All exam questions are essays that require you to reason about issues or perhaps to provide evidence for or against particular claims. They will not be mere exercises in the regurgitation of text and lecture materials. If you have any difficulty understanding the text, please bring your questions to class or stop by and see me during an office hour. Please start reading the text immediately. I will distribute a writing assignment based on the book in several weeks.
All papers are due at the beginning of class on the announced due date.
This writing assignment is worth 100 points. Final grades will be determined by the total number of points earned out of the possible total. I regard your textbook to be a reference book for you, and neither you nor I will be fettered to it in such a way that the aims and goals for this course will be compromised. Yes, you must read it to do well in the course, but I don t wish for you to simply memorize the material in it. I want you to think about what you read.