Eligible essays must have earned an AB or better and may be revised. The winners will be honored at the department s Senior Recognition Breakfast in May. Last year's winner was one of my students. Your practice analyzing and making arguments teaches you more than any lecturing. An argument includes claims, evidence, assumptions, an audience, and an occasion.
Arguments proceed by answering a series of anticipated questions.
Writing stuff down is better than just talking about it. Style and grammar serve argument, but neither will get primary attention in here. Change happens over time, incrementally, fitfully, sometimes secretly. Our knowledge is provisional, incomplete, imperfect, but we must assert anyway. We resist confronting hidden, sacred assumptions and dangerous arguments.