The criteria below is what Professor Arnold will use when grading your exams. The viewpoints you present in your writing must be clearly conceived and well argued. Your writing style should be straight-forward, easy to read and should be clearly related to the issues you wish to address. Topic sentences at the beginning of each paragraph are helpful in establishing the issue and argument for the reader at the outset. Engagement with the material.
Entries are to be related to the reading material.
They are not reviews of what has been stated in the book but are your critical analysis of the reading. Avoid direct quotes. An analysis of the issues discussed in the course become clearer the closer your writing is to the texts used in class. Interpretation of religious phenomena requires that you come to some meaningful relationship with your object of study. This is one of the defining characteristics of creativity.