The last assignment for our class will be a review of
readings and concepts from this class that you found relevant to your own life as a teacher, artist, MAE student and human being. These ideas should not be forgotten! You should apply them to your work in future classes and to your MAE thesis project.
Ed, Future and I expect our graduate students to cite the authors of books and articles both in their thesis papers and at their thesis defense. If you do not mention any authors from books that we know you have read, we will ask to revise your thesis paper. To avoid this from happening, the final assignment for this class will give you a written record of ideas, authors and book titles we have covered. I highly recommend that you do this for other classes as well.
We read some or all of four books this semester, read three articles, viewed one film and
visited several websites. We also shared a lot of ideas on the blog. Now your mission is to create a
succinct document annotating the main ideas you want to
take from the class. You should reflect on why these ideas matter to you more
than others and how you might apply them later on in a thesis exhibition paper, professional project paper or traditional thesis.
Your paper should be between 3-5 pages long. Include a bibliography using the APA style guidelines provided by the Purdue University Writing Lab website -
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
You should bookmark this site for use in other classes and for when you write your thesis paper.
Please email me your final assignment in a Word Document no later than next Sunday, December 9th, at midnight. Questions about the final assignment, if you have any, should be posted to this blog. If you have a question, chances are good that others in the class have been wondering the same thing!
Thanks for being a great class, always full of interesting reflections about the readings and many, many creative teaching ideas! Your students are very fortunate to have you as a teacher.
I look forward to receiving your papers next week. Thank you again, and take care!
carolyn
