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Midterm Essay Reflection on the humanities course.
Objectives:
How do you Explain and demonstrate critical skills and understandings you’ve gained over the duration of the course, so far, through Week 8
Analyze specific examples, consider alternative views, and think critically about arts and ideas and responses to them.
1. Brief Summary of Assignment and link to fuller explanation:
Prepare an essay that shows the overall knowledge that can be gained from studies ch.1-ch.7 intro to humanities
Discuss what engaged and can make someone think, especially relationships that have been seen so far between arts, ideas, and the human condition,
based on what we have studied so far. Consider these areas we studied in your discussion:
a. visual, literary, performing arts b. key ideas and themes c. humanities skills.
Discuss specific aspects about them that are found significant, with specific examples. Apply knowledge and critical thinking skills to go beyond obvious, everyday thinking to explain their value. Also, explain what you hope to improve on and accomplish during the second half of the course.
2. Essay Criteria and Structure
well-organized, informed, critically aware essay, with a clear beginning, middle, and end:
Introduction. Briefly, lay out what a plan to discuss.
Body of essay. Discuss areas a, b, and c (see Prompt above) with examples in depth . . .
Deeper understandings, challenges, surprises, other discoveries . . .
Show breadth. Use your initiative to choose different kinds of examples from the course and life to illustrate and support your points.
Conclusion. Please discuss broader insights, and interpretive questions you are left with, as well as what you hope to improve on and accomplish in the 2nd half of the course.
3. Format. Either MLA or APA is fine
Double space. Use 1″ margins.
Clear, well-organized, informed essay (see #4, below)
Write in your own words, using the first person “I” (this is mainly a reflection not a research essay, although evidence and reasoning are expected to support points.
As you proofread, bold face titles of art, poetry, stories, and performances, publications, etc., for clarity.
Credit sources! (see what needs crediting, and how to do it in #s 5 and 6, below).
Proofread for clarity, accuracy, meaning, completeness.
Length: ~ 3-4 double-spaced pages (from 1000 – ~1200 words). Earn up to 30 points.
4. Point of View, Resources, and Credits. When refering to text examples, name them and the chapter section where they are located. Other relevant sources: slides, links, class activities, your own homework, discussions, comments, experiences or applications.
Point of view. Clarify who is saying what. You may use a few (up to 3) paraphrases and brief quotations but they should not take-up more than 10-15% of the essay (total). Credit your sources.
Comment in the first person (“I”). Express thoughts and write, including when to make a connection to a relevant outside experience, example, or interesting information. Credit your sources.
Use Citations for Resources like these.
Note citations in parentheses after material is used, at the sentence’s end.
Revel E-book illustration: (last name of artist, Fig. 5.4);
Revel E-book Quotation/ paraphrase: abbreviated title, chapter + text section (ABH, Ch4.4: Murasaki, Genji);
Slides (title of artist/artwork, slide set title, and slide #);
Student Writings from Study Slide Comments, Takeaways, Discussions (credit writer, type of entry, topic title)
Online sources (text and images) (author, title, date, and direct, active link to specific quotes or examples)