This is fun
Jul. 9th, 2024 11:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareina Now that we've finished our 10 week series of SCA stuff every weekend, and the ladt of our house guests departed yesterday, I am buckling down and focusing on my summer course, Forntid i Norden. Today I recorded myself reading another chapter in one of the books, and one of the papers (all my recordings of the class literature are in Google Drive if you want to listen), and then I looked at the instructions for the take-home exam, which were published recently (while we were travelling, which is why I didn't look before today).
I was delighted to see that question number one was to write 500 to 700 words on an artefact type that is typical for one of the cultures covered by the course. Since the course covers everything from the arrival of humans in Scandinavia after the ice melted through to the Viking Age I, of course, chose Viking Age soapstone cooking pots, and started writing directly. By the time I had addressed all of the sub-questions the teacher included for this part of the assignment I has written 800 words! This doesn't include the reference list. Oops. Tomorrow I will try to trim it down to under 700 words.
The other question will take a bit more effort, as it focuses on archaeological find types instead of artefacts, so I will have to do reading, rather than just consulting my previous research to see which sources I should cite for what bits of info.
I really don't think this counts as cheating. While I have drawn upon information I already knew, I hadn't previously thought about it in quite the way the teacher asked us to look at it, and I really enjoyed writing this. Hopefully that joy will carry over to the other half of the exam.
I was delighted to see that question number one was to write 500 to 700 words on an artefact type that is typical for one of the cultures covered by the course. Since the course covers everything from the arrival of humans in Scandinavia after the ice melted through to the Viking Age I, of course, chose Viking Age soapstone cooking pots, and started writing directly. By the time I had addressed all of the sub-questions the teacher included for this part of the assignment I has written 800 words! This doesn't include the reference list. Oops. Tomorrow I will try to trim it down to under 700 words.
The other question will take a bit more effort, as it focuses on archaeological find types instead of artefacts, so I will have to do reading, rather than just consulting my previous research to see which sources I should cite for what bits of info.
I really don't think this counts as cheating. While I have drawn upon information I already knew, I hadn't previously thought about it in quite the way the teacher asked us to look at it, and I really enjoyed writing this. Hopefully that joy will carry over to the other half of the exam.