Last Week

The paper got much, much better and we went through it with an eye towards a final draft–tightening up some sentences, thinking about a more precise way to make the argument.

After talking about the paper, we watched two TED Talk clips. One was about The Hidden Influence of Social Networks and the other was about The Lucifer Effect. The exercise for next week was:

Write a brief 1-2 page response about one of the TED Talks. What is the speaker’s main argument or arguments?

Some questions you may want to consider are whether you agree or disagree with speaker, what strikes you most about what the speaker said, whether you find what the speaker(s) said applicable in your own life, etc.?