For the first essay, students will synthesize three iBook texts from the ethics section with your own "rule to live by" to create a new ethics system. The essay will include references to and quotes from three of the following course readings: Daly, Matthew 5-7, Sermon at Benares, Bhagavad Gita, Plato, Utopia.
• 4-5 pages, APA style
• Pass / fail: Score in the left two columns of each rubric line for a passing score.
Research Process Step 1: Synthesis writing is a written discussion that draws on one or more sources. In an academic synthesis, you make explicit the relationships that you have inferred among separate sources. Go beyond summary to make judgments – judgments based, of course, on critical reading of the sources. Go beyond the critique of individual sources to determine the relationship among them.
MY QUOTES:
Jesus (Matthew chapters 5-7 [Sermon on the Mount]) - “Verily I say unto thee, thou shalt not come out thence, till thou hast payed the utmost farthing.”
Crito (Plato’s Crito) - “Then we ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to anyone, whatever evil we may have suffered from him.”
Buddha (sermon at bernares)- “However, let him be moderate, let him eat and drink according to the need of the body.”