February 23, 2010 Archives
In-class Activity
Oral Workshop
Exercise 1 is a three-page essay that demonstrates your ability to apply, analyze, and evaluate the ideas you have encountered in the readings so far, with a special focus on Chapter 10 of Havelock's The Muse learns to Write. Submit your exercise by uploading it to Turnitin.com. (CourseID 3139124, password "mediaRplural".)
Since this is a 300-level class, I will assume you already know how to come up with a clear thesis statement, how to organize your argument around a blueprint, and how to integrate brief quotations from your sources.
Remembering and understanding are important critical thinking skills; indeed, you can't go any higher unless you've got the basics. This assignment already assumes that you can identify the key points and summarize the argument found in our assigned readings, and that in our in-class and online discussions we have already hashed out what we think the readings mean.
Instead of asking you to do that low-level thinking again, this assignment asks you to focus on applying, analyzing, and evaluating.
Since this is a 300-level class, I will assume you already know how to come up with a clear thesis statement, how to organize your argument around a blueprint, and how to integrate brief quotations from your sources.
Remembering and understanding are important critical thinking skills; indeed, you can't go any higher unless you've got the basics. This assignment already assumes that you can identify the key points and summarize the argument found in our assigned readings, and that in our in-class and online discussions we have already hashed out what we think the readings mean.
Instead of asking you to do that low-level thinking again, this assignment asks you to focus on applying, analyzing, and evaluating.
Continue reading Ex 1: Of Memory and Knowledge in the Classical Era.
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