Significant Writing Project
Jeffrey Scheuer and Sanford Ungar each offer a defense of a liberal arts education for today’s students. For Scheuer the argument involves introducing several conceptions of the liberal arts, the centrality of dimensions of citizenship, and a case for critical thinking. Ungar engages in a kind of mythbusting by organizing his points as responses to “misperceptions.” The “Core Handbook” introduces the CAS core values as well as the general curriculum required of all students in the college. Together, these texts open a space for us to make sense of the purpose of a liberal arts education in the context of our actual curriculum.
The significant writing project that I did my best work on was project 2. In this project I was working best when I was able to implement my own opinion. Not just re-stating what the authors are saying but implementing your own ideas and opinions. Having an opinion is beneficial because it allows for the paper to not just be a summary of what Ungar and Scheuer are saying. In the peer review, both Alicia and Nick were able to clearly identify what it was that I was arguing from the opening paragraph. A clear argument is important because the reader knows exactly where the essay is going. I feel as though I collected good quotes that advanced my argument and I set them up and broke them down well.
