Welcome to Lucian's Pedagogy.

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

Please read the Table of Contents (Welcome!) . To earn A, (in an assignment, to have a healthy baby or use 50 As to earn a job) please visit the Anarchy Quiz.

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Creative Writing: Single object as subject

The subject of your work should be a single object.

English Literary Studies: essay organisation

For the close reading, write an introductory paragraph, paragraphs on setting, narrative, events, characters and language and conclusion. Your quotes, response (for the first half) and response and secondary text quotes (for the second half) should run through these. Your argument (using a distinctly different question's answer to connect your responses and the question, to show you have your own argument) should be in the first sentence of each paragraph.

For the discussion question (e.g. what is the relationship between madness and identity in King Lear), write an introductory paragraph, paragraphs on setting, narrative, events, characters and language, and paragraphs taking the space of five paragraphs continuing to answer the question, etc, and conclusion. The rest is the same as the close reading.

For the essay on two or more works, write an introductory paragraph, paragraphs on setting, narrative, events, characters and language, paragraphs for each of the novels or poems taking the space of five paragraphs continuing to answer the question, etc, and conclusion. The rest is the same as the close reading and discussion question.

English Literary Studies: essay organisation

For the close reading, write an introductory paragraph, paragraphs on setting, narrative, events, characters and language and conclusion. Your argument (using an argument on a different subject to connect your responses and the question) should be in the first sentence of each paragraph.

For the discussion question (e.g. what is the relationship between madness and identity in King Lear), write an introductory paragraph, paragraphs on setting, narrative, events, characters and language, and paragraphs taking the space of five paragraphs continuing to answer the question, etc, and conclusion. The rest is the same as the close reading.

For the essay on two or more works, write an introductory paragraph, paragraphs on setting, narrative, events, characters and language, paragraphs for each of the novels or poems taking the space of five paragraphs continuing to answer the question, etc, and conclusion. The rest is the same as the close reading and discussion question.

Creative Writing: Story

Write a story based on an idea like: entering a place and meeting a person in the position of an important person who makes a revelation.

Secondary text

Give your own reason for the main conclusion. Add secondary text material supporting you.

Close Reading

The first half of an English Literary Studies essay should be composed of the following five paragraphs:
• Characters
• Events
• Language
• Narrative
• Setting

Creative Writing: Devices

For each paragraph, apply a device to a particular word. Choose a word from the appropriate section of the reader (poetry, non-fiction, fiction) and apply it to a word.

Relation

Make the subject of your writing a relation (between two ideas, one a conclusion about the topic and one a conclusion on a separate topic, related to the first conclusion, e.g. as a ship company needs to make money, a politician needs to make money).

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.