- Critical Thinking and Writing (EG1413) Critique
- Critical Thinking and Writing (EG1413) Position Paper
- Biochemistry (LSM1401) Essay
- Biochemistry (LSM1401) Short-Answer Questions
- Great Idea in Contemporary Physics (GEK1510) Essay between 5000-9000 words.
Item 1 literarily tests how well you criticise the article which is written by a gay author. Oops, no personal attack since that would be fallacy. It is pretty much completed.
Item 2 is about Saving Gaia. It harks back at the useless assemblage of writings that is produced over the 8 "fruitful" months for PW in JC1. I wonder whether any suggestion we make would make the Earth a better place (Gaia is Earth in Greek by the way). It is sort of a group work, and we have barely started on data-mining.
Item 3 is practically a feat of squeezing so much information in response to two central questions in 1000 words. The essay was soo overflowing with words that even after several attempts of succinct rephrasing, I had to resort to omitting words like "the" and "a". Thank god it is just 997 words in total. (Maybe I should add, "No more essay" as a three-word remark to the lecturer?)
Item 4 has not revealed by the lecturer for the time being and this sets me thinking on how short a short-answer should be. Are ten words too many?
Item 5 is what you call "Mission-Nearly-Impossible" when you have to write that much for questions like "What is a photon?" Maybe I should go into unraveling the origin of the word "photon", which is in Greek, and from there, talk about Greek culture, and then, Greek mythology, and then, Disney Hercules, and then, media industry and finally, the up-and-coming Wall-E. Should be enough for 5000 words, eh?
So much for now. Adios!
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