1: Conferences are scheduled as followed.
All conferences will be held in Padelford A-13. (This room is bigger than my office, and is thus a better space. It’s just down the hall from my office — I’ll have a sign on my door reminding people. Because this room is shared by the English Department, it’s important that you arrive on time, ready to sit down and begin.)
Monday: 9:15-10:15 a.m: Tim , Mitchell, Katie, Rob
Monday, 12:00-1:00 a.m.: Emmett, Josh, Alex, Olivia
Monday, 3:00-4:00 p.m.: Ishmael, Damen, Andrew C., Kiernan
Tuesday, 9:30-10:30: Sidney, Andrew S., Nicole, Jerri
Tuesday, 1:30-2:30: Catherine, Cara, Zach, Brent
The conference guidelines are up on the Handouts page. Remember to upload your papers to Catalyst, and to a blog post tagged mp1roughdraft.
2: I know you’ve got a lot going on during Week 5, so I’d like the blogging assignment to be useful to you. Therefore, I’m giving you two options. Choose one.
- Provide us with a snapshot, in detail, of the process you used to produce your first draft. By detail, I mean something like: “I knew at the start that I wanted to have Goldman accuse Socrates of cowardice regarding men vs. laws, specifically, that his statement was a cop-out to avoid admitting that he had lost the trial. I worked on that scenario and it was going great, but I realized that it felt like a dead-end, and I wasn’t sure what to do afterwards. Should I make it the end of my dialogue? Or, could I figure out something else I wanted to have them talk about, and then work on making a bridge between the two parts of the conversation? If you choose this option, it is likely to be useful for MP3. Think of it as though you are a scientist who is conducting an observation on the way that students write papers. Don’t worry about evaluating your process, or explaining what it all means — just try to describe it.
- Your second paper is going to answer the question “Why do governments exist?”, using Locke and Hobbes. (You will be developing your own answer to this question (not just repeating their reasons that governments have to exist), but your answer must engage their texts, i.e., it is not about current events.) Many of you have commented on the challenge of the college reading load, so, use this blog post to identify ideas and specific passages in either Locke’s or Hobbes’s texts (and/or from Prof. DiStefano’s lecture) that you think might be especially important for answering this question. Think of this option as crowdsourcing the preliminary research for the paper, and cooperating in order to combat the difficulty of the reading load. You may choose either Locke or Hobbes — but know that you’ll be using both of them when you write your papers.
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