Essay and LRO Assignments
       essay 1 :: rough draft due 25 september :: final draft due 4 october :: 4 - 6 pages
                :: essay 1 rough draft general comments
       essay 2 :: rough draft due 11 October :: final draft due 18 October :: 4 - 6 pages
       lro midterm :: due in lro on monday, 22 october, midnight

The Research Paper
       research paper guidelines
       research paper proposal :: due 16 October :: 1 - 2 pages :: on research paper forum
       research process essays :: due 25 October :: 1 page max :: on research paper forum
       research paper rough draft 1 :: due 30 October :: 4 - 6 pages
       research paper rough draft 2 :: due 13 November :: 6 - 8 pages
       research paper rough draft 3 :: due 24 November :: 8 - 10 pages
       research paper final draft :: due 10 December :: no less than 10 full pages of text; no more than 15

:: all essay assignments must be written using Microsoft Word, Times New Roman font size 12, 1" margins all around
:: any assignment not in the above format will not be read

Daily Assignments

For Tuesday, 2 October

Please read the following from the Kosovo Packet: Maps, American Media Reporting, and Serb Media Reporting. If you feel that you will be able to read the texts more carefully printed out, please do so (you can print them for free in Parlin 6, 9am - 9pm). There is a lot of reading, but it is, I think, very interesting.

Post to the Main Discussion Forum the following response: Discuss your intitial impressions of the Kosovo Crisis in terms of Regan's discussion of discrimination and proportionality. How do the American Media and Serb Media present the situation differently?

For Thursday, 18 September

Please re-read your group's transcript and then read the trasncript from one other group, and post a response to the ideas discussed in that group to the Main Discussion Forum. In your discussion, do not just write that you agree with everything that was mentioned. Find some things that you either see differently or completely disagree with and explore those ideas further. You can even address the response to the group, asking questions, with the hope that they will be answered. All groups did an outstanding job with their discussion, so treat them with the care they diserve. The full texts can be found by selecting the group link below:

• Group 1
• Group 2
• Group 3
• Group 4
• Group 5

For some strange reason the forum tool that compiles the text does not do so in the order that the posted were posted. So, you will have to start at the bottom and read up. Its pain, I know, but. . . .

And please feel free to add more to the Terrorist Attack forum and addlink page (note: do not post comments on the attacks to the Main Forum). There is still a lot to discuss and I'm interested in your ideas.

For Tuesday, 11 September

Please read Tuchman, "August 1: Berlin," "August 1: Paris and London," "Ultimatun in Brussels," and respond to the following on the Main Discussion Forum:

• By now you should have some familiarity with the events that were taking place in Europe in July and August, 1914 -- what each country thought, how they interacted with each other, what they were trying to do. Please write a general response to what you have read. Some questions you may want to consider follow, but they are by no means the limit of what you can discuss.
  • What are your impressions about what was going on? What was the political climate like? Did anything about the the country's actions surprise you? Why or why not? What do you make of it all?
• Remember the page requirement. And if you find that one of your peers writes something interesting, please feel free to respond to their posting.

Log in to the Learning Record Online and click around in it, getting a feel for what it can do for you and what youcan do with it. Start working on Parts A1 and A2, which are due Thursday, 13 September. The long time between classes provides an excellent opportunity for you to get in touch with someone to interview and for you to explore your own development. You can see sample Parts A1 and A2 at http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~syverson/olr/exemplars/A.html. Remember, these are samples -- and most of them are of a lower quality than what I am looking for.

Have a great weekend.

For Thursday, 6 September

Your IF Numbers are due. IF Numbers are needed so you can log in to the class computers starting the third week. Please go to http://www.utexas.edu/cc/account/ and follow the online directions; they are easy and the least time consuming.

Please read the "Annotating" section from Strategies for Critical Reading handed out in class, and use the skills you learn from the essay when completing the readings for the rest of the semester.

From the texts, read the following: Coates, "The Just War" (97 - 119); Tuchman, "Let the Last Man on the Right Brush the Channel with His Sleeve" (17 - 27), "Outbreak" (71 - 72).

• If you are using the books on reserve, please photocopy the pages and bring them with you to class.
• Post an answer to the following question at the Main Discussion Forum:
• Where would you located you own war philosophy? Why? Responses should be equivalent to at least one page double spaced. I recommend writing you response in Word, spell-checking it, and then copying and pasting it into the forum.
• Please respond no later than midnight Wednesday.

For Tuesday, 4 September

Please make sure you have all the required materials listed on the syllabus. Sign up on the Class Contact Page.

Read the brief handout from "Introduction: Pluralism and Moral Discourse," by Richard Miller and "Introduction" by A.J. Coates. You may also want to look ahead to the rest of the reading as there is quite a bit due on Thursday. I suggest starting "Just War" by A.J. Coates.

Read throught the Learning Record information web site -- especially the pages for students -- and come up with 5 written questions you have about the Learning Record process. Post your questions to the course Learning Record Discussion Forurm (there is a forum on the Learning Record site; please do not use that one).

Also read the Rhetoric and Composition policy on Plagiarism (6.1 - 6.3), and print out and sign the Scholastic Responsibility Agreement (please use this link; the one on the web page is broken). If you do not already have a UT email account, you are required to have one for this course. You can register for UT email by using Telnet at telnet://mail.utexas.edu and by following the instructions (if your computer has a Telnet connection; most UT computers do), or by following the other instructions at http://www.utexas.edu/cc/umbs/steps/. You are required to have a UT email account because yahoo, hotmail, and other web-based emails do not have the ability to handle the size of the attachmented files we will be using in the course.

Have a great weekend.