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Class 10 Notes

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Preliminary Business

  • Upcoming readings and assignments: see Schedule
    • Wednesday's reading assignments.
    • Get started reading the novel, Thomas Pynchon' The Crying of Lot 49
      (Read at to page 88 by Friday's class if possible. If not, a minimum is the first two chapters, pp. 1-30.)
  • Midterm exam: Friday, May 5th (50-minutes, in class)
    • Exam on readings in the course to date. The exam is more or less "factual" or "objective." It is designed to see if students recognize and comprehend key ideas, specifics, and other material in the readings. It will also include some questions specific to material or comments the professor presented in lecture (i.e., "you had to be there"). The exam is designed to reward students who regularly keep up with readings and attend lectures and sections.
    • There will be four sections of the exam:
      1. Short-answer -- Questions will ask you to name (or fill in the blank) with key concepts, characters, names, key phrases, etc.
      2. Multiple-choice
      3. Identification -- Questions will ask you to identify authors of key or representative passages in works. Full credit will be awarded for the full name of an author, correctly spelled (middle initials not required).  One point off for being able to give the last name only.  (Note: this rule obviously does not apply in the case of any authors known only by a single name.)
      4. Bonus section for extra credit (multiple-choice format) -- Questions will be based on the professor's lectures. (E.g., "In explaining [a particular idea], the professor did A, B, C, or D.")
    • Works that will not be the basis of Identification questions. (These works are histories, surveys, technical guides, and similar material, and thus not memorable for their own sake.) However, the major events, concepts, facts, etc. these works cover--especially if emphasized in the professor's lectures--are fair game for short-answer or multiple-choice questions:
      • Paul E. Ceruzzi, A History of Modern Computing
      • Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray, Computer: A History of the Information Machine
      • Richard T. Griffiths, "From ARPANET to World Wide Web"
      • National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), "Beginner's Guide to HTML," Part I 
  • For students who have an unavoidable scheduling conflict for the day of the midterm exam:
    • Be sure your TA knows about it.
    • Directly contact Meg Wilson, Instructional Program Assistant for the English Dept. (SH 3431), who is assisting in arranging alternative exam times/locations. Meg's contact info is: 805-893-7489   mwilson@hfa.ucsb.edu 

 

 

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