Mike,

My only caution would to avoid giving a group writing assignment. Build
your teams and use them to help pears develop a clear understanding of what
constitutes :good" writing and give peer feedback on INDIVIDUAL writing.

Larry

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Michael Kramer <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> It is becoming clearer and clearer to me that I want to have significant
> changes in the outcomes my students experience in my course, yet I am
> reluctant to venture too far out of my comfort zone.
>
> Thanks for giving me that extra nudge.
>
> I now realize that I can change my objective to "write an effective
> analytical paper."
>
> Since philosophy is, by its very nature, abstract, I had a lot of
> difficulty
> conceiving realistic applications. (Give an example Plato's principle of
> opposites in a restaurant? How would you use Hume's views of induction in
> forecasting iPad sales in 2013? Explain the York College course
> registration
> process from a Nietzschean perspective?)
>
> What this exchange has done is shifted my perspective. My goal is eminently
> concrete: develop effective writers. The philosophical content (Plato,
> Hume,
> Nietzsche) is not the end but the means. The philosophy texts are the
> vehicle, not the destination.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Mike
>



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