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美术学院视觉艺术系
FACULTY OF FINE ARTS, DEPARTMENT OF VISUAL ARTS
研究论文：占30%
Research Essay: worth 30%
应当在11月18日和本周11月19号至22前把硬拷贝教程交到turnintin处
due November 18 (turnitin) and hard copy in tutorial during the week of Nov 19 to 22.
选择任何一件在多伦多展出期间和具有意义和重要性的方向艺术作品，换句话说如果你决定什么想法,假设,或情绪传达，可以通过工作和挑选一个或两个这样的讨论在你的文章中，一定要选择一项工作,在一个现有的学术文献(书籍和随笔写关于它),您可以进行研究，因此你可以学习并报告其他研究人员(或者艺术家)所说的关于工作的意义。尽量记住正视你的工作有助于或帮助创建它的意义.
Chose any single artwork that is or has been on exhibit in Toronto during the term and write about some aspect of its meaning and significance. In other words decide what ideas, assumptions, or emotions are being communicated through the work and pick one or two of these to discuss in your essay. Be sure to choose a work that has an existing academic literature (books and essays written about it) that you can research so you can learn and report on what other researchers (and perhaps the artist) have said about the work’s meaning. Try to keep in mind how the formal aspects of the work contribute to or help to create its meaning. Moderate your ambitions and focus your discussion according to the time and space you have been given. It is much better to focus on one or two aspects of a work’s meaning in some depth than to skip superficially across many different points.
Thesis and Thesis Statement 论文和毕业论文声明
永远不要忘记的事实,你的文章是一个论点,支持一个特定的论文,关于你论文的主题，可以根据你所学的知识进行研究。一切在你的文章中都应该存在,因为它有助于解释你的论文和移动你的论点前进。
Never lose track of the fact that your essay is an argument in support of a particular thesis; that is, an argument for a specific claim about your topic that you are making based on what you have learned in your research. Everything in your essay should be present because it helps to explain your thesis and move your argument forward.
Your essay must begin with a clear and concise statement of your thesis. Remember that this is an academic essay, not a mystery novel, so you do not need to keep the reader in suspense about what you will be saying. In an essay of this length your thesis statement should be no more than one paragraph in length. Think of your thesis statement as an explanation of your thesis, one that takes the reader through the main points of your argument step by step. In an art history essay it will also include mention of those artworks that you will be discussing at length and explain very concisely what your discussion of them will add to your argument.
It is important to remember that in your thesis statement you are not making the argument itself, but only summarizing what you will argue. It is a subtle distinction, but what I mean is that you do not need to present all the details of your evidence, such as quotations or detailed arguments, just get down the basic points. You will unpack and prove the claims of your thesis statement in the body of your essay.
It is almost always the case that you will write a first draft of your thesis statement early on to help you structure your research and outline your essay and then re-write the thesis statement when the body of your essay has been completed, because some of your ideas will have changed as you wrote and edited. You want the thesis statement to summarize the essay you are actually submitting, not the one you initially intended to write.
Research 调查
你的论点是你的论文需要的证据，这将是你研究的产物。请记住，有不同种类的证据和某些典型的事件，这样你的论文就会比别人优秀许多。Your argument for your thesis requires evidence, which will be the product of your research. Remember that there are different sorts of evidence and some types are stronger than others. Likely the work of art you are discussing will provide important evidence in itself. If you have picked the right object it will reward your close analysis richly. That said, you may often not be the first person to have thought something about a particular work, so be sure to credit any previous research you have found that arrived at an idea ahead of you. You will also need to draw on the existing literature in general
– i.e. all the things that have been published that relate to your topic.
Show a command of the existing literature in your essay. If you introduce an important idea drawn from your research be sure to determine whether the idea originated in the source where you first discovered it or if that author is building on previous research herself. Just as importantly, have there been important objections to the idea?
If so do you find them credible? 本站QQ1455780998 email:[email protected]
Why or why not? Be discriminating in your sources, some are more reliable than others. Part of your evaluation of a source will be based on your analysis of the writer’s argument(s), but also keep in mind that some sources tend to be more reliable than others in general. An official online academic journal will tend to be more reliable than websites like, for example, Wikipedia. Sites like Wikipedia can be a place to start your research, but not definitive sources in themselves.
If you find information that is helpful but located in a potentially untrustworthy source it is your task to track down a better source. This is also true in the case of citing your lecture notes. In very rare cases I may mention something in lecture based on my professional experience that you will find useful for your essay.
Most of the time, however, I am simply reporting the work of other scholars or my published research. In those cases, it is up to you to track down the original source. If you get stuck, send your Tutorial Assistant an email and she’ll try to help (note that most survey textbooks are like lectures: distillations of all the best research to date. Use their bibliographies and footnotes to track down original, more detailed sources). Also, remember that librarians can be your best friends. Do not hesitate to get their help.
Lastly, be sure to digest your research. The most common problem in undergraduate essays is that students sometimes simply paraphrase their sources and cobble them together without actually thinking through what the various ideas mean or how they relate to each other.
This has several consequences. First, not much is really learned in such cases. Second and just as importantly, if you have not really thought through the ideas you have discovered then you will not be able to assess them. Are they credible? Do you agree? Most importantly do they contradict one another?
In that case who has the more convincing argument? It’s only after you have unpacked your research that you can really put it to work for you.
Bibliography and Citation 参考文献和引文
Your essay must include a complete bibliography. It is also essential that you fully and properly cite all quotations and any important ideas that are not your own, or which someone else thought of before you did. Even very brief quotations must be set in quotation marks and cited. Any commonly accepted system of citation that is thorough (that is, makes it possible to trace your reference to a specific source and page number) and used consistently is acceptable.
Title page:
Your essay should have a separate title page with the following information on it: The essay title; the course number and title; your name, your student number; your tutorial number; the name of your TA and the name of the course director.
Essay length: 1000 words.
***Essay due date: The essay is to be submitted electronically through the turnitin option on the moodle website by 11:59pm Nov 18.
***Essay Format:
All essays should also be submitted in hard copy, double-spaced to your TA. With the hard copy, you should also include reasonable quality, small images of works of art that you discuss in an appendix at the end of your essay. Label them: Figure 1; Figure. 2; etc. and note the figure number in parentheses in your text (fig. 1) the first time you mention a work of art.
Late Penalties:
Late essays will be penalized 3% per day. Late hard copies should be placed in my drop box. Extensions will only be granted for verifiable medical reasons or genuine emergencies (failure to schedule enough time to complete an assignment does not constitute an emergency). Please do not wait until the day that an assignment is due to request an extension.
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