December 2010 Archives

Hi all:

When you have finished the selection from Descarte's Error, go back and pick the quotation (could be as long as a paragraph) that you found most interesting, or important, or confusing, or illumination, and type it into the comment box.

Then write a few lines, up to a paragraph, explaining why you picked that particular quotation.

Remember: you entry will not necessarily appear immediately on the blog.

Also, please remember, if you do not wish to be identified as a member of this class, please use a false name and let me know what it is.

Nick
Hi all:

As I indicated in class, you could, if you wish and only if you wish, write your first paper almost entirely on the story of Phineas.  Such a paper would be to a high degree a summary.  A good summary though can be hard to write.  You need of course to analyze the reading, and through that analysis locate what you think to be the largest, the main, the most abstract point the author is trying to make through the story of Phineas.  This is where you come in...where you begin to locate, even to create...that main point, so that you can use it to organize your paper in a way that does not simply repeat the reading.  The main idea is rather like a magnet that can attract those details and those quotations most important to the magnet, while eliminating details and quotations that are not important.

So what I would like you to do for this blog entry is write a paragraph or so trying to explain what you think the main point of the story is both for the author and for you.

This will require that you reread some portions of the article.

I look forward to your paragraphs.

Nick



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