Essay Topics #3 includes 2 essays – Essay Topic 3–1 and Essay Topic 3–2. This assignment concerns the course materials (https://we.tl/t-E0DqyHlu5p). On a quick count, there are 48 writers (including organizations acting as writers) who’ve been assigned. More than half of the 48 can be called “broadly on the left”: they’re advocating greater class, racial, or gender equality—or are otherwise standing up to capitalism or powerful groups. The rest can generally be called “broadly on the right.” (There are very few questionable cases. I’d classify Lippmann in The Phantom Public (https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Phantom_Public/Lr41AAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0) as broadly on the right, though he’d been a Progressive in his younger years.) As you’ll see, you’re expected to produce one essay on writers broadly on the left and one essay on writers broadly on the right, and indicate that clearly in the essays which one is ‘on left’ and which one is ‘on right’. You should read both essay topics below before getting to work.
| Essay Topic 3–1 (3 pages). Please comment, in detail, on the thought of two or (preferably) three writers in the third part of our course which are in the provided materials, every one of which may be called “broadly on the left” or “broadly on the right.” At least two of these writers should be important enough to have 5 or more pages of their work assigned in POSC 113. Were their arguments persuasive? Have their arguments proved lastingly beneficial (or detrimental)?Essay Topic 3–2 (3 pages). Please provide a survey of certain writers in the third part of our course—either all those who were broadly on the left or all those who were broadly on the right. (If you’re doing essay 3–1 on writers broadly on the left, you must do essay 3–2 on writers broadly on the right—and vice versa.) You should compare and contrast the arguments of different sorts of writers, considering such matters as their chronological period or their focus of attention. Who was most persuasive—or unpersuasive? Whose arguments are most beneficial (or detrimental) |
Essay format instruction
It’s recommended that you include a “thesis statement” in each essay—that is, a sentence or two indicating your answer to the questions posed in the given essay topic.
Essay Topics #3 includes 2 essays – Essay Topic 3–1 and Essay Topic 3–2. This assignment concerns the course materials (https://we.tl/t-E0DqyHlu5p). On a quick count, there are 48 writers (including organizations acting as writers) who’ve been assigned. More than half of the 48 can be called “broadly on the left”: they’re advocating greater class, racial, or gender equality—or are otherwise standing up to capitalism or powerful groups. The rest can generally be called “broadly on the right.” (There are very few questionable cases. I’d classify Lippmann in The Phantom Public (https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Phantom_Public/Lr41AAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0) as broadly on the right, though he’d been a Progressive in his younger years.) As you’ll see, you’re expected to produce one essay on writers broadly on the left and one essay on writers broadly on the right, and indicate that clearly in the essays which one is ‘on left’ and which one is ‘on right’. You should read both essay topics below before getting to work.
| Essay Topic 3–1 (3 pages). Please comment, in detail, on the thought of two or (preferably) three writers in the third part of our course which are in the provided materials, every one of which may be called “broadly on the left” or “broadly on the right.” At least two of these writers should be important enough to have 5 or more pages of their work assigned in POSC 113. Were their arguments persuasive? Have their arguments proved lastingly beneficial (or detrimental)?Essay Topic 3–2 (3 pages). Please provide a survey of certain writers in the third part of our course—either all those who were broadly on the left or all those who were broadly on the right. (If you’re doing essay 3–1 on writers broadly on the left, you must do essay 3–2 on writers broadly on the right—and vice versa.) You should compare and contrast the arguments of different sorts of writers, considering such matters as their chronological period or their focus of attention. Who was most persuasive—or unpersuasive? Whose arguments are most beneficial (or detrimental) |
Essay format instruction
It’s recommended that you include a “thesis statement” in each essay—that is, a sentence or two indicating your answer to the questions posed in the given essay topic.
