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 > -- ******************************* Larry K. Michaelsen, Professor of Management Dockery 400G, University of Central Missouri Warrensburg, MO 64093 660/543-4315 voice, 660/543-8465 fax For info on: Team-Based Learning (TBL) <www.teambasedlearning.org> Integrative Business Experience (IBE) <http://ucmo.edu/IBEl<http://faculty.ucmo.edu/ibe/home.html> > *******************************