human-enhancement

A project:

Papers in this range demonstrate a thorough and exceptional understanding of the reading.It goes well beyond the partial understandings achieved in class discussions, and often there are insights or approaches to the readings that surprise us, notice what we have overlooked, and/or teach us new ways of reading.As a reading the paper, works “with and against the grain,” balancing the writer’s own opinions and experiences with critical engagements with the text.Quotations are often closely woven into the writer’s text.In the best A papers, the writer is (sometimes self-consciously) working not to be simplistic or reductive: there may be careful qualifications, subtle asides, acknowledgments of the limitations or problems inherent in a line of argument, attempts to look at a statement more than one way, a recognition of productive ambiguities in what is being said and/or quoted.