Il. The Stages of Academic Writing: Scaffolding Portfolio Assignment Series Purpose: Successful Academic Writing doesn’t happen in a vacuum, but involves communicative encounters with other rational inquirers at critical stages in the process. To this end, the following series of three scaffolding sub-assignments is designed to (i) assist you along the way in composing your final paper while (ji) simultaneously providing you with all the materials you will need for your final portfolio, 1, PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL: Explore your paper topic by sparking up a real-life conversation, either in person or through social media platforms. Past successes have included twitter wars with senators, conversations with abortion protestors on the street, and debates on gun control over Thanksgiving dinner. Practice explaining and applying philosophical concepts where relevant. The purpose of this assignment is to get you started testing the argumentative waters on your paper topic, as well as to give you possible talking points for your presentation. Details: A 300-500 word curatorial write-up ipping the experience is due as an entry in your final portfoli Il. ONE MINUTE PAPER PITCH AND ONE-ON-ONE FEEDBACK MEETING (NEXT WEEK IN LIEU OF CLASS): Advanced academic writing will typically involve consultation with academic advisors at some point in the process. However, these meetings are best considered not as ‘top-down interventions that you passively attend, but as active presentations in which you seek to enlist the support of experts in your area. ‘To help you practice for these encounters, each student will have a 10-15 minute one-on-one meeting with me next week in place of our normally scheduled lecture (No Lectures Next Week; One meeting for each student). Everyone will sign up for a time slot on Doodle (Link to be posted on Course Website). During this meeting, there will be two components: i) ONE MINUTE PAPER PITCH: You will have 60 seconds to pitch your final paper topic and your strategy for approaching this topic (see next page for instructions) ii) PAPER FEEDBACK: | will give you feedback on your first paper, and constructive suggestions for your final paper: (INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS WILL HAVE A SEPARATE MEETING TO BE ARRANGED LATER) IIL Applied Ethics Conference: Every student will prepare and lead a presentation and discussion (15 min total) of their paper topic at our Applied Ethics Conference. Each student will also complete an organizing and commentator task (instructions to be given on day of conference). All presentations will have a Presentation Handout, to be modelled on the handout completed for the Philosophy in the news assignment. (INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS WILL HAVE A SEPARATE MEETING TO BE ARRANGED LATER)The One-Minute-Paper Pitch Purpose: The purpose of this class is not merely to teach you about philosophy, but first and foremost how to do philosophy. To that end, philosophical writing is best seen as an act of communication between inquiring persons. You should get out of the headspace of seeing your writing as the production of a textual object that satisfies a set of formulaic rules, and into the headspace of seeing your writing from the standpoint of a buman reader, one who has less than infinite cognitive resources to spend in following the argument of your paper. Being able to cleatly, concisely, and confidently communicate the guiding question of your paper to other people will help you to refine the central claim you will be contributing through your paper, ‘Task: behind your paper in capsule form. n this exercise, you'll give a one-minute-pitch designed to provide yourself and others the ambition INSTRUCTIONS: The average person speaks at somewhere between 125 and 150 words per minute, To challenge ourselves to improve clarity and concision, you'll have 150 words max to accomplish the following: (@ Establish Minimal Context: What is the ive you will be addressing? (@ Raise a Guiding Question: Why is this icone interesting? What are the questions posed and what are the stakes at band? (iii) Audition Your Response: How will yom address this itene?