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This course uses Canvas and Turnitin for some components of required assignments. PSYC 300W Critical Analysis of Issues in Psychology Tutorial and Assignment Handbook Fall 2023 Written work for this course will be submitted to Turnitin, a third party service licensed for use by SFU. Turnitin is used for originality checking to help detect plagiarism. Students will be required to create an account with Turnitin, and to submit their work via that account, on the terms stipulated in the agreement between the student and Turnitin. This agreement includes the retention of your submitted work as part of the Turnitin database. Any student with a concern about using the Turnitin service may opt to use an anonymous identity in their interactions with Turnitin. Students who do not intend to use Turnitin in the standard manner must notify the instructor at least two weeks in advance of any submission deadline. In particular, it is the responsibility of any student using the anonymous option (i.e., false name and temporary e-mail address created for the purpose) to inform the instructor such that the instructor can match up the anonymous identity with the student. 1

2 Psychology 300W Tutorial and Assignment Handbook In addition to the lectures, this course includes small tutorials designed to offer students instruction in the writing process, and to develop critical thinking skills through the practice of writing. Tutorials will include instruction regarding the in-class writing assignments and critical readings evaluations, and details on how to write your term paper. The components of the course are outlined below (same as in the syllabus). In brief, they include: Critical Readings Evaluations (CREs best 6/8) 40% Weekly In-class Writing 10% Term paper (several components): 50% Exploratory paper 5% Peer-Review process 10% First Submission 15% Final Submission & Responses 15% Review Responses (2.5% x 2) 5% TOTAL 100% Critical readings evaluations (CREs) and Weekly In-class Writing: A major goal of the lecture responses and the critical readings evaluations is to get you thinking in a critical way about the information being presented in lecture and in the readings. For both the lecture responses and the critical readings evaluations, we will be looking for evidence that you have been thinking seriously and critically about the issues. We want to see arguments! Weekly In-class Writing (lecture responses/free-writes): The format of these assignments is a five-minute focused writing task done in lecture. This assignment will help you develop and clarify your own ideas about the material, and stimulate thought about the concepts that we are studying. Your task is to explore your reactions to the lecture as fully as possible within the brief period of time provided. We encourage you to “think aloud on paper,” without being concerned about spelling, organization or grammar. You can write anything that comes to mind, whether it is a question, something that you had not thought about before or how the way you thought about a topic has changed given the material covered in lecture. We are interested in encouraging you to think critically about the issues, to ask questions and to question answers. You may find this task difficult at first but with practice you should find this a useful tool to use whenever you are facing a new idea, or need to clarify and focus your own thoughts. The in-class free-writes are an example of “low stakes” writing:

3 Low-stakes writing helps students involve themselves actively in the ideas or subject matter of a course. ........ Low-stakes writing helps students find their own language for the issues of the course. ....... Frequent low-stakes writing improves high-stakes writing ....... Low-stakes writing helps us understand how student minds are working ....... There's a special application of low-stakes writing to math and science courses – and to problem solving in general. (Elbow & Sorcinelli, in Svinicki & McKeachie, 2011, pp. 215-216) The lecture responses will be handed personally to your TA at the end of lecture before you leave class (or if on-line, will be submitted to a Canvas assignment drop that will be made available briefly), and will be worth a total of 5% of the course grade. If you do them all and engage seriously with the material, you can reasonably expect to get full credit for these assignments. You can miss one free-write and still get full credit. Your free-writes must include your first and last names and your student number in order to receive credit. I cannot award credit to anonymous assignments! No exceptions. As described in class, the free-writes involve writing non-stop for five minutes. The TAs and I participate in these exercises too, and we have a good idea how much one can reasonably be expected to write in five minutes. As students continue to test the limits, you should assume that if you have not written at least 150 words of reflection on the lecture, you probably didn't spend five minutes writing, and shouldn't expect to get credit. Similarly, you cannot adequately respond to a lecture you were not substantially present for, and so you might not receive credit for a free-write if you are substantially late or otherwise miss a significant portion of a class. These marks are for showing up and reflecting on the subject matter. Critical readings evaluations (CREs): Almost week of the semester (see Course Calendar) by 11:59pm on the Sunday night before the lecture, you are required to write a commentary based on the readings for that week, to submit it to Turnitin and to upload it to Canvas. The purpose of this task is to stimulate thinking about issues, questions and problems raised by your study of the assigned readings. You will be making and defending claims. There will be eight critical readings evaluations (CREs) assignments over the course of the semester (plus an optional, practice assignment). We will count the best six of these eight assignments, worth 40% toward your final grade. (For most students, this means that the first two official assignments will not count.) Late critical readings evaluations, including late submissions to Turnitin , will be penalized one mark per calendar day late and will not be accepted after 7 days (one week) beyond the due date. Although TAs will be giving substantial feedback on the first three CREs, TAs will not provide feedback on CREs that are late. If you miss out on the TA feedback on the first three critical readings evaluations, it is unlikely that you will do well on the subsequent weekly assignments. We will allow each student to have one CRE assignment be up to one day late without penalty, to reflect the fact that “things happen.” Note that you must claim this extension

4 from your TA before the time your CRE is due. Included in your CRE submission should be: 1. A brief summary of the key points brought up for you in the readings (first paragraph), and then: 2. Three seperate theses/claims with a supporting argument for each (in three paragraphs). Your claims might involve theoretical issues, concerns about the conclusions that the authors drew in light of evidence from other sources, or broader implications of the readings. (Issues of methodology are not normally useful.) Obviously, simply listing three points will not suffice! Instead, we are looking for well-reasoned and supported arguments . We are looking for depth of thought here – superficial treatments are unlikely to earn high marks! Your TA will make her or his particular expectations on this clear in tutorial. ( Note: Different TAs are allowed to stress different aspects of writing differently. I am absolutely fine with it!) Each submission should be a maximum of 600 words (approximately two pages), and should include your word-processor's word-count. Papers of more than 600 words will be penalized. Papers of substantially fewer than 600 words will be considered on the things they could have said and didn't. Please note, if you have taken the course before , and if any lectures are repeated from the last time you took the course, you may not re-use anything from your earlier assignments. Doing so without permission constitutes academic dishonesty. CREs will be marked out of 10. The following are the general criteria by which the reading summaries/ commentaries will be evaluated: • Summary of key points is relevant, accurate, succinct and clear • Evidence and depth of thinking • Comments, analyses, and arguments are insightful and well-structured • Organization, clarity (grammar, sentence structure, coherence, etc)

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