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CRD 20: Food Systems, Fall 2018
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Exam Question
There are three components of the exam question:
1. Broadly outline and reflect on your view of the food system and what changes you have experienced in your competency self-assessments. Consider the following questions: How have you changed? How do you relate to the food system differently as a result of what you have learned and experienced? Be sure to use systems concepts to elaborate your argument about the connection between self and broader systems.
2. Identify an issue or problem in the food system that you feel is meaningful and important. The issue or concept should be based on lecture, lab, and/or readings (e.g., obesity, hunger, concentration, declining family farms). Briefly explain this issue and the underlying causes and/or effects based on one theoretical lens.
3. Compare and contrast the following three approaches within the alternative food movement:
(a) local food systems,* (b) food justice, and (c) food sovereignty. Your comparison should revolve around evaluating each approach’s potential to address your identified issue in the food system.
* Consider local food systems as conceptually including for community food systems, regional food systems, civic agriculture, and related concepts.
Deadlines
· Your outline is due by 11.00 p.m., Nov. 30. Only the professor can approve outlines.
· Your essay is due on Canvas at 11:00 p.m., Dec. 11. There is no in-class final on this date.
Page limits
Your outlines should be about 2-4 pages. Your essay should be 8-10 pages (maximum of 2,500 words), double-spaced, and in a 12-point, Times New Roman.
Grade
The Final Exam is worth 20% of your course grade.
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Exam Format
The final exam is a take-home exam. I expect you to prepare a detailed outline answering each component of the question by synthesizing material from lecture, lab, readings, and your own ideas. The outline and essay breakdown by content should approximate the following: 1/3 reading, 1/3 lecture and lab work, and 1/3 original thinking and analysis. Treat audio-visual material from the class as having the same value as reading assignments.
Your outlines should include a thesis, an outlined body, and a conclusion. Be sure to cite your sources for all the information you use (see your Lab Manual on how to cite in this class). These outlines and essays will be assessed according to a rubric that will be shared with you soon. Feel free to check with me about expectations for approval.
Your outline must be approved as adequate by your professor. If you have your outline approved early you can write and turn in your essay early for feedback. If your outline is not approved by the outline approval deadline, you will be assigned an exam question by the professor that is due the next class session and will lose 30% of your exam grade. I encourage you to use the Student Academic Success Center to improve your outlining and writing skills for the exams and other assignments (see Resource Access assignment).
Using Your Time and Resources Wisely
Everything we do in class, including in lecture and lab, and all of our assignments and readings outside of class, can help you create your outlines to answer the exam questions. I suggest the following actions below as a helpful guide.
You first need to understand what the question is asking. Do this piece by piece. What specific actions must you perform (what verbs are used)? What do all of the terms and concepts mean? Are there some words or parts of the question that you don’t understand? If so, you will need to ask about it in class or in office hours, or use other resources to help you understand. Other students will benefit from your questions, so feel free to ask.
Start making your outlines as soon as possible. Over the next weeks, work on them a little bit after each lecture session, either on your own, in groups, or during office hours with me, the TAs, or the tutors. Your outlines cannot be produced easily in one sitting, so I suggest that you add onto them and revise them from now until you turn them in for approval (see “The writing process: learning from experienced academic writers” in the Lab Manual). You should view them as “living outlines” that document your answer to the question, even as it shifts with new connections, experiences, information, and understandings.
Use the exam question as a guide for your readings. I suggest that you ask the following questions about each of your readings: How can this reading help me answer each component of the exam question? Does it provide specific concepts, explanations, and/or information that will be useful? Does it make an argument that is useful, one that I can argue against, or one that I can build on? Does it provide evidence for an argument that I want to make? Add these thoughts and connections to your outlines after you complete each reading (I tend to write memos to
myself on the first page of readings that capture everything of use in it). This incremental building is very helpful and helps prevent being overwhelmed which often results from trying to do it all at once.
Get feedback on your outlines early and often. Use office hours and class sessions to test ideas or to help you with anything with which you are having difficulty. Your instructor, TAs, tutors, and classmates are resources that, when used wisely, can help immensely with your responses to the exam questions.
I urge students to keep in mind that there is usually more than one right answer to the essay question. This does not mean, however, that there are no wrong answers. Additionally, there is more than one way to effectively organize an essay and argument, but there is also such a thing as poor organization. Getting feedback will help with both of these issues. Remember, the many weeks you have available for outline preparation are very helpful when used wisely.
In terms of turning your outlines into a solid essay, you can spend as much time as you want, but I recommend 1.5 to 5 hours. The better your outline, the less time you will need to spend writing, since you will have already refined the most difficult pieces, you will have already organized how they fit together, and you will have your citations all in order. If you work very hard for 1.5 hours, you can create a great essay from a great outline. If your outline is not stellar, or if you work more slowly or you want to work on revisions and wording, taking more time to write the essay is a good idea.
