There are three tasks each week:

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.

Monday, November 11, 2013

TIPPING POINT ESSAY ASSIGNMENT...

Can you believe that the quarter is coming to an end? Our final assignment(we have no final exam, by the way) deals with our final reading of the quarter, Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point.

The assignment is below. If you have any questions, please oh please let me know!!!

TIPPING POINT ESSAY ASSIGNMENT: (30%)
The essay should uploaded to turnitin.com. It will be 2-4 pages in length, double spaced.
There are two essay topics to choose from.
Obviously, as you read through the book look for examples that will help you build a fabulous final paper!
Write a 2-4 page double spaced essay on one of the following topics:
 
1. How might one or more of the ideas in the book The Tipping Point apply to your chosen major or profession?

2. 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 Gladwell's criteria for tipping point phenomenon; does it exhibit contagiousness. or little causes having big effects, or dramatic change?


THIS IS DUE NOVEMBER 25 TO TURNITIN.
LATE PAPERS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED, AND YOU CANNOT PASS THE CLASS WITHOUT THIS ASSIGNMENT, SO BE SURE IT IS IN ON TIME.
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