Agents, Victims, and Escapees

So Far

Our semester has focused on two issues:

     • The first issue is the development of a process for writing an academic paper. Our Mapping Model and the process steps that go with it -- TEQ Sheets, Purpose & Problem Statement, Prospectus, and Paper -- are the core of that focus.  

     • Our second issue is the power of class, institutions, digital tools, and other forces to invisibly channel our behavior, thought, values, and beliefs into a narrow set of choices.

     • We have completed many readings, asked hundreds of excellent questions, and offered important claims.  The creation of our insights depended on using the mapping method.

Now

It is your job to use the readings, discussions, and the papers you've written, to report on the changes you see in your idea of college.  The paper builds on your previous work, and it's likely that some of that work will appear in this paper. Consider the following:

This paper combines description, comparison, classification, and narration into a history of your own thinking about education:

          • What are the educational  issues  we've dealt with that strike you as important?

          • What is the change in your thinking?

          • What issues were new, revised, reinforced, rejected?

          • What made you change?

          • Will the changes in your thinking make any difference in your life?

The audience for this paper is the students who will come to  for the first time time next semester.

note #1: the "Argument" link under the "Modes" tab offers practical advice for this kind of paper.

note #2: This paper can use a "pivot" structure. It's easy, practical, and highlights your insight. Ask me to explain this organizational method.