Other Question
You visit your friend’s house who has invited you for dinner and a movie. You arrive early and she is not home, and being the diligent student that you are, you pull out the text The Moral Life and begin reading as you wait outside the front door. When your friend arrives, she asks what you are reading. “My textbook for my ethics course…” you begin. “Ethics?!?!” she exclaims. “What can you learn about ethics in a class? I know good from bad, right from wrong, good from evil. No textbook can teach me otherwise!”
You begin to respond, “Ethics has to do with critical thinking and…..”
Your response to your friend is your think piece for this unit. (Begin with this sentence and complete the think piece)
If you quote the book (only very short quotes – like one or two short sentences at the most), please be sure to cite it — this is fine: “Melville is cool,” (pg. 55, TML). – note: not an actual quote!
PLEASE NOTE THAT NO OUTSIDE SOURCES ARE TO BE USED ON ANY WRITING ASSIGNMENT IN THIS COURSE. My reason for this is that all students should have the same material to read and ponder as you write your assignments and take the quizzes. Each student brings in different experiences into the course, but during the course itself, we will focus on the texts that everyone will read together!
You may type the post in word processing program (like Word). It is much easier to edit it and then copy and paste into Canvas. Yes, spelling and grammar matter! This is the “mechanics” area of my grading rubric.
