Overview
General Essay Information: This is a 500-word minimum, typed, single spaced essay. Please write your responses in essay format using paragraph breaks as necessary. The bulk of your response should be spent answering the question. Introductory and concluding remarks are secondary.
Please do not rely on any sources besides the class readings, lectures, and/or your own notes/ideas without prior written permission from me. Using sources besides those specified above will put your paper at risk of a failing grade and referral to the BIT team as a student conduct issue.
Font: whatever your computer defaults to (for Microsoft Word, it is Calibri at 11point. Apple Pages and Google Docs will probably have different default fonts. Just use what they are automatically set to write with). Heading on top left of first page: Name, word count, professor name, due date. If you are not sure how to find the word count, just google search “word count” and the writing program you use (I believe for Google docs, it is “ctrl+shift+c and for Mircosoft Word, it is Ctrl+shift+g. For Apple, I think you just have to follow the instructions here: https://support.apple.com/guide/pages/show-word-count-and-other-statistics-tand47165437/maLinks to an external site.)
Citations: Please put the author's last name and page number in parentheses--for example, if I was talking about page 32 from the Apology reading, I would end the sentence with (Plato 32).--at the end of any sentences that are "copy and pasted" or were "modified from something you read" to make your point. Special note for citing lecture material: you do not need to cite your teacher's lecture comments, just the pages he refers to when making the comments.
Title: Student’s Choice
actual essay prompt. In essay format, please answer the two questions below.
1. Thoroughly explain one philosophical issue that Anderson mentions in his writing. (see attached)
2. Use the philosophical issue or issues you explain to thoroughly analyze a contemporary situation, T.V. show, song, or interaction.
Your grade will be based on your ability to 1) clearly explain the philosophical issue, 2) clearly explain the contemporary situation, T.V. show, song, or interaction, and 3) clearly link the philosophical issue with the contemporary discussion.