Global Change - 504 Dialogue

Spring 2014

Reports:

Graduate (504-level) students may be required to hand in a 1-2 page written critique of the assigned papers for some online discussion. I will tell you when these are required.

The critique should attempt to synthesize the papers under the common theme linking them. The critique is not an opinion piece about the topic of the papers. It should be a thoughtful evaluation of the papers assigned. These are some points that a good critique should provide

  1. the overall theme of the papers
  2. the perspective the authors bring to the theme
  3. the underlying goal of the authors in writing their paper(s)
  4. their approach toward achieving their goal
  5. assumptions of the authors and how they limit their perspective
  6. the degree of success of the authors in achieving their goal
  7. further work that could extend or more thoroughly achieve the authors' goals