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WorksheetsReflecting on your LA formative feedback
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 7mins
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
If you want to quote directly from a source, you should indicate that it is a quote by using the quotation marks
True
False
It depends
