EssayDue Sunday, Aug 9 · 11:59 PMOpen help
Essay 2 — The engineered good place
100 points · 1,200–1,500 words · draft and final
Utopian fiction is an argument conducted in architecture. Take one designed society from our reading and show what its design costs the people inside it.
Draft beside your sources. A citation here remembers the passage it came from, including the note you made on it — so quote from what you actually read, not from memory.
Starter materials
- readerWeek 6 — More, Utopia, Book IIopens as your annotatable copy
- readerLe Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”opens as your annotatable copy
How this is graded
- Thesis and argument25 pts
- Evidence and citation25 pts
- Analysis30 pts
- Style and mechanics20 pts
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