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

Normative theory as a threshold concept Students usually think using the scientific method because of past experiences Normative theory is significantly different because it doesn’t examine what actually exists – instead it looks at what ought to be Normative theory changes political theory because it is the only critically legitimate means of analyzing how government […]

In the prompt, it was suggested that we relate our threshold concept to college writing. I don’t see this happening at all with my concept in this paper, but if anybody has feedback on how to help make that happen, it’d be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Rough Draft

MP 3 Rough Draft I know that this draft still has a ways to go. I think my biggest place to improve upon would be specifics. I need a lot more concrete examples from the text. It was challenging for me to find lots of good examples which was slightly worrisome. I would also like […]

M.P 3 Draft

For this essay, I chose to write about the normative theory as a threshold concept. There were a couple things I struggled with though. The first was my organization of the paper. I’m not sure how to change my introduction in order to have a paragraph on the threshold concept, and I wasn’t sure how […]

Rob Oser_MP3_RD Hey guys, here’s my rough draft. A few things to look for in the paper are the conversation about Locke and how understanding his theory was similar to Hobbes.  I don’t know if I made a clear connection between the two regarding threshold concepts and transformative ideas.  Also I was a little confused […]

Olivia Long November 27, 2011 Professor Morgan English 298B Major Paper 3.1 Meyer and Land use threshold concepts to open new ways of thinking and therefore new ways of understanding. A threshold concept “can be considered as akin to a portal, opening up a new and previously  inaccessible way of thinking about something. It represents […]

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