Your essay should be
informed, articulate, and reflective. This means you must (i) demonstrate
understanding of the assignments, (ii) analyze and evaluate those materials,
and (iii) express your own opinions, explore your own ideas, and draw your own
conclusions.
You may discuss issues with
classmates, but use standard considerations of academic integrity: if you use
an insight or argument suggested by another person, reference the
indebtedness. Outside sources are allowed, but not required.
Length: approximately 7-10 pages of
text: typed, double-spaced, 12 point font, one inch margins. Given the tight
time-frame that professors have to grade final exams, papers must be submitted no later that 11:00a.m. on December 17,
2009. Unless you make advance arrangements for an incomplete, failure to
submit a paper on-time will result in a failing grade for the
course.
