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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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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).

Friday, May 2, 2008

P to H1 in a single step

• Are you not interested in P?

Are you interested in H1?

• Are you interested in the phrases "In the lecture" and "it said", and said your work out loud to check it?
• Are you interested in H1?
• Are you not interested in not having an H1?
• Is your work of H1 standard to a lecturer?
• Is your work not not of H1 standard to a lecturer?
• What is his/her comment on it?
• Does he/she think it earning H1 is correct and good?

Monday, April 21, 2008

Conclusion

The conclusion includes:
• The main conclusion

Introduction

An introduction includes:
• A thesis statement (main conclusion)

Argument

The main conclusion for each paragraph in the critique (mentioned in the previous post) should be linked to the main argument in your essay, which may be drawn from another part of the course.
The last sentence of each of the paragraphs in your body should link to the next paragraph.

Library texts

Usually five texts are required for the critique. Use an argument map to structure the conclusions from each text, e.g. two conclusions supporting your paragraph's conclusion and a reason for each.


Write an inference from each reason to the conclusion that it causes.