ENGL 298 B: Intermediate Writing Social Sciences   Autumn 2011, University of Washington

Joshua Spiezle ENGL 298 Paige Morgan 1 December 2011 Threshold Concepts The reasoning for appointment of governing power in Hobbes’ “Leviathan” and Locke’s “Second Treatise of the Government” provide backing to their respective legitimacy.  However, through the bias in American culture, the understanding of the legitimacy in Hobbes’ sovereign appears to be unreasonable.  In the […]

This paper is quite a bit different than the others we have been asked write this quarter. When you are reading my paper I would like you thoughts on the following and anything else that you see that I need to change for my final draft.  After reading my paper do you think that my […]

I feel much better about the draft than I felt about my outline, because I feel like I have better grasp on the prompt now. My only concern is that for all three examples, I feel like I am phrasing the analysis the same way.MP3

So I know that I don’t use many quotes, and that’s because I really wanted to get my own ideas out so that you guys really have a good chance to critique and help me move forward with this essay. Not to worry, I plan on adding a lot more quotes to back up my […]

Thresholdconceptrough I feel bad, but my rough draft isn’t really what I want to write my paper on. I spent a large portion in the law library to finish my paper and while I was writing my conclusion I realized that I wanted to change my paper to make my threshold concept more specific and […]

ENGL 298 MP 3 Rough Draft I feel like I have a pretty grasp of my threshold concept. The things that I worry about are my organization and clarity. I am not sure if I make sense to my readers so I would like to have some sort of feedback on that. I am not […]

For my third paper, I’m looking to tie my three ideas into one. Paige suggested that examining inequality was the most compelling of the three and I was wondering which one you thought was, and why.   (Also, sorry I botched the attachment, I’m just copy and pasting it at this point)   Andrew Sweeney […]

MP3 I wrote my paper about the threshold concept of normativity. I used Hobbes as a reference that helped me comprehend the idea of normativity and showed that the troublesome knowledge accompanying normativity are alien and tacit knowledge. I feel that once I understood normativity, I was able to understand political theory on a much […]

cmc16_mp3 For this paper, I’m having a hard time finding where I could insert information from the blog posts. I know Paige recommended that we use the blogs as evidence, but I’m not sure where I could put them in and still make them fit. And for that matter, I’m not sure which blog post […]