What is higher education?
PART A (Due no later than 12:00 PM Eastern Standard US Time, on Wed. Jun, 30th, 2021)
What is a “real” education? What is the purpose of education? What do you expect to get from your education?
Respond to the questions above in 1 + 1/2 pages. Please be sure to organize this assignment — develop a clear introduction with a thesis; body paragraphs, with support; and a conclusion. Please submit as an individual Microsoft Word document.
PART B (Due no later than 12:00 PM Eastern Standard US Time, on Wed. Jun 30th, 2021)
Read the following article and construct SOAPS notes for it. This should be another Microsoft Word document.
https://main.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/486-who-are-you-and-what-are-you-doing-here
SOAPS should include 4-5 sentences MINIMUM for EACH question. Please label your responses, accordingly: (Subject, Opinion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker)…
Subject: What is the subject? General topic, content, ideas contained in the text…
Opinion: What is your opinion/response to the reading?
Audience: Who is the audience? The group of readers or viewers to whom this article is directed? How do you know?
Purpose: Why is he/she writing or speaking? What is the reason behind the article?
Speaker: About the speaker — What is his or her tone? Concerned? Matter-of-Fact? Angry? How do you know? Pick at least one quote from the speaker and explain why you chose that quotation —- Why was it important to you?
PART C (Due no later than 6:00 PM Eastern Standard US time, on Wed. Jun. 30th)
In your own words respond to the following question:
What is the transformative potential of education?
Your response should be 1/2 a page, submitted as an independent Microsoft Word Document.
PART D (Due no later than 10:00 AM, Eastern Standard US Time, on Thurs. July 1st, 2021)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2009/0324/p09s02-coop.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomlindsay/2019/03/30/the-other-college-scandal-grade-inflation-has-turned-transcripts-into-monopoly-money/
Briefly compare these two articles? What are some of the shared ideas? What are some of the differences in the arguments? Your response should be approximately 1/2 a page. Submit it as a standalone Microsoft Word document. Then write SOAPS notes for each article, in two independent documents, following the above format, outlined in Part B…
