Description/Focus: Essay Value: 35 % Due date: Sunday Week 6 Length: 750 words Background: This assessment tasks seeks to help you understand how the conditions that were created by the period...

Description/Focus:

Essay

Value:

35 %

Due date:

Sunday Week 6

Length:

750 words

Background:

This assessment tasks seeks to help you understand how the conditions that were created by the period described as modernity influenced all spheres of social life. The changes that were created affected how people lived, worked, and communicated. For artist this was an opportunity to capture these new experiences engaging and at times critiquing their impacts not only on themselves but society more generally. In examining these changes and artists responses to them extends our understanding of the role of the arts in society both during the 20^th century and still today.

The conditions that were created by modernity include:

1. A belief in progress and development through science & technology

2. Primacy of individual & self-expression

3. Rejection of past, religion and myth

To complete this task you will need to explain your understanding of modernity and how it influenced modernism and was reflected in the work of artists.

Task:

Explain what modernity is and how the changes it created influenced modernism. Identify how artists reflected these changes in their work.

Presentation:

Essays should be typed, single-sided with no less than 12pt font, 1.5 – 2.0 line spacing, with all pages firmly stapled together. Students must keep a copy of all material presented for assessment. Submit via Learnline.

Referencing: APA

Assessment criteria:

Content :

Evidence of reading and research:

• Covers all important issues in relation to the topic and stated scope
• Uses appropriate peer-reviewed materials; mostly academic journal articles and books from university presses; assess reliability, suitability, and bias if from other sources; avoids internet sources

Depth of analysis and evidence of critical thinking in identifying contemporary issues:

• Uses readings (references) to substantiate positions taken in relation to topic.
• Goes beyond simply reporting what others have said; argues from unique perspective; integrates unit ideas/ material and makes links between different concepts
• Recognition of what the question asks; analysis of question elements; identification of important issues and problems

Creative and imaginative response in communicating ideas

· The writer’s argument is made explicit throughout the essay through the use of semantic markers and restating of the thesis.

· The argument is presented in a logical order

· Evidence contradicting thesis included and dealt with

Text organization: Clarity & coherence organisation and expression of ideas in a logical manner.

Introduction

· Provides an orientation to the topic – background context

· States purpose of the essay

· States thesis or proposition (main point/argument)

· States outline of the essay’s stages

· States scope of the essay

Main Body

· Arguments logically sequenced to support thesis

· Each argument linked to thesis in topic sentence

· Arguments logically organised into paragraphs

· Paragraphs linked

· Generally one argument per paragraph

Conclusion

· Summarises outline

· Confirms/states thesis

· Qualifies thesis if required

Literacy skills: grammar, spelling, sentence & paragraph construction

· Spelling and punctuation accurate

· Sentence structure not too long and meaning clear

· Formal academic language used

Language specific to the topic/discipline used where appropriate

Referencing

Correct referencing APA 6th/list of references Adequate and appropriate illustrations correctly