Reflecting on your LA formative feedback

When writing an essay, you should:

• Avoid counter-arguments

• Make it clear what you are arguing

• mostly stay on topic, but it is OK to talk about irrelevant points for about half the essay

• Consider counter-arguments and rebuttals as part of your response

• Avoid generalisations

Is it acceptable in an essay, when analysing material, to simply say what you see, or re-tell the story in a broad way and then move on to your next section. 

• Yes

• No

• Only for Film Studies

• Only for Literary Studies

When analysing, don't link your ideas and arguments to details in the text/image/clip; furthermore, you must certainly avoid connecting your points to knowledge of context and the opinion of critics

• True

• False

Using mostly or only statistics, numerical data and graphs in a Liberal Arts essay is good idea.  

• False

• True

If you show that you comprehend the point, debate or issue and and justify your own position then you will show great understanding of material.

• False

• True

Using APA 7th correctly will allow you to get good marks for which criterion? 

• Subject knowledge

• Intellectual Skills

• Practical Skills

• Generic/Transferable Skills

Assignments that are more than 5% below the word count are unlikely to give adequate answers to the questions set

• True

• False

Essays that are more than 5% over 1200 word count will be penalized

• False

• True

You do not need a thesis statement in Liberal Arts essays

• True

• False

• You need it only for History of Ideas

Every source mentioned in the text of the essay needs to be listed in the reference list, but not every source listed in the reference list needs to be mentioned in the text

• True

• False