This course will take you through huge chunks of science. Your course project will culminate in an eight-ten page paper. Your research paper will require a minimum of five academic-scholarly sources. You need to tell me where you found each fact that you mention... plus I expect high originality, analysis, insight, and fresh applications of ideas ..... If you just report or describing ideas by others, you will be plagiarising. ....
... then please contact me. I want to provide some balance.
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the following paragraph sickens me.
This course will take you through huge chunks of art history from the Stone age through Andy Warhol. I am asking you to produce a 12 page paper. Your research paper needs to have at least fourteen citations. I expect the work to be original. If you just report or describing ideas by others, you will be plagiarizing. ....
I have highlighted the sentence that wrenches my stomach.
This is enough to turn a person off of this project if they have never seen themselves as an art historian.
How can I have an original idea?
Mere reporting, describing, and finding others' ideas are discouraged, and plagiarism is grounds for failure.
I thought that the entire point of using APA citing to to REPORT and cite and mention other people's ideas.
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I think this paragraph should be re-written in a way to encourage a new person, who has NO IDEA WHAT ART HISTORY IS ABOUT, to find a topic that really does become pleasing to that person.
RE WRITE
This course will take you through huge chunks of human history from the Paleolithic era through the Vietnam War and into our postmodern world. If this is the first time you have heard of Confucius or civilizations in Africa or Stonehenge or the caves in Southern France or the parts of a column, then you might not think that you can have an original idea. Your course project will culminate in an eight-to-ten-page paper.
I encourage you to find a topic that interests you. Start by looking through the book and putting a post-it note next to pictures or quotes that grab youur attention. Keep track of where you find other examples and remember to use "documentation" (tell me where you found the information about that item). You have a unique view if you can connect your experience with what you see in this book and in other articles that you find. Perhaps you will notice that there are columns in buildings that appear in a movie Three Days of the Condor. You might think, "Hmm, I wonder where those buildings are?" (the movie takes place largely in Washington, DC). The movie ends in New York City with the New York Times building in the background. You could write about the architecture in that scene and then connect that style to something that you have seen in this book. It might seem early in the class -- just two weeks into the course and I'm asking you to select a topic before you have had a chance to read more than 5 chapters (we will cover another 9 chapters). I'm flexible. If you want to go in a different direction later in the course, if you need more time to create a project or if you want to change your topic, I can certainly give extensions so that after the course ends, you can finish the essay project later, and your grade will temporarily stand as "incomplete." The point is that you can see the passion of someone who is not a scholar when that person writes about or talks about something that they really like. If you go to this link, www.TINYURL.com/sunNHD, you will see a project by two teenagers about a moment in history. Highly original approach and they document everything that they found. They quote other people's words and they quote the ideas of other people. They restate the situation in their own words. You can also see the work of Ben Staley, a teenager who wrote about a family history project www.TINYURL.com/benhistoryproject. I don't expect you to write like a scholar. I just want you to put time into finding five sources of information to explain where you got your facts. If you stick with this project and put yourself into it, you will create a work that has high originality, analysis, insight, and fresh applications of ideas. I hope you will report the ideas of other people, describe how other people see things, and tell me about what you find interesting in the ideas of other people -- and if you tell me where you found those other ideas, you can avoid plagiarism. Your success with this project stands in keeping track of "my ideas" and "ideas that I read about" -- and then you are a scholar. You are comparing your ideas with the ideas of other people.... Your paper is to be 70-80% original and 20-30% resourced (documented via turnitin.com).
Your research paper will require a minimum of five academic-scholarly sources. Both in-text citation and an end reference page as specified by the APA style sheet are required. Details and milestones follow.
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