美国留学生英语作业要求参考：evaluation of steel cloud

美国留学生英语essay要求参考：evaluation of steel cloud

 

     In your final essay, you are asked to evaluate “Steel Cloud” (also known as The West Coast Gateway Monument).  Is this a design that you would endorse as a monument to immigration (either for the time it was proposed—the end of the twentieth century—or now at the outset of the 21st century)?  

 

     This essay will draw upon the skills that you have developed during the course of the semester.  In the broad view, this essay will challenge you to write into a subject area that is complex and even confusing (think of those jumbled steel beams!).  More specifically, your ability to describe, to define and to compare should be engaged by this assignment.  Not only is this essay the culmination of all the skills you have been working on this semester, it is the culmination of the reading you have done about Americans who define and redefine our country and about monuments.  

 

     To evaluate, you will find it useful to set up evaluative criteria that will be the rational foundation for your judgment.   Criteria (singular = criterion) are the heart of any reasoned evaluation.  As such, most of your essay should be devoted to defining each criterion you choose, arguing for your choice of each, and finally applying your chosen criterion to “Steel Cloud”.  Make sure to appropriately organize your criteria and to transition logically between them.  

 

     Where to find appropriate criteria?  You might consider what defines a “monument” versus other forms of art (paintings, poetry, etc.).  You might look at what (criteria) make other monuments successful (comparison!).   You might explore the basis of your own response (how you define beauty, for example).  You might explore the realities of California and immigration that demand a different approach from other monuments.  There are many options for choosing criteria.  Zinsser’s essays about American monuments should provide you with a toolkit of possible criteria to use, though don’t feel limited to these.    

 

     To help you define your criteria, you are encouraged to compare Steel Cloud to another monument—one that for you illustrates the primary criteria that you have chosen.  You are encouraged to research this monument and to draw upon that research in your essay.  Feel free, though, to draw more than one comparison if you find more helpful.

 

     Make sure to read through all the materials in your packet.  Your essay should demonstrate a thorough understanding of the design, both its contents and its rationale.  Further, you should be familiar with the response by critics which has been provided for you in your packet.  Where you find it useful to cite materials from your packet and from other sources that you encounter, make sure to use MLA format.  #p#分页标题#e#

 

Your essay must provide a Works Cited page and should appropriately provide in-text citations following MLA format.  Make sure that your essay is a model of how to “select, quote, paraphrase, and document source material and incorporate it into an expository essay,” as required to fulfill the Student Learning Outcomes for this course.  

Writing Tips for the final essay:

 

This essay is designed to exercise skills you have used in this class—primarily your ability to describe, your ability to compare and your ability to define and apply criteria.  

Here is a possible outline of how you might structure your essay:

 

1) Introduction (Engage reader—hook, introduce topic (contest?), state thesis—indicate thesis).

2) Background information on Steel Cloud:

a) Details

b) Rationale

c) Controversy

3) Setting up your criteria (Use paragraphing to separate the criteria.  Have a logic for the sequence of the criteria—don’t just list them.  This logic should be reflected in your transitions between them.  When using criteria, you will need to define them, illustrate them with use of an example, defend them over other criteria, and finally apply them.  How do they help us evaluate Steel Cloud).

A) First Criterion 

Define, illustrate (be descriptive), defend (why is this relevant to the matter at hand), apply to Steel Cloud

B) Next Criterion

Define, illustrate, defend, apply

C) Final criterion (most important?)

Define, illustrate, defend, apply to Steel Cloud

      4)   Conclusion (never use “In conclusion” or other such mechanical devices.  Here is where you want to be emphatic—your last chance to pitch the importance or urgency of your idea.  Be careful not to be shrill, but don’t be tedious either.)

1）简介（搞读者挂钩，引入话题（比赛），状态dissertation表明dissertation）。

2）背景资料钢云：

a）有关

B）的基本原理

三）争议

3）设置标准（使用段落分开标准的标准，不要只列出他们这种逻辑应该体现在它们之间的过渡。使用标准时，你会需要有一个逻辑顺序。定义它们使用的一个例子，说明他们，保卫他们比其他的标准，并最终应用它们，它们如何帮助我们评估钢云）。#p#分页标题#e#

A）第一准则

定义，说明（描述），辩护（这是为什么手头的事情有关），适用于钢云

B）下一页标准

定义，说明，维护，应用

C）最终标准（最重要的？）

定义，说明，维护，适用于钢云

      4）结论（从来不使用“结论”或其他类似的机械设备，这里是你想成为言之凿凿你最后的机会，你的想法在球场的重要性和紧迫性，要小心，不要被刺耳的，但不要繁琐的。