Our first formal essay is looking at issues of freedom, domestic confinement, anger, revenge, murder, and mental illness. In this essay, students will have a choice as to what topic or topics they want to tackle.
Demonstrate composition skills through both in-class and out-of-class essay assignments; at least three of the four must be formal, out-of-class essays.
Develop and state clearly a unifying thesis or proposition that examines a line of inquiry on an appropriately limited topic.
Employ principles of inductive and deductive logic to support and develop ideas in written assignments that reflect causality and causal skepticism, analysis, inference, and synthesis of sources and concepts.
Compose essays using precise diction that communicates unambiguously, demonstrating maturity of style and thought and a sense of audience.
