{"id":773,"date":"2011-11-18T11:48:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T19:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paigemorgan.net\/teaching\/engl298b\/?p=773"},"modified":"2011-11-18T11:52:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T19:52:32","slug":"friday-announcements-threshold-concepts-essay-mp3-week9blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paigemorgan.net\/teaching\/engl298b\/?p=773","title":{"rendered":"Friday Announcements: Threshold Concepts Essay, MP3, Week9Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Upcoming readings:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is the essay that you’ll need in order to write the third major paper for this course:<\/p>\n

“Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge: Linkages to Ways of Thinking and Practising Within the Disciplines,” by Jan Meyer, and Ray Land<\/a><\/p>\n

In class today I was referring to it as a 14 page essay — in fact, 3.5 pages are references and front matter, so it’s more like 10.5 pages.<\/p>\n

We’ll be talking about this essay on Monday and Wednesday of next week. (Actually, we’ll be talking about it all through the rest of the quarter, but I mention it now because it’s our only reading for next week.)<\/p>\n

The final reading we’ll have this quarter is a short story (approx 2800 words) by Ursula LeGuin, titled “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, (story at link) \u00a0<\/a>which we’ll be reading and discussing specifically so that you have the opportunity to practice identifying political issues\/messages\/arguments that appear in fiction. As you’re developing ideas about threshold concepts in political theory, you might ask yourself: how would I have reacted to this story before I began this class? What would I have seen as its meaning and message? How does what I have learned so far in this quarter affect the way I am interpreting this story?<\/p>\n

We will be discussing “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” on Monday after Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

Major Paper #3<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here<\/a> are the instructions for the third paper (now with timeline included).<\/p>\n

Week9blog<\/strong><\/p>\n

This blog post is meant to be useful for your third and final paper. In it, I’d like you to think back over the quarter and identify, as specifically as you can, what aspects of political theory and\/or college writing have been the most difficult, or the easiest to grasp. (I recommend making sure you describe at least one easy, and one difficult aspect). You need to try and describe that aspect\/concept\/idea as clearly as you can, so that others can grasp it. You also need to try and identify why <\/strong>you think that this idea\/concept\/aspect was difficult for you to grasp.<\/p>\n

You do not need to have read the “Threshold Concepts” essay before writing this post, nor do you need to frame the things you talk about in the language used by Meyer and Land (threshold concepts or troublesome knowledge). <\/strong>In fact, the ideas you’re describing may be clearer for your classmates if you don’t<\/em>\u00a0try to frame them in terms of Meyer and Land, yet. Think of this post as adding to the dataset of the blog.<\/p>\n

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