Critical Thinking Class, Spring 2016 (yeah, you've got to think ahead in this business)
From Inquiry to Academic Writing, Third Edition
Essay 1: Students choose a contemporary debate of their choosing while studying Chapters 1-10.
Essay 2: Chapter 12 (Education) and Chapter 13 (Media Studies). Students must develop a debatable thesis based on one of the readings.
Essay 3: Chapter 14 (Sociology) and Chapter 16 (Environmental Studies). Students must develop a debatable thesis based on one of the readings.
Final Essay based on Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow
The Assignment
Based on your reading of James Forman's critique, defend or refute Michelle Alexander's comparison of today's mass incarceration with post-slavery Jim Crow laws. How does her comparison elevate or diminish her central argument? Explain. Be sure to use the Toulmin method of argumentation.
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