Project 6: Analytical Writing

Alton

Eng 111- 04, 06

Project 5Reflective Presentation DirectionsInstead of writing a fifth essay, Project 5 combines a writing demonstration with the pass/fail oral presentation that is one of the course requirements. Your presentation should last at least 7 and no more than 10 minutes. A minimum of 4 students will present on self-selected or assigned days (Dec 1, 3, 5, 8, 10, or 12). Your Reflective Presentation must contain the following elements:1. Via the classroom projector, a before-and-after demonstration of how you applied the principles of Description to improve a paragraph from one of the assigned essays;2. A brief discussion of what you gained from the slides on Analysis;3. A closing discussion of one any of the following topics brought up in class:

People are the stories they tell themselves

Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Race

Sexual politics

Self-loathing social identities

Cultivating the anti-self

The Chimpanzee Trope

The "knowledge" spectrum

First-principle logic versus data-based logic in causation

Math as the language of God

The deep cause of violence, sex, and drug use

Art and the quest for nobility as the solution to the deep cause of violence, sex, and drugs

Infectious causation of unknown cause diseases and mental illness

Reason = Words

R3 Crazy teacher stories

Other

Grade

If you make a good faith effort on the first requirement, you will get an automatic B on the assignment. If your effort is inadequate, then your grade will be lower than a B. This is definitely at gift to reward those of you who attended regularly and listened well enough to carry away the level of competence the class was designed to instill.