Our first formal essay is looking at issues of freedom, domestic confinement, anger, revenge, murder, and mental illness. In this essay, students will have a choice as to what topic or topics they want to tackle.
Purpose: This assignment is designed to get students employing critical thinking skills in relation to human emotions and our own feelings of isolation.
Objectives
This activity is designed to support the following Learning Objectives:
Demonstrate composition skills through both in-class (written with time constraints) and out-of-class essay assignments (at least 4 essays required for a total of 6,000 to 8,000 words/24 pages); at least three of the four must be formal, out-of-class essays.
Develop and state clearly a unifying thesis or proposition that examines a line of inquiry on an appropriately limited topic.
Select examples, details, and other evidence to support or validate the thesis and other generalizations and integrate them into an organized, coherent sequence that clearly and logically develops an argument.
Employ principles of inductive and deductive logic to support and develop ideas in written assignments that reflect causality and causal skepticism, analysis, inference, and synthesis of sources and concepts.
Compose essays using precise diction that communicates unambiguously, demonstrating maturity of style and thought and a sense of audience.
Use appropriate research techniques to produce at least two analytic research papers.
Examine and evaluate appropriate college-level resources through research in support of a productive research question.
Integrate source material into paper using summary, paraphrase, and direct quotation, a system of note-taking and documentation and appropriately documenting sources (using MLA or another universally known system of documentation).
