In this special session from my Spring 2013 Introduction to Philosophy class at Marist College, I provide a roughly hour-long workshop and Q&A session dealing with the writing side of Close Reading assignments in Philosophy classes.
It became clear to me that some of my students were finding themselves held back in writing their Close Reading assignments, by various unanswered questions, confusions, and concerns. So I decided to use of of our class sessions to focus specifically on clearing up some of these issues, and helping them develop a better understanding about what sort of writing assignment -- and what processes of reading, writing, and thinking -- I was hoping they would engage in.
The workshop recorded here is designed for students at a beginning level, rather than intermediate or advanced levels. Some of the discussion references my own specific assignment sheets and rubric, and we reference the texts by Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, and Anselm we have been reading so far this semester
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