This is week 9 of the spring semester. You should submit your weekly update by the end of the day today.
Complete the following reading this week:
1. Essays for peer review.
2. Lewis, The Abolition of Man--the entire book.
Complete the following writing this week:
1. Your revised essay 2 is due today. Upload it directly to the Pluto server at Palomar by ftp. See the FTP Instructions for how to do this. Review the format and requirements for revised essays.
2. Submit your second essay to Safe Assign, through Blackboard, by the end of the day on Friday. See the Instructions for Safe Assign for how to do this. I recommend that you submit your essay to Safe Assign before you upload the revised version to your Web site. Examine your originality report. It may show mistakes that you can easily correct in the essay before uploading it. Certainly you will want to correct any errors involving the use of quotation marks.
3. Your essay self-evaluation. This is due today. Remember that your essay is not complete until you have submitted your essay self-evaluation.
4. Your peer reviews for essay 2. For the revised essay, you will review two essays from students not in your editorial group. To see whose essay you should review, check the Peer Review List for Essay 2. You should complete your peer reviews by Wednesday.
5. Questions will be posted in the Discussion Board on the Lewis book as indicated on the calendar.
You should have completed the following reading last week:
Two working drafts for peer review.
You should have completed the following writing last week:
2. Your peer review of WD 2 for two other members of your editorial group.
3. Your revised essay 2.
Looking ahead:
The subject area for essay 3 is Morality. The Lewis book will discuss many moral issues, but you are not limited to those discussed in the book. You may write on any moral issue you choose. I would, however, caution you against choosing a topic that is so intensely controversial that many readers may have closed minds. Abortion and capital punishment, for example, tend to be difficult to write a short, persuasive essay on because so many readers have their minds made up. So begin to think of a narrow, specific moral question on which you can write in such a way as to influence your readers' thinking. Get started with your outside research soon, this week.
Next week, of course, is spring recess. We will begin the discussion of the entire Lewis book before next week. You may continue the discussion through the recess. I suggest that if you can get started on your essay over the break you would be ahead of the game. But that isn't required.
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