Category: Literature

 
For this assignment i chose Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground parts one and two to write about

Option 1: Unreliable Narrators
Choose a text with an unreliable narrator and contrast the narrator’s version of what happens with your own reconstruction of events. Your reconstruction of the plot should be based on clues within the text such as contradictions within the narration or impossibilities that the narrator doesn’t account for.
What does the narrator leave out or misinterpret? How do we know?
What lines of text let us know that something is wrong or missing in the narrator’s version?

Option 2: Defamiliarization
Choose one text from the reading list for this course and describe how the author defamiliarizes the content. Define defamiliarization using quotations from the lecture slides or other scholarly source and then describe how the author of your choice does this in a given work of literature.
What would normal readers expect to find?
What in the text does might the reader find surprising or unfamiliar?
What conventional wisdom does the author defamiliarize?
How does the author’s depiction of a person, institution, society, object, etc. force the reader to reconsider it?
What descriptive terms seem unusual or inappropriate? Why?

Option 3: Theory of Mind, Part 2
Discuss the use of theory-of-mind by characters and the effects it has on the plot in one of the texts we have read since essay 1 (Sarmiento, Machado, Coleridge, Rossetti, Hugo, Dostoevsky, or Chekhov).
Describe how one character’s knowledge of another character’s thinking causes events in the plot.
Cite passages of dialogue that reveal the mental states of the characters.
Compare what one character thinks to what another character thinks he/she thinks.
Identify plot events that depend on one character misunderstanding another’s thinking.
You may include the author’s use of theory-of-mind, also. (optional)

Essay Criteria:
Every essay (in this class or any other) must contain an original thesis and support for that thesis.

Thesis: The thesis of a literary essay will be your interpretative claim about one or more texts. Avoid vague generalizations or speculation about what a text means. Your claim must be supportable.
Vague and unprovable thesis: “I believe that Frankenstein is all about how human beings shouldn’t play God.”
Qualified and Provable thesis: “Mary Shelley’s protagonist, Victor Frankenstein expresses noble ambition, but he often fails to consider the long-term effects his actions will have on other people.”

Support: The support for your thesis must come primarily from the text, itself. You may use outside sources, though these are not required.
If you do use outside sources, these should be scholarly sources and not unqualified, general sources such as Wikipedia or Sparknotes.
Simply repeating your claim in different terms does not qualify as support.
Use quotations, and then explain how the quotation supports the claim. Do not use drop-quotes, long quotations that are inserted as if their relevance was self-evident. Describe what that quotation reveals or why it is significant.

Format & Requirements
3 pages
Must be posted online by Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 11am. Class attendance on that day is still mandatory.
File type: Microsoft Word (DOCX) or Adobe PDF
Standard format:
Basic font (Calibri, Cambria, Times New Roman), 11 or 12 point
One inch margins
Use MLA or APA citation format within the text and in the Works Cited or Reference list at the end. Other APA/MLA requirements are not necessary (such as title page).
You will be graded on your ability to formulate an interpretive claim about the reading and support it with quotations from the text. Base your interpretation of the text in the text.Avoid speculation and overgeneralisation.

A Review of Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration in Afghanistan
4 chapters with a case study and literature review. 35 pages.

Please try to use writing level consistent with mine.

Scaffolding Literacy Package for teachers. Chosen book for this task: “Tales from outer suburbia” by Shaun Tan – Pick one story that has enough text to work with for the following: In this assignment you will build a package of materials that will provide the resources to work through one cycle of the Scaffolding Literacy sequence. You are required to read the attached documents and readings to understand what scaffolding literacy is before attempting the task. I have attached two example so you can see and understand what you are required to do and how the perfect assignment would look. The package will contain the following: A coversheet attached and the following sections: An overview of the lessons in the sequence – identifies the lesson sequence and the lesson focus for each lesson (1 page) Text selection – identifies the book under study, lists worthwhile teaching outcomes for the book and indicates which of those outcomes the upcoming lessons will address (no more than 1 page) Contextual understanding – identifies broad cultural and situational contexts in the book which may be challenging for EALD learners and suggests ways in which these may be introduced to the students in preparation for the lessons in the sequence (no more than 1 page) Text orientation – a script for the planned delivery of the lesson, in particular highlighting the words and phrases which are being fore-grounded in preparation for upcoming lessons. Language Orientation – a script for the planned delivery of the lesson, in particular highlighting the ways in which meanings will be elaborated. Transformations – a script for transformations on one or two sentences. Word Study – select five words from your transformation sentence/s and indicate the different ways in which those words could be studied with the children. Patterned writing – construct a writing plan for use by students NB Each of these teaching package components will be both demonstrated in the lectures and prepared by students in the tutorials You are also to include a critical reflection of a scaffolding literacy lesson you have observed in the classroom. It should include a description of what you observed in the lesson, how it reflected your understanding of the purpose of the lesson as described in the literature and in lectures, and how it informed your own construction of the same step in the Scaffolding Literacy sequence. Attach this critical reflection to the lesson in the sequence it describes. For example, if your critical reflection is of a Transformations lesson, place it with your Transformations lesson.

 

Nobel laureate Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart explores the political, social, and religious effects of British expansion into the African interior. How does this novel serve as a tool for understanding late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century imperialism? How do British authorities (missionaries, merchants, governors) undermine traditional relationships and practices? In what ways do Africans respond to empire building?
The challenge in this assignment is to make and support your argument in 1500 words. That means weighing your evidence carefully and analyzing it collectively to formulate the best possible essay.
As a primary source analysis essay, you must make a critical assessment of the texts under consideration. Papers must also include a clear thesis/argument. Outside materials are not welcome. Use only assigned course materials and lecture notes in formulating this essay.
Note: If you do not complete this assignment, you must complete the Perec analysis. Either way, you are still responsible for reading the material.
Formatting and Other General Guidelines:
 12pt Times New Roman typeface
 Double-spaced
 Use Chicago-style footnotes to cite materials used in the essay.
 Proofread for spelling and grammar prior to submission
 Include your name and page number in the header, aligned right.
 Submit your essay via the Blackboard assignment folder.

 

 

briefly:
In order to complete this assessment (script analysis and prevention), you are strongly advised to use the article published by Leclerc, Wortley and Smallbone (2011) in Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (I uploaded that). The Discussion section of this article (pp.220-231) is divided in two parts: 1) Script analysis with in-text description under ‘The Protoscript in Child Sex Offending’, and 2) Situational prevention measures with in-text description under ‘Crime Script, Intervention Points and Situational Prevention’. This discussion represents an excellent template for you to follow for this assessment.

Using the 10 public court records I uploaded as pdf files:

1) Develop a script and include a theoretical figure presenting the script in the assessment for the type of crime chosen (drug importation)
2) Provide an in-text description of the script using your literature review for that purpose;
3) Apply one of the five situational prevention techniques (increasing effort, increasing risk, reducing rewards, removing excuses or reducing provocations) from Cornish and Clarke (2003) (I uploaded that) to the script and discuss its potential for prevention (you have to suggest a minimum of one measure for each stage of the script)
For this section on situational prevention, you also have to include a table outlining the measures for each stage of the script and provide an in-text explanation of the content of the table
also look at the assessment criteria:

1- Quality of script analysis
a. Are the stages of the script correctly identified based on data? (5%)
b. Is the script figure (and in-text description) comprehensive:
i. Are you including and discussing each stage of the script? (5%)
ii. Are you using the literature review completed earlier this semester for that purpose? (5%)

2- Quality of prevention measures
a. Are the prevention measures relevant and appropriate for the script? (5%)
b. Is the situational technique chosen from Cornish and Clarke (2003) applied and discussed for each stage of the script? (10%)

3- Quality of presentation
a. Is the script figure clear and well presented? Is the writing clear and concise (punctuation, grammar, spelling, etc.)? (10%)

Task Description:
Write a literature review on the topic set by your lecturer

The literature review should be based on a minimum of 5 articles. At least 3 articles may be selected from the reference list in your research article for Task 2

Select and Read
1. Select and evaluate academic sources that are relevant to the topic.
2. Critically read the selected articles to understand and make notes on the main points

Organise your information
3. Identify a set of similar topics or themes that from the selected articles. You should expect to identify 3 – 5 main themes. These will form the paragraphs of your literature review
4. Order the themes or topics into a logical progression

Structure your writing
5. Introduce the topic of the literature review
(this section: approximately 150 words)

6. Synthesise: In the body of the review, the information should be organised according to the identified themes. For each theme, write a paragraph (or more) that synthesises the relevant information from across the various sources. Each paragraph should be logically linked to the previous and subsequent paragraphs. Ideas in each paragraphs should be linked with appropriate cohesive devices.
(this section: approximately 1100 words)

7. Conclude the review by summarising the main points from the review, and drawing out some overall conclusions
(this section: approximately 200 words)
Assessment criteria:
[Obj 2] reads critically, and articulates the processes by which this occurs
[Obj 1, 3] synthesises various authors’ views thematically
[Obj 3] is grammatically accurate
[Obj 3] summarises, paraphrases and cites effectively

ACADEMIC LITERACIES in TESOL and Applied Linguistics

Student name and number:
Assessment Task: Literature review ✔

Criteria Inadequate/ Fail Adequate/ Pass Good/ Credit Superior/ Distinction Outstanding/ High Distinction
Critical reading of selected sources

Effective summarising, paraphrasing and citing

Thematic synthesis of authors’ views

Grammatically accurate

Correct citation and referencing

(Note: not all criteria are equally weighted in determining a final grade )

 
Assessment 2: Literature Essay (One one chosen Perspective) (individual)
Allocation: 20 %
Length: 1500 words
This task is designed to develop critical thinking, research and reading skills.
You will use a minimum of 6 journal articles from 2010 to current. These must be scholarly peer reviewed journal articles YOU must locate and which relate to your chosen Perspective. In addition to these six journal articles you can refer to other books and journals, internet resources etc.
You will select one of the Perspectives:
• Leadership, Governance & Management
• Sustainability
• Innovation & Entrepreneurship
• Technology (disruptive).
The task is to explain organisational change from that Perspective.
The essay is in two parts. Firstly, use peer-reviewed literature to explain the Perspective (its main ideas). Following this, chose one change diagnosis and one change intervention, explain how they can be applied to manage organisational change sustainable from this Perspective.
• You will need to discuss at least one change diagnostic and one change intervention.
• Use the Harvard referencing system

Marking Criteria:
Perspective literature (clearly explained using Managing Organizational Change literature) 5
Change literature 5
Intervention literature 5
Grammar / Harvard referencing 5 HURDLE*
*Hurdle: Referencing must be eligible to pass. See the Academic Honesty and Preventing Plagiarism policy

 

I. Please answer of the following questions in a well- organized and developed, original and insightful essay. Try to keep your essay to no more than three typed pages. You must cite form the works you choose to discuss in your essay. (50% of Grade).

1. Please discuss representations of religion in at least two of the writers we have studied.
I studied about the Romantic period, and the book is The NORTON ANTHOLOGY ENGLISHH LITERATURE Volume D
Writers I have studied: William Wordsworth, William Blake, John Keats, and Mary Shelley

II. Grade Criteria: Part 2 (50% of Grade)

1. Apply

Introduction is clear and states the author, title, and genre of the texts, and the thesis is clearly stated.
Paragraphs are coherent and well developed
Conclusion clearly summarizes the main points of the analysis.
Major grammatical errors are avoided: comma splices, fused sentences, fragments, and agreement errors.
Correct punctuation is used.

2. Analysis

Passages form the texts relevant to your thesis are cited in the essay.
Language of the cited passages is closely analyzed to validate your thesis.

3. Produce

Thesis is clear and validated by a thoughtful and close reading of the texts.
Theoretical and interpretive strategies are utilized where appropriate.
Discussion places the texts in the lager conceptual framework of the Enlightenment and Romanticism.

Could you please write the Literature Review Chapter for the topic of the research proposal (the one that you wrote for me)?.
The guideline of writing the literature review chapter as in the file enclosed.
chapter roughly around 4,200 words.
You can submit all 3 orders (I put 3 orders separately for Introduction, Literature Review, and Research Method) to me within 20 days.

Do not summarize the story and then give your opinion of it. Support a thesis: shared theme & the use of the elements of lit. to convey it. Do not use the first person pronoun “I” anywhere in your paper. Although you are exploring the elements, don’t use the words “element” or “theme” in your analysis. In place of these words, use the actual theme and element.
For the eassy:
Intro: Brief introduction to story; make sure you include the author, title, and date (Dates go directly after the title of a work in parentheses: “The Lottery” (1948).)
Body: Main points that support your claim; give each its own ¶, topic sentence, support from the story, quotes from your literary criticism, and explication/analysis on your part. You may choose to address each main point in one ¶ or to split each main point into two ¶s (by story). Your main points will be focused around the elements you select.
Conclusion: Final statement which makes purpose and relevance of analysis clear to reader and leaves the reader thinking.