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

I mentioned in my proposal that I would write from Goldman’s perspective because I disagree with her more, and that makes me more able to think critically about her ideas and stuff. I was worried that if I wrote from Socrates’ perspective, my way of thinking would be too close enough to his, that I’d […]

When I started my paper, I knew that I would be writing more heavily from the Plato perspective than the Goldman, because honestly I find Goldman to be overbearing and a little annoying. However, I do try to give both sides a fair shot at expressing their beliefs. I decided to replace the Crito/Socrates scene […]

I started writing my dialogue knowing that Goldman would comment on Socrates’ assertion that citizens are obligated to die for the government. I knew Emma Goldman would have strong criticisms for Socrates and his beliefs, but would she be outraged, or is that too strong? “Offended” came to mind shortly after “outraged” was cast aside, […]

When writing my dialogue, it was surprisingly easy for me to come up with lots of content for Goldman and Socrates’s conversation. I decided to base a majority of the debate on their opposing beliefs about obligation to the government, to the people and to the gods. I really wanted my dialogue to sound natural. […]

When I first started writing my rough draft, I lacked a sufficient intro and buildup to the conversation of Socrates and Goldman. My main idea would be Socrates essentially attacking Goldman’s idea of anarchism and society without a government. Goldman would question how it would be legitimate for citizens to follow governmental rule and laws. […]

When I first started to write the my first draft I was unsure on what I could use for dialogue. I looked through Goldman’s and Plato’s texts and went through it and picked out points that they would agree or disagree on. After finding several points in each of their works, I began to think […]

The first step I took to produce my draft was to brainstorm, to contemplate what it meant to write conversationally.  When I wrote my paper proposal, it was not at all what I actually wrote in the end, it entailed similar thoughts, but ultimately structurally it was entirely different.  The thesis that I wrote in […]

In my proposal, I was way too broad. I had wanted to focus on Goldman’s central idea of freedom from all authority. Later in the proposal I had thrown out some ideas to maybe focus on, and one of which was religion. After getting my feedback, I decided to write the dialogue on whether or […]

Tim Carter English 298b 10/25/11 Paige Morgan MP1 Process When I first sat down to write to write my paper I knew I wanted to do a dialogue and I knew that I wanted to try and make it as real as possible (obviously). I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted Goldman and Socrates to […]

The way I went about this paper was by addressing my own personal complaints about Socrates’ and Goldman’s argument. With Socrates, I disagreed with his statements about tacit consent and owing the country you were born in since you were raised there. Goldman’s argument was more logistical. Since humans create government, there must have been […]