Assignment #4 Due

Assignment #4 is due by midnight tonight. You must submit through the TurnItIn link on the course Blackboard site.

Extensions

Recall that the generous budget of ten free extension days applies to Assignment #4. You may turn it in up to ten days late without any penalty except having a smaller budget of extension days for future assignments and the term paper.

Instructions

You will find the full instructions for Assignment #4 at the link below. Make sure to read the instructions in full several days before you plan to submit so that you understand how much time the assignment will take you. On similar assignments I have often found that students are surprised by how much time they take. I hope that I have made this one easier, but it may still require more thought than you plan for, so my advice is to plan ahead.

Weekly Reflection Due

Recall that five times over the course of the semester, you must submit a Weekly Reflection. Weekly Reflections will be turned in through a TurnItIn link on the course Blackboard site (which we use only to turn in assignments and so that you can review your grades).

If you have not yet submitted your second weekly reflection, then you MUST submit a weekly reflection this week in order to meet the deadline to have submitted three weekly reflections by next week. Otherwise it is optional for this week.

Instructions

Recall from the syllabus:

Five times over the course of the semester you will submit a “Weekly Reflection piece”.  Your reflection should be a full page in standard double-spaced formatted text that thinks through in your own words something from class or the readings for that week.  Your reflection may take one of various forms.  It may, for example, be a puzzle, an objection, or an application.  In a puzzle reflection, you would write about something that you feel like you don’t understand, and try to say what you find so difficult to understand about it.  In an objection reflection, you would try to say clearly in half of a page what you take some view that we have encountered in class or the readings to be, and what you take to be its motivations, and then in the second half of the page you would try to pose an objection to it.  In an application reflection, you would try to take an idea from class and apply it to something from outside of class – one of your experiences, or a piece of literature or a film, or to current events.  There are other possible formats for a reflection, but these are three good options.  Put a title on your reflection each week that indicates what category it belongs to.

That’s it! Those are the instructions. If you have questions, ask! Otherwise, give it a try, see what you can learn from the feedback that you get, and then do better on the next four.

Deadlines

Weekly Reflections must always be submitted before midnight on Sundays. You can submit at most one each week, and you must have submitted one by this week, at least three by Sunday, March 24th, and all five by Sunday, April 14th.

Let me spell out what follows from these rules, to make sure there are absolutely no mistakes: this means that the latest date to submit your second weekly reflection is Sunday, March 17th, and that the latest date to submit your fourth weekly reflection is Sunday, April 7th. But these are all last possible deadlines - you can submit in the first five eligible weeks and be done for the semester, which would be absolutely great, in my book.