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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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Thursday, July 31, 2008

Creative Writing: Are you interested in your work about lectures?

Creative Writing: Are you interested in your work about lectures?
Have you thought of your own idea based on something said in each lecture?

Creative Writing: Repetition

Have you used repetition in your poem?

Creative Writing: One Section

In Creative Writing, the piece of work should have one section with five parts only.  In Fine Arts, Languages, Science and Music, one should think of one section with five parts.

Creative Writing: Multilevelledness

Is there an object with five levels (each explicitly represented by a word) in the work?

Nouns, verbs etc.

One should be ask oneself:
• Are you interested in the parts of speech? (Noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, article.)

Humanities essay organisation

The following halves should be after the introduction and and before the conclusion.
First half: Five paragraphs, on Setting, Narrative, Events, Characters and Language. Quotes from the primary text should be included.
In Theology, Character must relate to how the objects are used in the passage. Also, Language should include manner (aims linking to the events which happen) and matter (how the characters use words, some of which should be from the matter section).
Second half: Five paragraphs, each with reasons from secondary texts.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Detailed Reasoning

Think of a five-level chain of reasons, and the inferences from one to another for each of the reasons in your essay.

When agreeing with the writer, write the five reasons in the following order (for each, describe how food can be found):
1. Economics
2. Engineering
3. Arts
4. Music
5. Morality

When differing in opinion from the writer, write the reasons in the following order:
1. Biology (as for agreeing with the writer, i.e. how food can be found, until Medicine, see below.)
2. Economics
3. Engineering
4. Medicine
5. Morality (how a person may enter into different circumstances, e.g. trip over).