Week 8, Essay 2, Ethics, logic, physics, and politics

After posting (and finishing, if necessary) your previous research and journal notes, take a little break. Then, review the rubric and begin creating an introduction or summary of your work this semester on the seven ways of thinking: ethics, logic, physics, politics, metaphysics, epistemology, and æsthetics. Essay 3 continues, expands, and revises your work for essay 1. As before, the rubric specifies requirements for both an introduction and a body but no conclusion yet. If you’re up to date with the wks 1-7 R&J activities, very simply you’re revising your e1 intro to include physics and politics, as you revise notes and rough drafts into more paragraph style.

_____ introduction begins by generally introducing topic of focus, then presents the thesis opinion so far, from the perspectives of ethics, logic, physics (natural science), and politics (social science) then outlines the range of opinions analyzed;

 _____ body explains as support for thesis opinion reasons, researched examples, and other evidence, including at least 4 brief quotes from Sacks’ River of Consciousness, 1 brief quote from each of 4 personally-researched sources, 4 quotes from Goldman’s Lion in Winter, and 4 quotes from classmates’ R&J posts, with a focus on the politics, physics, logic, and ethics involved; summary of sources is avoided, instead, brief quotes and examples are thoroughly explained as support for thesis;