Weekly writing

• What:
  
  Each Friday morning, a one to two page essay is due.  The essay must include these elements:
  
  
  • Theme: Begin with a synopsis of some part of the discussion in seminars that occurred on Monday and Tuesday.  This should identify a question and the passage or passages from the assigned reading that came up in discussion and a summary of what was said and who said what.
    
    
  • Development: Offer a development of that discussion – your further thoughts and suggestions about passages that also shed light on the discussion, what you wish you had said during the discussion.
    
    
  • Resolution: Provide a conclusion, either an answer to the question or a better way of asking the question or questions that were discussed.
    
• How:
  
  
  This is the required format:
  
  • Identify each of the three element in your essay: theme, development, resolution.
    
    
  • By 9am Friday morning, post your essay on Web-x (beginning in week 2) .
    
    
  • Every other week (as scheduled), turn in a hard copy of your essay at 10 am on Friday.
    
    
• Follow up:
  
  • By Monday of each week (beginning in week 3), post responses on Web-x to at least two of the essays posted the Friday before.