Week 15


Models for CT Papers


Final Exam Study Guide



Week 14


Pascal


The Grey Monk


Prince of Verona


VOLTAIRE’S GARDEN.pdf



Week 13


Toulmin Model



Week 12


Your surrealist Q&A


Final paper assignment



Week 11


TIMECalabresi


TIMEScherer


NYRBCole



Week 10


quarterly #2 assignment


Garrett Hardin’s “Lifeboat Ethics”


Peter Singer’s “Famine, Affluence, and Morality”


Harry Frankfurt “On Bullshit” (alternative/optional):


(a) what is BS? Frankfurt’s definition and your definition

(b) how is BS different from lying?

(c) why is BS a historically recent problem?

(d) example of BS from your observation or experience



Week 9


Surrealist games


Timothy Snyder



Week 8


Nation on UCB free speech (Palumbo-Liu)


NLG Free Speech on Campus (Yoder)


Jill Lepore on campuse free speech - historical cases

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/09/flip-flopping-on-free-speech


Week 7


midterm study quide


Week 6


midterm paper assignment



Week 5


Bazelon


Smolla


Hudson



Week 4


quarterly#1 assignment


REVIEW OF MLA FORMAT:


Annotated works cited: to briefly describe your source, indicating your research process, how this source informs your critical thinking on your chosen subject and topic--


http://libguides.enc.edu/writing_basics/annotatedbib/mla

Examples of annotated works cited.


https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/03/

More examples.


On works cited:

See BibMe.org, EasyBib.com, or CitationMachine.net for automated format; also CiteMe on Facebook


Review MLA format for in-text citations and works cited 

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/05/


MLA page format

from OWL Purdue Online Writing Lab


How to cite online sources



Week 3


Study questions for in-class writing:


The True Meaning of Pictures: Directed by Jennifer Baichwal, based on still photography by Shelby Adams


What are the different points of view (POVs) represented in the film?  Why is it useful to think about Shelby Adams’ photographs from more than one POV?  How does recognition of various POVs help us to understand these photos in the context of art and the world?


Logos/reason, pathos/emotion.  In the context of Shelby Adams’ photos, discuss logos/reason and pathos/emotion.  When is the use of reason not enough?  How can emotion lead to sensationalism or distortion?  Or, to raise awareness of an untold or forgotten story? If “a picture is worth a thousand words,” what are the unstated implications of his work?


What is the role of reason in True Meaning? – fact, observation, explanation, analysis


Of emotion? – empathy, human connection, sensationalism, exploitation, distortion


Why do these photos matter / do not matter? Who cares? Why?


Visual rhetoric.  According to Barnet & Bedau, how can visual images be presented as argument?  What can pictures do that words cannot? See examples p.150 (flag-draped coffins), 171-172 (Boston fire). And what about “eye witness” news (cell phone video of Oscar Grant shooting on BART, of Eric Garner “I can’t breathe”)?  Political cartoons (Charlie Hebdo, Doonesbury, op-ed page of dailies)?   



Critical Reading (CR) Panels


Candide (CAND) Panels



Week 2


Globe and Mail article on Shelby Adams



Week 1


syllabus