Logistical Information about Submitting to D2L
Logistical Information about Submitting to D2L: • You need to create your document using Microsoft Word, then attach your file using .doc or .docx and submit to the appropriate “Assignment” folder. If you do not have MS Word, you may use another option. However, it is your responsibility to make sure that your file can be read, so please do make sure that your file can be accessed. Please keep ALL notes and outlines and drafts as they may be asked for in case of high percentages in an AI-evaluation reporting. • Once you submit your file, you will receive an automated receipt email from D2L confirming your submission. If you do NOT receive that email, you should try again. If you continue to experience difficulties, please send me an email with the exam BOTH as a file attachment AND with the responses copied inside the body of the email. Then try re-submitting it via D2L. (The email you send me with the exam essays will serve as a time-stamp for your submission, so you need to make sure that you do send me the email promptly.) • You are expected to review (and quote from) earlier weeks’ lectures and discussions in preparation for the exams, with essay prompts crafted and graded with the expectation that you also go well beyond what has already been written/said. Think about these Exams as a cross between a take-home essay exam and a short mid-semester paper for a 200-level English class. ***Plagiarism and AI Warning: ALL writing assignments in this class have Turnitin enabled, along with AI-writing detection. That means plagiarized or AI-generated material will be flagged and a Similarity Report will be sent. Similarity and AI Report gives the instructor information about what percentage of a document is AI-generated or lifted from other sources (including online sources and papers submitted to other universities, etc.), and a listing of all such sources. Instances of academic dishonesty will be reported for academic misconduct to the Dean of Students at Student Affairs. In other words, please use your own words and ideas for all your writing. Other than the required quoting of texts, lectures, and discussion comments (see below for more details), you should also refrain from relying on outside research, opting i nstead to develop and present your OWN argument and analyses. ANY source you do still choose to use needs to be credited (with quotation marks, citations, etc.) EACH and EVERY time you use a source. It is NOT acceptable to “borrow” key words/phrases/sentences from another source and then just leave a citation at the end of a paragraph. You need to indicate EXACTLY when and how you are using someone else’s ideas or words. Even if I have not called out anyone in discussion boards for such a practice, doing so in exams and papers will result in severe penalties. Please keep in mind that these are relatively short essay responses, so please try to limit even quotations from the texts to short and very relevant passages. (READ: Get straight to the point and do NOT exceed 3-4 lines of quotation per quote.) You are able to view the percentage of material flagged by “TurnItIn” similarity score for Similarity Report (Originality Check). If you find your percentage creeping above 15-20% or so, that is a clear indication that you need to cut down on the amount you quote/cite. These are not just arbitrary numbers but rather an indication of how much of your own voice is coming through in your writing. ***Remember that when you quote, those words do NOT count towards your total word count (for better or for worse). So, even if your essay is 600 words long, if you are quoting 25% of the time, that means the essay might not be meeting the required limit. Do not just quote or summarize plot in an attempt to meet the word count. Instructions for this exam: Write TWO essays for the exam. EACH of your two responses should be about 550-600 words of YOUR OWN WORDS/ANALYSES to total 1100-1200 words for the exam overall. While you should certainly present details and supporting evidence from your texts, please try to limit quotations from the text to short and very relevant passages. When you quote, those quoted words and any citations do NOT count towards your total word count (for better or for worse). Yes, I do check! Some people will be able to spend more time on these essays than others, so, to be fair to everyone, you are all limited to 1500 words total for the two essays together. Since some of you are already writing discussion comments in excess of 500 words, these word counts are clearly not too high. Instead, many of you will need to work on pruning your prose and getting more directly to your main point. Please remember that, unlike discussion board comments, this is a “take-home” essay exam for a 200-level English class. Your document is expected to have error-free grammar, complete sentences, appropriate paragraph breaks, original ideas and analysis, and specific details. English 202 Exam 2 Prompts: Choose TWO prompts and respond with essays of 550-600 words EACH (for a total of 1100-1200 words), not counting quotations or citations. Additional Requirements: • You MUST quote from at least ONE lecture for EACH of your essays. When quoting, you can follow something similar to this model: “… As mentioned in the first lecture on Hamlet, ‘…..’ (Kim, Lecture 7)…” [Yes, your professor is Julie Kim, and you would use the last name for quoting. You also need to mention which lecture you are pulling this quote from.] • You MUST quote from at least ONE peer comment for EACH of your essays— aside from your own comments or anything I wrote. When quoting, you can follow something similar to this model: “… As argued in a discussion comment about Antigone, ____ writes, ‘….’ (______, 4.3)…” [You need to use the student’s last name and identify which lecture and prompt the comment is from. Please remember that “Julie Kim” is me—your professor—so please use a peer comment instead of something I wrote.] Please note that none of these quotes should be very long (just 1-2 lines long) and that you cannot use the same quote again. You must supply these quotes (totaling just 2 per essay—one from my lectures and one from your peers) to indicate that you have been reading lectures and engaging in discussions. 1. Class/Social Hypocrisy in Wilde and Shaw: Soon we will read plays about characters in lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder, but the plays in this middle section tended to treat mostly characters who were at the middle classes and above. At the least, they were upper-middle class “bourgeois” or “professional,” and some were even downright filthy rich and (en)titled (Lady Bracknell, for instance). They all seemed “respectable.” But this veneer of respectability hides a lot of secrets. Compare and contrast how The Importance of Being Earnestand Mrs. Warren’s Profession deal with class/social hypocrisy. Which of the two plays does a more effective job of addressing these hypocrisies? How so? How do the playwrights depict and discuss hypocrisy in their societies? What is being criticized? 2. Individual vs. Family in Ibsen and Shaw: One of the major issues of contention in A Doll’s House is Nora’s decision to leave her husband and children at the end of the play. But that is not the only play that ends with a family member deciding to cut off relations with other family members, even in this one mini section. Compare A Doll’s House and Mrs. Warren’s Profession to analyze the thematic significance of the similar plot function of cutting off familial relations. Which of the two plays explored more effectively the need for the young woman—Nora or Vivie—to cut off family ties? If there is a difference in audience/critical attitude (including yours) toward the severing of family ties, why might that be? In what instances within these plays (only in the contexts of these plays, not more generally!) can the cutting off of relations be seen as positive, as affirming? Why or why not? 3. Tone and Approach in Ibsen and Wilde: Ibsen took a very serious and dramatic approach to writing about the issues that plagued late 19thcentury Norwegian society when he wrote the hugely controversial and ultimately very influential A Doll’s House. Wilde’s tremendously popular Importance of Being Earnest— despite its title—appears to take a much more humorous, flip, and possibly even frivolous approach to satirizing the conventions of his late Victorian (English) society. Compare the relative success of these two plays in getting across any social critique they are attempting to deliver by concentrating on their tone and approach. Which of the two authors—Ibsen or Wilde—used the more effective tone (ie, heavy vs light, serious vs comedic, etc.) to make their point? Please make sure that you are NOT talking about which play you liked better. Instead, offer critical analysis as you concentrate on why or how particular pieces of social criticism might be best delivered with either a somber and serious vs. a more satiric and humorous tone. (Please also note that #1 above is asking you to concentrate on the theme of CLASS issues while #3 is asking you to focus on style and TONE.) NOTE: Please do not forget that you need to include quotes from both my lectures and your peers’ discussion comments in EACH of the two essays. We have at least skirted around—if not directly confronted—some of these issues, so you should have plenty of material to work with.
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