In this option, you will complete the following:
Select a key idea from one of our five philosophers covered in weeks 1-5.
Apply that key idea to a modern-day context.
Demonstrate how that key idea helps the reader understand your perspective on the modern-day context.
For example, you may choose to discuss Plato’s concept of how knowledge changes perspective, and you may apply that idea to a modern-day novel, film, news story, or even a magazine advertisement.
The choice of what you apply the tool to is your own. By that, you may choose whatever text, or artifact that communicates a message, to apply the tool.
Imagine, for example, you watched Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, that film we talked about in our discussion of Plato. You might want to talk about how that film does or does not successfully apply the concepts of Plato to teach the audience about a larger idea.
Note: You may debate whether the text you choose does or does not meet the standards of your chosen philosopher’s ideas.
Remember, too, that you’ve likely done a lot of work on the key themes and examples in our weekly handouts. You can mine ideas and sources from there and from any feedback from your peers.
You have also done a good bit of work on your thesis and/or body paragraphs with your Portfolio Milestone Assignments from weeks 2, 4, and 6. Again, you are encouraged to revisit that work and comments from your Instructor on that work to outline and revise your ideas for the final portfolio project.
Hint: While you are putting together your final discussion presentation in Week 8 discussion, you will also get a chance to review your key ideas and quotes from the class, so be sure to leverage that step in locating key elements of your final paper’s body paragraphs and/or ideas to inform the final thesis, introduction, and conclusion.
Your paper must be two to three pages, 12-point font, double-spaced. That means no 1.5 page papers, and no papers longer than 3 pages. The length of the paper is designed to help you boil down the key ideas into a focused thesis with 3-7 body paragraphs and a conclusion. We are focusing on quality, not quantity.
Category: Critical reasoning
For your assignment submission, you’ll include:
2-3 specific quotations from Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria and Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Deaththat you are considering using in your final paper. Make sure to include page numbers or website references for your chosen specific quotations. Note: The more specifically you can connect to the exact words of the philosopher, the more you can debate your words in the paragraph plan against or for those exact words.
2 body paragraphs – one about the quotation from Quintilian and one about the quotation from Postman. For more, see the example below.
2 completed handouts (Module 5 and Module 6 Key Point Handouts) for Quintilian and Postman
Take your quotation from Quintilian and your examples to write a paragraph about Quintilian’s words, using the Academic Paragraph handout Download Academic Paragraph handoutto build a body paragraph for your paper. Watch the Academic Paragraph video for help with the handout.
Then, follow the same process for a paragraph on Postman for your paper.
Cite a direct quotation from Postman
Analyze it with three examples from your own experience
Take that information and write a paragraph about Postman, using the Academic Paragraph handout Download Academic Paragraph handoutto build a body paragraph about Postman for your paper.
Your submission for this assignment should be 1-2 pages in length and should cite your direct quotations from Quintilian and Postman. That reference citation should be tied to an APA References page at the end of the paper.
In this week’s discussion, we focus on the final of the five Modes of Rhetoric that we learned from Quintilian but were adhered to and advanced by all five of our thinkers.
Review all of the handouts you completed on key themes throughout the course. Select your 3 favorite themes and at least 1 sub point for each theme. Collect that information with the idea that you may refer to it in the future. If needed, review the Key Points video and Academic Paragraph Plan video. Post your selections here for discussion, including how you think these themes will apply to your own life.
For example, you may use these ideas in the future at work when you are required to complete a presentation. Or you may use these ideas to rethink how you view a particular topic in the world. Right now, the ideas of our thinkers and their tools are fresh in your mind, but over time, those ideas will fade, as all ideas do, so writing down and taking notes on the ideas that matter to you in the context of our class is really important. By noting what matters to you now when the ideas are fresh in your mind, you can capture where you are now. That way, when you return to these ideas, you will be able to resume where you left off and remind yourself of key areas of focus.
See this collection of themes and subpoints as your own personal handbook on the tools we practiced all semester. Feel free to add any notes or additional resources you like. Be creative. This work is meant to reflect where you are now on these ideas, so that you can grow from there, as needed, in the future.
PLEASE RESPOND TO BOTH CLASSMATES ATTACHED VIA FILES