WEEKLY REQUIRED WORK

These are time sensitive. You do not receive credit if you write them after the deadline each week.

First, there's a blog entry (about 250 words) which will have you respond to a hopefully thought-provoking question. Each week, you must do the blog entry with enough time left in the week to be able to enter into dialogue online with your classmates. Write, reply, write more, reply more, and then write and reply more.

Second, there's a reading. There’s no blog entry associated with this. Just read.

Third, there's a written response to the reading. Your reading and writing on the blog must be completed by the SATURDAY (by midnight) of the week in which the reading falls. This entry should be a long paragraph. YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESPOND TO OTHER STUDENTS' PART THREE EACH WEEK.

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

FINAL ESSAY OF THE QUARTER: THE TIPPING POINT

FOR THIS ESSAY, THERE ARE TWO MAJOR REQUIREMENTS. 
First, you must write the essay...duh.
Second, you must email the essay to a classmate. The classmate will revise and edit and send the essay back to you.

 Let's start with the essay itself. The essay is about 3 pages, double spaced. There are two questions that you can write about:
1. How might one or more of the ideas in the book The Tipping Point apply to your chosen profession or major? 

 2. How relevant is this idea of a tipping point? To discuss this question, locate a trend [social, political, cultural, other] that seems to exhibit a "tipping point" phenomenon. Provide a brief explanation of why you think this phenomenon meets any or all of Gladwell's three criteria for tipping point phenomenon: a) contagiousness b) little causes having big effects c) not gradual but dramatic change. 

 FOLLOW THESE DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY!!!

 On or before March 14, you will email your essay to a classmate. (I will notify you who that will be)
Once you receive a classmate's essay, you will comment on it, suggesting numerous ways to improve the essay.
You will then email the essay back to the author AND TO ME by Monday the 17th of March.

 The final essay will be due to turnitin on March 21. 
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