WEEK 6 (February 28- March 4): Art, Conquest, and Identity: The Five Dynasties Period, Song and Yuan. Due Friday by 1:00PM PT: Read Chapter 8, pages 171-193 and write a chapter summary.
WEEK 7 (March 7-11): Due: No reading summary due! Submit the first page of your research paper, including your precise thesis statement, and your bibliography. Due by Friday by 1:00PM PT
Spring Recess (March 14-19): NO INSTRUCTION
WEEK 8 (March 21-25): Midterm Paper Due. MUST BE ON TIME
Midterm Paper Due Friday, March 25 by 1:00PM PT (Email it to your professor). No weekly reading or writing assignments due.
Please note that you do not have a reading summaries due weeks 7 or 8. Instead, during week 7 you will submit the first page of your research paper on the Taj Mahal along with a well-crafted thesis statement and your bibliography.
Please refer to the following:
1) Please refer to your paper prompt HERE, and read it very carefully. Scroll to the bottom of the prompt of the paper prompt for important questions to ask yourself when you are writing a formal research paper. This rubric details the types of things that I look for while grading your paper.
2) If you need help writing a research paper, then there are resources available to you on campus: Writing & Multiliteracy Center (WMC). Contact them here: https://www.csuci.edu/wmc/
3) For help with formatting MLA, Chicago etc. citations, visit Purdue Owl: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html
4) Your thesis statement is your contract with your reader, and it tells them the precise scope of your paper. Avoid being vague or general. Below you will see the basic components of a formal research paper.
5) Your research materials should consist of books and scholarly journal articles written by the experts in the field. You may not use blogs, Wikipedia, encyclopedias, dictionaries, Grove or Oxford Art Online, textbooks (including Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, Asian Art, etc.) and unauthorized websites. Newspaper articles are written for the general public, and therefore they are not good sources of information for formal research papers.
6) The Broome Library is a wonderful resource for doing your academic research for all of your classes at CSUCI. If you have trouble finding any of your research materials, then reach out to the librarians for help locating them at Broome Library. Here are a few very valuable resources for you:
Broome Homepage: https://library.csuci.edu
Databases A-Z: https://libguides.csuci.edu/az.php
Research Guides: https://library.csuci.edu/research/dbases-subject.htm
Journals & Newspapers: https://csu-ci.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/jsearch?vid=01CALS_UCI:JSBL&lang=en
