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In-class Essay: George Orwell's 1984 & Michael Radford's Film Adaptation

• The timed writing is being monitored by Proctorio Secure Exam Proctor. You will be prompted to download it to your computer, which is why I told you a while back that your computer would need a minimum of 2GB RAM free.
• Follow the directions that Proctorio provides. It will provide the access code to you; I do not have access to it, so it will not help to contact me. Just be patient through the process of getting set up. 
• You will then have up to two hours and fifteen minutes to develop an essay response to the prompt (in "Questions").
• You must first scan your entire work area near your computer and the entire room SLOWLY, allowing the web camera to see every area around you. Show the required assigned edition of 1984 as well as your ONE page only of notes, if you brought one to use. Failure to do so will result in a 0 on the assignment. Disabling the web camera or the microphone at any stage during the timed writing will lead to a 0 on the assignment.
• Do NOT use any external program such as Google Docs to write the essay. Simply type your response to the prompt right in the field where the essay prompt is located. You will click the "Questions" tab at the top of the page within the Quiz in order to access the prompt. Then, once you're done or before time expires, whichever comes first, copy what you wrote so that you may then submit it also to the assignment below the quiz, indicated for Turnitin.com. The essay will not be read if it is not also submitted to Turnitin, and it will earn a 0.
• You must quote directly from appropriate areas from the assigned edition of the novel. Also cite from appropriate areas of the film adaptation. Cite in MLA format. For long quoted passages, use ellipsis points as a time saver. 
• You do not need to have a Works Cited page.
• Be sure that you have a thesis statement that is appropriate to the prompt and that focuses the essay, and that you organize the essay clearly in support of the thesis.
• Remember that comparisons and contrasts are just part of a strategy used to support a main point; the main point of the comparisons and contrasts should be reflected in a thesis statement.
• Include a title for the essay.
• The points that you make must reflect your own thinking about the film adaptation, not on what others have said about it. Using the ideas/words of others without acknowledging them properly is plagiarism and will result in an F or 0, depending on the degree of plagiarism, and administrative action. You may not use sources such as SparkNotes and CliffsNotes since it is your response to the novel and the film that I am interested in, not the responses of others. 
  
• Click on  the "Questions" tab above for the essay prompt itself.
• Once you complete the essay here, you must then submit it to your class section of 

Turnitin.com Submission of Essay #3 (Timed Writing on 1984)

It must be submitted there within half an hour of your submission of the essay here to this assignment.