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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.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Pedagogical Closure

Think of 5 points at University (or 1 point in primary school or 2 points in secondary school) of an algorithm for each reason. In addition, write complete algorithms for five of the reasons.

Friday, May 14, 2010

Critical Evaluation

Critically evaluate an idea at the start of each paragraph by thinking of a perspective (e.g. politics, law, theology, etc.) from which it will be successful (when agreeing) or unsuccessful (when differing in opinion). An example of agreement from a perspective is "Smith argued for the planning of science because no two research students should work on the same project" should be agreed with by writing "A supervisor should cite the research student's idea from the project he worked on".

The Critical Evaluation may be interpreted as an algorithm (e.g. the point at which the supervisor's to-do list should be suspended was found, which is why he didn't cite the student's work). See Structure of a Paragraph.

Object from Critical Evaluation

One should include a second object when discussing the computer algorithm in the structure of a paragraph, or when making a critical evaluation of the first example.

Poles

In an essay about two writers, whose' works are at opposite poles of a contention, argue for either one and not against one.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Everything In The Essay Should Be Linked Together And Breasoned Out In The Essay

Academy Humanities Quiz

* should, concentrate, politics-type argument

1. What is an example of a sculpture using part of a room?

John put the table on its side, to act as a wind break.*

2. How would Tom touch Nick, so that he would give Tom a job?

Tom rubbed Nick’s shoulders.

5b. Draw a diagram of the simple structure for the answers 1-5 with answer numbers labelled. E.g.

1

/ \

2 4

| |

3 5

5c. What are the inferences between each linked pair of answers? Please label the pair numbers.

1-2. Nick should sit behind the wind break.

* The algorithm is successful

6a. What is an example of a sculpture (***)?

Peter put the table on its side, to act as a wind break.

6bi. Agree or differ in opinion from 6a. [ ] Agree [ ] Differ in opinion. Why?

Peter tripped on the castanets.

()6bii. If you differed in opinion in 6bi from 6a, what is the solution to the difference in opinion?

Nick clicked the castanets.

6c. How is 6a linked to 6bii?

Nick hung the castanets from the table.

7. What is…

10d. Draw a diagram of the simple structure for the answers 6-10 with answer numbers labelled. E.g.

6

/ \

7 9

| |

8 10

10e. What are the inferences between each linked pair of answers? Please label the pair numbers.

1-2. Peter sat behind the wind break.

11a. What is your main conclusion (Lucian’s theory of the part of the room is successful./ Lucian’s theory of the part of the room is unsuccessful.)

11b. What is the number of the answer from 1-5 and its link to the main conclusion?

11c. What is the number of the answer from 6-10 and its link to the main conclusion?

Friday, May 7, 2010

Input and Output

For each of the reasons from the essay, detailed reasoning and mind map, write programs which describe a transformation of data from input to output in Prolog.

For example, the Prolog predicate roompart1/5 calculates the closest part of the room (i.e. an object in the room) to a person. It takes the following arguments:

roompart1(+RoomParts, +LowerBound, +UpperBound, +Position1, -RoomPart1)

(+ means input and - means output)

RoomParts - list of room parts in the format [Position, Name]
LowerBound - Lowest position number
UpperBound - Highest position number
Position1 - The person's position
RoomPart1 - The closest room part to the person to return

A sample query for the program would read as follows:

roompart1([[0, space], [1, space], [2, table], [3, seat], [4, space]], 0, 4, 3, RoomPart).

The result would be:

RoomPart = seat

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Get A Job

As a student should earn an H1 to get a job with a lecturer, he or she should earn an H1 in an area of study taught by a lecturer.