was constituted by the wheat biscuit (0.1m, 0.05m, 0.01m) and the glass of milk (0.05m, 0.05m, 0.15m).