A Coffee Date With Adam Smith
The 301 prof was not a big fan of big writing assignments, but he liked to mix things up. For different classes he would identify different media for students to use, and for ours he decided on Adobe Slack. There was a practice assignment, then a presentation assignment. I...
Pols301: Declarations of Independence
301, the first of the “actual” classes. Political Theory. The assignment here was a one-pager, just a quick compare/contrast between several Declarations. A funny bit of trivia- this class didn’t take much in the way of writing, but the professor was married to the one who assigned tons of...
Pols 102, part 3: The Global South
Just one short essay left here. Gonna roll hardcore and not even proofread. 5. Consider our discussion of cases in the Global South: Mexico, Brazil, India, Nigeria, and South Africa. Choose any three of these countries and discuss the institutions of colonialism as they pertain to political, economic, and cultural challenges...
Final- PoliSci 102 part 2- Exporting Marx
Some professors were sticklers for format, some not so much. Unfortunately for me, the one with the big writing assignments was VERY big on citations. She maintained a large library of related reading materials online for each of her courses, and heavily hinted that they should be read, but...
Welcome to CSUCI (sucker!)
The Channel Islands work goes on and on (and on). Some of the writing expectations were pretty hardcore- one prof in particular got easily over 70 pages between the three classes of hers that I took. The first two of those classes were in my first semester, which was...
Another PoliSci Final: Why Read Mill Today?
There was some real luck here. Between work and classes and procrastination, time was really down to the wire. Fortunately I’d chosen one of the few texts that had been written in the last 50 years, and it wasn’t even an original thing. So all I had to do...
Painting the Town Red
In theory I should have a Woodbury category, if I’m going to do PCC and CSUCI on their own. But that just complicates distinctions between writing and other work. Besides, I never finished that program anyway. Graphic Design at the time was as much Aldus as it was Adobe....
Response: George Orwell, Meet Mark Zuckerberg
Haha, these responses got shorter as the semester went on. From a solid two pages down to one. Still this was just English 1C, so my bigger problem was typos… Lori Andrews’ exploration of the illusion of online privacy occupies a rhetorical space similar to earlier readings on campus...
Reading Response: Foucault’s Panopticon
This class really had a ton of writing. Fixed some glaring typos, but left the obscure ending. The line I was drawing between philosophers and mental patients isn’t as clear as I’d like, but oh well. Foucault’s exploration of Bentham’s fictional “Panopticon” is utilitarianism at its brutal finest. The...
Reading Response: Becoming Members of a Gendered Society
I’m doing a re-read and some minor editing on each of these, but I’m kinda surprised by how few changes I’m making. Some pronoun adjustments for clarity here and there, mostly. Lots of cringing at wayword sentence structure, but oh well. Practice practice. The original here was a trans...