RUBRIC FOR EXAMS The aim of each exam is to give you an opportunity to express your own thoughts and go deeper into the course material. This exam assumes you have heard every lecture, read every assignment and participated in every discussion. As you integrate the ideas of this class, push yourself to explore your newly emerging thoughts. This is not a research paper. Additional quotations will not aid your score. It is an integration paper to measure what you have learned thus far. It is a expository paper to hone and deepen your own original thoughts and expression.. Choose one essay and write a 5-7 page, double-spaced response to the numbered question. It is not necessary to copy and paste the question (that only takes up space), just write the question # you are answering. Points will be added to your score to demonstrate you have integrated the course material. Simple citations are fine. Use citations like: Quotations from the authors (Ramadan, p. 70) A clear, one-or-two sentence thesis with cohesive, supporting facts, ideas or details Points will be deducted for run-on sentences poor grammar misspelling redundancy the books required for this course are: Cosgrove, Rabbi Elliot (editor). Jewish Theology In Our Time. (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2010). Hanh, Thich Nhat. The Heart of the Buddha’s Teachings. (New York: Harmony Books, 2015). Hellwig, Monika. Understanding Catholicism (second edition). (New York: Paulist Press, 2002). Ramadan, Tariq. Introduction to Islam (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017).