Best Writer

1) Introduce your paper. We’re studying the great ideas of Philosophy, and all of our philosophers have been included for very good reasons; your introduction should indicate your understanding of the main reason(s) for your philosopher’s inclusion, as well as what makes them worthy of our attention.
2) Summarize the key concepts (at least one; no more than three) posited and developed by that philosopher – this should include what their philosophy replaced and/or what has replaced it since, if applicable, and should show a well-rounded understanding of their work both in and of itself, as well as within the context of the overall academic study and applied practice of Philosophy.
▪ 2A) Included in your summary of their work should be topically accurate citations of and quotations from their written work that support the focus of your summary of their main ideas.
◦ 3) Discuss the possibilities of practically applying your chosen philosopher’s work to a topic within a personal, professional, or academic area of your own choosing, most often the one in which you are working in or toward currently, but it could also be an area or topic of casual interest to you.
▪ 3A) Included in your section on practical application should be at least one example of a case study or hypothetical situation in your chosen field in which the philosopher’s work could be applied, as well as a discussion of the means by which it would be applied, and, if applicable, resolved.
◦ 4) You should wrap up your term paper by summarizing and tying together the salient points of what you’ve presented in terms of the philosopher’s key concepts and potential for practical application. In most cases, this will be something of a rehashing of your introduction; in other words, tell me what you’re going to do, do it, then tell me what you just did – this is a helpful way to stretch papers to the required length.
I don’t need the whole essay written, just the first 2 parts and the last 2 parts

Here are your choices for markets to segment.
Gyms (like Las Vegas Athletic Club)
Yoga Classes in celebration of Yoga Day. (e.g., Kundalini, Yin, Bikram, etc.)
Prepared Breakfast Cereals.
First read the assignment.
Then read it again.
Next look at the two example papers and the sample of a “wrong approach” paper.
Finally pick a product category and explore what product offerings are available. Then complete your assignment.
FORMAT
All papers must be typed and may not exceed one single-spaced page (not including title sheet, tables, appendices, and citations).

Minimum .75 margins all around. Minimum 10 font in either Arial, Times New Roman, or Calibri

No soucres needed
Prepare for this assignment by reading “Practicing Perception” in Write Moves (pages 25-33).
Choose one of the activities listed in the “Your Moves” section (pages 34-35).
Draft and edit a creative work—any genre.
Word count is less important than creative energy. Instead of focusing on the number of words, try to compose something that is interesting and well-crafted, using ideas from the reading to help you.
Post your document here. Be sure to indicate which activity you chose.

After reading Bunn and Prose, you are going to engage in the applied practice of “reading as a writer”. Please follow these steps:
1 Describe the goal of “reading as a writer” (carefully used, brief citations are encouraged; the citation style for this course is APA)
2 Map your own steps of “reading as a writer”
3 Choose either the Joyce excerpt or the Lerner excerpt below and respond to the passage as a writer–remember, you are “reading to learn about writing” (p. 72, Bunn, 2011).
Excerpts:
It wasn’t her bathroom. The electric toothbrush, the hair dryer, these particular soaps—these were not her toiletries. For an instant he thought, desperately hoped, that they might belong to her mother, but there were too many discrepancies: the shower door was different, its glass frosted; now he smelled the lemon-scented gel beads in a jar atop the toilet; alien dried flowers hung from a purple sachet on the wall.
– Adam Lerner, The Topeka School
In fact right behind her Gabriel could be seen piloting Freddy Malins across the landing. The latter, a young man of about forty, was of Gabriel’s size and build, with very round shoulders. His face was fleshy and pallid, touched with colour only at the thick hanging lobes of his ears and at the wide wings of his nose. He had coarse features, a blunt nose, a convex and receding brow, tumid and protruded lips. His heavy-lidded eyes and the disorder of his scanty hair made him look sleepy. He was laughing heartily in a high key at a story which he had been telling Gabriel on the stairs and at the same time rubbing the knuckles of his left fist backwards and forwards into his left eye.
– James Joyce, “The Dead”

The Assignment
Write an essay that evaluates the success or failure of your chosen reading selection on the basis of how well it deploys specific argument strategies in its writing. The fundamental critical reading question you’re asking here of your text and then trying to answer in the form of a clear, subjective thesis formulation focused on strategy and form is this:
What are the key arguments that are being made in the piece? AND Are those arguments persuasive enough to make the piece of writing a successful argument construction?
These are the core questions you must ask and answer in this essay. Again, please use the questions on the Additional Question Sets tab on the Critical Questioning Strategies sheet in the unit (and in the Resource Center) to help you develop additional lines of inquiry to focus your thesis and analysis work – that’s why I’ve given them to you. Use whole questions or parts of several, whatever works with your source text. The idea is to find questions that are useful to you in helping to tease out patterns of argument strategy and form in your selected piece which you can then critique in a more focused manner for the essay.
The purpose of this essay is to give you some practice identifying key argument strategies and forms in a classic argument text (drawn from Chapter 25 of Practical Argument), strategies and forms that are instrumental, or not, in helping to establish the success and effectiveness of the piece. You should be drawing on the critical thinking and reading strategies as well as the key argument terminology you’ve learned from Practical Argument and the other support resources provided in the unit to help you focus your short rhetorical analysis here.
When you are finished, upload your completed essay here as a document attachment.
Starter Questions
Please use the critical reading checklist below from Practical Argument to help you begin asking more complex critical questions of the text that will yield a clear thesis position about the relative success or failure of the argument in the reading you’ve chosen based on a few key strategies you’ll isolate for us at the very start.
Questions for Critical Reading
What is the writer’s general subject?
What purpose does the writer have for presenting this argument?
What is the writer’s position?
Does the writer support ideas mainly with facts or with opinion?
What evidence does the writer present to support her or his position?
Is the evidence convincing? Is there enough evidence?
Does the writer present opposing ideas and refute them effectively?
What kind of audience does the writer seem to be addressing?
Does the writer see the audience as hostile, friendly, or neutral?
Does the writer establish himself or herself as well informed? As a fair and reasonable person?
Does the writer seem to exhibit bias? If so, how does this bias affect the argument?
Additional Considerations & Samples
Please understand what you are NOT being asked to do in this essay: the assignment is specifically not asking you to argue for or against a given position or idea in the reading you’re examining, or even take a position in any way on the ideas in the work. You’re not here to argue about the ideas – you’re here to make your own critical assessment of how well the author has composed her/his argument. You’re here to look at form and strategy, not idea. Please don’t try to refute or defend, agree or disagree with the author’s positions – that will trigger a return of your ungraded essay with a directive from me to write a different essay that mounts a clear critique of how well the arguments in the work are put together instead.
Here are a few additional question sets you might also choose to ask in your reading and then answer in your thesis work:
What kind(s) of evidence is used to support the positions the author is taking, and is it effective? Could it be more effective?
What are the main arguments in the piece? Is the reading’s thesis clear and logically laid out? Could it be more nuanced or made more complex?
Are certain kinds of appeals made (e.g. logos, ethos, pathos) and do they work well to communicate the messages of the piece to the reader? Why?
Does the author offer any alternate positions or opposing arguments to his/her own? Does the argument need that? Are opposing arguments refuted effectively?
Below are two sample argument analyses of other texts that will give you some idea of the kind of critical writing I’m looking for. Please note that these samples are shorter versions of an essay similar to the one I’ve assigned to you. You’re creating a 5 page essay, not a 3 page essay.
Paragraph Patterns
Notice the patterns in both of the samples above:
The introduction attempts to contextualize the evaluation of argument to follow by introducing the source text along with summarizing its primary focus for the reader
The thesis formulation at the end of the opening paragraph lays out a clear subjective evaluation of argument strategy and form in the source text, but not an evaluation of the ideas or positions themselves in the source text
The internal body paragraphs all follow the same pattern:
Open with a subjective argument claim that’s linked to the thesis, not a summary description of the text
Illustrate and support that subjective claim about the success or failure of the argument strategies in the work with direct textual references (that are correctly parenthetically cited) and explanation to tie the example back to the paragraph’s topic argument as well as the essay’s primary thesis
Close with a concluding statement that reiterates the main positions explored in the paragraph and transitions us to the next paragraph discussion after it
Your essay should follow these same structural patterns.
Length and Document Requirements
5 full pages (minimum) and/or 1700 words (minimum) *not including the required works cited list
12 pt double spaced text
Times font only
1″ margins on all four sides
Page numbers in the bottom right corner of each page (using the auto pagination tool in your word processing application)
Required works cited list (should be on its own page after the conclusion of the essay text and is not included in the 5 full pages and/or 1700 words minimum of essay text)
File type: DOC/DOCX only
Write in 3rd person only (she, he, it, the text, the author, etc.) and present tense throughout the essay
Cite your source text(s) with a parenthetically referenced paraphrase or direct quote at least once in every body paragraph
File Formatting
Incorrectly named files won’t receive credit, so please name them thusly:
(YOUR last name only) + (a shortened version of the assignment name), like this: SmithCritThink.docx.
Remember not to type in “doc” or “docx” manually, as your word processing application will automatically append that file type designator to your title when you save the file. Only .doc or .docx files will be accepted – please do not attach any other file types (PDF, RTF, WPS, TXT, Pages, GoogleDocs, etc.), as I will not be able to read or assign credit to them.
Works Cited List
A fully formatted works cited list is required with your final essay submission. See below for several sheets I’ve linked you to in the Resource Center module that are designed to help you construct your own correctly formatted works cited list. The full list citation for our Practical Argument text is also provided below for you to copy/paste into your own lists. Remember to fix the tabbing and spacing when you place the entry into your own list: lists should be double-spaced and all subsequent lines after the first of each new entry on the list must be tabbed in once from the left margin, not run flush left like the first line of the entry.
Note that you’ll also need to include a second full citation for the specific reading you are discussing, also from Practical Argument. The second list entry below is an example of what that second citation will look like. Note that the placement of information in the citation is somewhat different from the first entry, and it includes additional material in order to correctly cite the specific reading from the book. Please use this model to help you construct your own second citation with your self-selected reading from Practical Argument.
Works Cited
Kirszner, Laurie G., and Stephen R. Mandell. Practical Argument – A Text and Anthology. Third ed. Boston &
New York, Bedford St. Martin’s, 2017.
Swift, Jonathan. “A Modest Proposal.” Practical Argument – A Text and Anthology. Third ed. Ed. Laurie G.
Kirszner, Stephen R. Mandell. Boston & New York, Bedford St. Martin’s, 2017. 757-763.
The Bottom Line
Poorly proofread, incorrectly formatted, off topic, short or otherwise incomplete essays will be returned ungraded and assessed a late penalty for not being complete by the original assignment deadline. Late essays are accepted but are assessed a full letter grade reduction each new week they’re past due and are ineligible for the rewrite option after grading. See the Course Syllabus and Course Orientation sheets for additional details about my essay submission policies.

Examine some of the major differences and similarities of the works of Robert Park’s “Human Ecology”, Louis Wirth’s notion of “urbanism as a way of life” and Harris and Ullman’s “nature of the city.”

The pdf includes notes and strikethroughs from the Professor and I have attached the original document which will need editing as well as initial overview and guideline for assignement.

Citation is important !

What strengths and weaknesses does Hector
show? Do his weaknesses cause you to respect him less or to identify with him more?

You may refer briefly to earlier parts of the poem, if you wish, but be sure to keep the focus mainly
on the thoughts, words, and actions described in book 22.
Be sure to refer to specific speeches or actions, including at least two short quotes, with book
and line number (and title of poem) in parentheses: (Iliad 22.383-7).

Do not give too much space to
retelling the story; just give as much overall context as is needed to introduce your quotes and to
support your main points.

Many people view poverty as a circumstance of one’s own making. Consider this reasoning: Homeless people must not have worked hard enough, tried hard enough, or conformed to society enough. They did it to themselves. Is this perspective accurate, or is it just another way to separate out the worthy and the unworthy?
In this week’s resources, you hear activist Mia Birdsong examine the prevailing story society tells about poverty, how it needs to be adjusted, and how this adjustment could lead to societal change. For this Assignment, you reflect on the story of poverty that you know.
To Prepare: Watch the Mia Birdsong video listed in the Learning Resources.
By Day 7
Submit a 2- to 3-page paper in which you:
Identify two societal beliefs of the poor presented in the video.
Explain the speaker’s strategy for addressing poverty.
Apply the speaker’s strategy to a social work interaction you have had or have read about.
Determine whether you agree or disagree with the presenter’s premise, and explain why.

Annotated Bibliography Assignment
To prepare you for the next assignment, the research paper, you’ll need to do some research. One of the more useful tools in conducting research is the annotated bibliography. An annotated bibliography combines the citations found on the Works Cited page at the end of documents in MLA format with annotations about each of the sources. For this assignment, you will construct an annotated bibliography based upon the issue or problem that you have selected to focus on for the remainder of the semester.
Purpose: An annotated bibliography is an organizing tool that is helpful when working on a research project. An effective annotated bibliography is used to compile research sources in one location and provide the researcher with quick access to the information contained in each source.
Audience: This assignment should be directed at your scholarly peers, and you may assume that they have only a casual familiarity with your topic or issue.
Content/Subject: Your annotated bibliography will consist of the sources that you have deemed relevant to your topic and/or question(s) of inquiry. While you may encounter sources that are not relevant or do not fit the scope of your project while researching, for the purposes of this assignment, you will only include the ones that you find useful and relevant.
Cite the source in proper MLA format. The citations should be organized in alphabetical order by author just as in an MLA Works Cited page.
Follow with a brief annotation that summarizes the source (approx. 3-5 sentences). You may quote from the source, but do not copy and paste the abstract. Ideally, all of the annotation should be in your own words.
In 1 or 2 sentences, explain the source’s relevance and importance to your issue.
Constraints: The annotated bibliography is a fairly rigid genre. Your citations must adhere to MLA format. This will be one of the central components of the grade for this assignment. Failure to follow MLA format will harm your grade.
The annotations for each source should follow an academic style. This means that you must construct, with elevated and sophisticated language, correct grammatical sentences that effectively summarize what each source has to say. Additionally, you should explain how each source is relevant to the issue that you have selected and what it adds to your knowledge about your issue.
Specific guidelines to follow when completing this assignment are:
7-10 sources of various types (book, article, website, etc.).
At least three sources must be scholarly journal articles.
Sources focused around a narrowed issue or question of inquiry.
Adherence to MLA format for all citations.
Sources in alphabetical order according to author.
Thoughtful and complete annotations of 100-150 words.
Correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling.