Choose one of the essays from the list, below, that you think has something interesting to say about teaching and/or learning.

Using the terminology and key concepts of this course (to the extent you reasonably can),

(1) In one sentence, state "the main point" (= the thesis, a proposition about how the world works) the essay is making,as you see it.

(2) Very briefly, explain how the essay is constructed, as you see it. (For instance, how is it organized? What are thesourcesof the sfs the writer has composed?)

(3) Here is the heart of the assignment: Make some interesting and useful connections between the essay you've chosen and some other works that we've read in this course. Particularly, draw connections between what the essays have to say (to the reader) concerning teaching and/or learning.

How many "other works"? No fewer than two, no more than four.Any essay listed in the Course Description or handed out in class (includine writing by students) is a valid choice as an "other work." See me if you need another copy of a handout.

(4) Make some interesting and useful connections between the essay you've chosen and some of your own experiences as a learner..

Write for an audience of intelligent adults--college students and college graduates, say. Assume they havenotread the published essay you've selected.

Key Advice:

(a) Your paper should be full of very-specific sfs--about the essays you are discussing, about your own experiences, about whatever.

(b)Quotationis very important in writing of this sort. Quote from the essays you are discussing to support the general claimsyouare making about the essays. Cite the page number(s) for each important quotation. Quote and cite the texts in our anthology (not some other edition of the essays).

(c) Organize your paper and make your pattern of organization easily seen by the reader. 

(d) Take hand written notes on a sheet of paper on each essay you will discuss in this paper. Writing a paper like this without such notes is folly.