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Professors often tell their students to think critically, but they less often tell them how they can go about doing this. Thinking critically, however, is a skill that is developed over time and, like most stills, gets better with practice.
Moreover, developing an analytical approach is one of the most important things that should be learned in university. By working through a series of reading and writing assignments, students taking this course will learn a toolkit of practices that can be applied to crucially evaluating things like texts, movies, images, and so on.
At the end of the term, these skills will be applied in writing a final paper. Students who take this class should expect to do a fair amount of writing one to two full pages per week, plus two papers , to engage in class discussions and to present their ideas and their writing to the class.
The class meets once a week for a seminar discussion. Attendance and participation in class are mandatory and graded.
Students are expected to read the textbook, hand in all of the assignments, participate actively in the discussions, and to submit two papers the second of which will be a revision of the first. Each week there is a reading assignment from the textbook.
We will not discuss all of it in detail, but you should do the reading completely. The important thing is to understand enough about the reading to be able to do the assignments.
We will also do some of the reading together in class. In this class, we will focus on giving each other feedback and criticism. Criticism is difficult both to give and to accept.
We will focus on giving constructive criticism. This means instead of focusing on what is wrong with an argument or a piece of writing, we will focus on how it can be improved. When you are giving another student feedback on their idea or their work, first mention what you think is good about it, and then mention ways in which you think it can be made better.
Do the exercise for one of the examples they suggest. If possible, bring a copy of the material you used to class.
Follow the example given on pp. In particular, after you have done all five steps of the method, write a few paragraphs explaining what you found. So, you should write one paragraph at step four, and then two more more at the end, summarizing how The Method worked, and what you found.
Please turn in the magazine cover, or a copy, with your assignment. The writing guide offers a book-length treatment of analysis, a form of thinking and writing required in virtually all college courses.
The writing guide is accompanied by a thematically-arranged collection of readings and images-material for students like you to A thoughtful re-ordering of material first focuses on the aims and methods of analysis. Next the student is challenged to analyze the evidence, build a better thesis statement, and finally, evolve the thesis- the conceptual core of Writing Analytically, Second Edition.
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