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:*Workshop for Position Paper #1: What We Owe Strangers
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:*Tribe, Lawrence. "Deconstructing Dobbs" (2nd half, 9-17)
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::*Today's class has no reading assignment.
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:*Alfino, "Interpretation, Political Orientation, and the Basic Liberties in the Dobbs Decision" (12-end)
  
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===PP1 Stage 1: "What We Owe Strangers" Position Paper: 1000 words===
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===In-class===
  
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:*'''Stage 1''': Please write an 1000 word maximum answer to the following question by '''April 6, 2021 11:59pm.'''
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:*Assign SW3: What are Basic Liberties?  Small group discussion on Personal information and family liberties.
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::*'''Topic''': What do we owe strangers, as a matter of morality and justice?  Consider both strangers in your own country and strangers outside your country. Draw on your previous thinking about personal "justified partiality" as well as your understanding of culturally evolved values to develop your view. Think also about the kinds of "goods" (economic, in-kind, human rights) we are or are not obligated to offer strangers, depending perhaps on whether they are in your community, nation, or world. Finally, try to use the theories of justice and other concepts and principles we have developed to formulate an answer to the question, "What do we owe strangers?"  Your answer should provide a well-organized and clear rationales (Logic) reflecting your assessment of relevant course materials (Content) or other resources. It should show awareness and engage some of the diversity of viewpoint on this question.
 
  
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::*'''Keep in mind''': 
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===Tribe, "Deconstructing Dobbs" 2nd half (p. 8-12)===
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:::*You are answering this prompt in the "first person plural" - we.  This is not just a statement of personally felt obligation, but your view about what we should all accept as our collective obligation. 
 
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:::*Your readers (at least 5) will not necessarily share your view, so you should say why your position should be acceptable to someone with a different point of view.
 
  
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:*'''Advice about collaboration''': I encourage you to collaborate with other students, but only up to the point of sharing ideas, references to class notes, and your own notes.  Collaboration is part of the academic process and the intellectual world that college courses are based on, so it is important to me that you have the possibility to collaborate.  It's a great way to make sure that a high average level of learning and development occurs. The best way to avoid plagiarism is to '''NOT''' share text of draft answers or outlines of your answer.  Keep it verbal.  Generate your own examples.
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:*Tribe thinks only a religious view of the embryo supports this view.  Note citation of Rawls Theory of Justice and article 4 of Constitution.  "Republican form of government" seems antithetical to a theocracy.  Other evidence that the court is reflecting a preference for Christian thought in reading the 1st amendement: 
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::*Tribe sees elements of a "tyranny of the minority" in Dobbs, but also in Kennedy v Bremmerton (religious fball coach).  He also thinks that the fact that 3 of the justices were appointed by a president who lost the majority vote is relevant.
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::*Tribe also feels the court Majority is being inconsistent in its interpretive theory in the case of Bruen, which treats the right to concealed carry of guns as grounded in the 2nd amendment, even though the types of guns did not exist in our "history and traditions".   
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:*In the remaining 2-3 pages Tribe extends his argument against the conservative court by objecting to other putatively radical decisions it has made.
  
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:*Prepare your answer and submit it in the following way:
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===More "language of basic liberties"===
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::# '''Do not put your name in the file or filename'''.  You may put your student id number in the file.  Put a word count in the file.
 
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::# In Word, check "File" and "Inspect Documents" to make sure your name does not appear as author.
 
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::# Format your answer in double spaced text in a 12 point font, using normal margins. 
 
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::# Save the file in the ".docx" file format using the file name "ObligationStrangers".
 
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::# Log in to courses.alfino.org.  Upload your file to the PP1: What We Owe Strangers dropbox'''. 
 
  
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:*'''Stage 2''': Please evaluate '''four''' student answers and provide brief comments and a score. Review the [[Assignment Rubric]] for this exercise.  We will be using the Flow, Content, and Insight areas of the rubric for this assignment. Complete your evaluations and scoring by '''TBD, 2020, 11:59pm.''' 
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:*In addition to your liberty to control your body, bodily autonomy, and intimacy, we recognize (by statute and judicial opinion) basic liberties to control some personal information and to direct the upbringing of your children (parental rights) and other protections for family life. At a practical level, parental rights often involve schooling, which is local in our society.  Still, cases reach the Supreme Court.  
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::*Use [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1_WeGn0XsNxLPgHixmA88gbNp4lLcYxvxIs0bSEVLgHvP8A/viewform?usp=sf_link this Google Form] to evaluate '''four''' peer papers.  The papers will be in our shared folder, but please '''do not''' edit or add comments to the papers directly.  This will compromise your anonymity.
 
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::*To determine the papers you need to peer review, I will send you a key with animal names in alphabetically order, along with saint names.  You will find your animal name and review the next four (4) animals' work.
 
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::*Some papers may arrive late.  If you are in line to review a missing paper, allow a day or two for it to show up.  If it does not show up, go ahead and review the next animal in the list until you have four reviews. This assures that you will get enough "back evaluations" of your work to get a good average for your peer review credit. 
 
  
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:*'''Stage 3''': I will grade and briefly comment on your writing using the peer scores as an initial ranking. Up to 28 points.
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:*Personal Information Examples
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::*A law requiring you to share your browsing history with the government. 
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::*A law requiring you to share your medical records with the government.
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::*A law requiring you to send a full frontal nude picture of yourself to the government every 5 years.
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::*A law allowing anyone to discover your bank account balances.
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::*A law requiring you to explain your reasons for divorce to a judge (before “no fault”divorce).
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::*A law conferring a “right to be forgotten” (to have internet information about you deleted).  This is a right guaranteed in the European Union.
  
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:*'''Stage 4''': Back-evaluation: After you receive your peer comments and my evaluation, take a few minutes to fill out this quick "back evaluation" rating form: [https://forms.gle/KTSJLu11mi7ZHW8y7]. '''Fill out the form for each reviewer, but not Alfino.'''  Up to 10 points, in Q&W.
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:*Family and Parental Rights Examples
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::*A law prohibiting parents from exempting their kids from some sex education programs.
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:::*But maybe not: A law allowing parents to exempt their kids from hearing basic public health information, including information about sexually transmitted diseases.
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::*A law requiring family members to testify against each other.
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:::*But maybe not: A law preventing the government from checking on child welfare and acting on serious problems, including removing children from their parents’ care.
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::*A zoning ordinance prohibiting grandparents from living with their families (actual controversy).
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::*A law prohibiting home schooling.
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::*A law prohibiting parents and their children from receiving gender affirming care.
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:::*But maybe not: A law allowing parents to keep their kids from formal schooling of any kind.
  
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::*Back evaluations are due '''TBD, 2020, 11:59pm'''.
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===SW3: What are Basic Liberties (800 words)===
  
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===The "other side" of Justified Partiality: What We Owe Strangers===
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:*'''Stage 1''': Please write an 800 word maximum answer to the following question by '''Saturday, April 8, 2023, 11:59pm.'''
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::*Topic: Drawing on resources from this unit and your own research and reflection, devote the first half of your essay to these questions: What is your theory of basic liberties?  What makes something a basic liberty and why are they important?  (Use about 200-250 words for this.) Then, in rest of your essay, apply your view about basic liberties to the abortion question, taking into account our work in this unit. ''You should focus your analysis initially on the Dobbs decision'', showing how you would have decided it based on your view of whether abortion is a constitutionally protected basic liberty.
  
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:*Unpacking the prompt:
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:*'''Advice about collaboration''': Collaboration is part of the academic process and the intellectual world that college courses are based on, so it is important to me that you have the possibility to collaborate.  I encourage you to collaborate with other students, but only up to the point of sharing ideas, references to class notes, and your own notes, '''verbally'''.  Collaboration  is also a great way to make sure that a high average level of learning and development occurs in the class.  The best way to avoid plagiarism is to NOT share text of draft answers or outlines of your answer.  Keep it verbal.  Generate your own examples. 
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::*The "goods" -- that typically occupy discussions of Justice or Beneficence. 
 
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:::*'''Economic justice''' -- Are there economic outcomes in a society or in the world that would be fundamentally unfair or unjust?  Should we think of Rawls "veil of ignorance" on a global level?
 
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:::*'''Aid''' -- Some argue that valuing human dignity obligates us to provide direct aid in some circumstances, such as disaster relief.  Others go further, and argue that we are obligated to help the "bottom billion" to develop productive economies. Are these just good things to do and not obligatory or are they obligations?
 
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:::*'''Promotion of rights and anti-discrimination''' -- Typically, people who feel that "rights promotion" is an international obligation of justice advocate for their government to use foreign policy to promote rights.  Others might argue that that could involve interfering with another culture or countries' sovereignty.  Does your position obligate you to promote rights and and anti-discrimination in your society and/or globally?
 
  
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::*"Strangers in your own community, nation, world" -- You may have different principles or degrees of obligation for different types of strangers. For example, you may not believe obligations to promote justice go beyond borders, but you might still believe that personal or collective beneficence is a good thing.  Or, you may address all of these groups with the same theory of obligation.
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:*Prepare your answer and submit it in the following way. '''You will lose points''' if you do not follow these instructions:
  
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::*"Draw on your previous thinking about justified personal paritiality" -- For some of you, this earlier work may set a "baseline" for thinking about obligations to strangers.  Consider the positions we outlined during last class: '''Tribalism, Post-tribal Urbanism, Utilitarian Globalism, Extreme Altruism'''.  You may want to use versions of these in your position.
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::# To assure anonymity, you must remove your name from the the "author name" that you may have provided when you set up your word processing application. For instructions on removing your name from an Word or Google document, [[https://wiki.gonzaga.edu/alfino/index.php/Removing_your_name_from_a_Word_file click here]].
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::# Format your answer in double spaced text, in a typical 12 point font, and using normal margins. Do not add spaces between paragraphs and indent the first line of each paragraph.   
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::# '''Do not put your name in the file or filename'''.  You may put your student ID number in the file.  Always put a word count in the file. Save your file for this assignment with the name: '''BasicLiberties'''.
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::# To turn in your assignment, log into courses.alfino.org, click on the '''"1 SW3 - Points"''' dropbox.
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::# If you cannot meet a deadline, you must email me about your circumstances (unless you are having an emergency) '''before''' the deadline or you will lose points.  
  
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::*"Use your understanding of culturally evolved values" -- We have been studying the origins and value of cooperation, as well as psychological adaptations of WEIRD culture, such as impersonal prosociality, impartiality in rules, and other traits that seem to orient our obligations away from kin and friends.  There is some evidence that these psychological adaptations facilitate markets and some forms of justice. If you endorse these aspects of WEIRD culture, you may draw on them in thinking about your obligations to strangers.  "Post-tribal Urbanism" is an example of this.  We have also studied two theories (Haidt and Hibbing) that help us think about standing challenges we face as a social species. These are all resources you may select from and make use of depending upon your concerns.
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:*'''Stage 2''': Please evaluate '''four''' student answers and provide brief comments and a score. Review the [[Assignment Rubric]] for this exercise.  We will be using the Flow and Content areas of the rubric for this assignment. Complete your evaluations and scoring by '''TBD, 2023, 11:59pm.'''
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::*To determine the papers you need to peer review, open the file called "#Key.xls" in the shared folder. You will see a worksheet with saint names in alphabetically order, along with animal names.  Find your saint name and review the next four (4) animals' work below your animal name. If you get to the bottom of the list before reaching 4 animals, go to the top of the list and continue.   
  
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::*Draw on "theories of justice and other concepts" --  
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::*Use [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSca2C-a7XJpi09qCt3wAd1jmi5gPJ2vR-6I3L8ZQDNQ4ZOQwA/viewform?usp=sf_link this Google Form] to evaluate '''four''' peer papers. Submit the form once for each review.
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:::*Motivational resources: self-interest and altruism. 
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:::*Theoretical resources:
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::*Some papers may arrive late.  If you are in line to review a missing paper, allow a day or two for it to show up.  If it does not show up, go back to the key and review the next animal's paper, continuing until you get four reviews. Do not review more than four papers.
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::::*'''Rawls' Theory of Justice''' -- which addresses both rights and economic justice.
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::::*'''Duty to an ideal'''.  This could be a Kantian ideal of supporting reason and autonomy in others, or it could be a more traditional ideal about human dignity and the importance of supporting human life.  You may certainly draw on values from your faith commitments and life experience, but try to explicate them in ways that might be attractive to those who do not share your particular faith.  
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:*'''Stage 3''': I will grade and briefly comment on your writing using the peer scores as an initial ranking.  Assuming the process works normally, most of my scores probably be within 1-2 points of the peer scores, plus or minus.
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::::*'''Virtue Ethics''' -- Promoting human virtues may require specific sorts of aid or support.
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:::*'''Utilitarianism''' -- The principle of utility has several theoretical virtues.  For meeting acute human needs, it gives us a way of prioritizing need and calculating benefits. Accepting the "equal happiness" principle allows you to compare goods globally (a latte vs. saving a life).  
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:*'''Stage 4''': Back-evaluation: After you receive your peer comments and my evaluation, take a few minutes to fill out this quick "back evaluation" rating form: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdgKCYITDTSOOHcvC3TAVNK-EZDsP4jiiyPj-7jdpRoNUsLPA/viewform?usp=sf_link].  '''Fill out the form for each reviewer, but not Alfino.'''  '''You must do the back evaluation to receive credit for the whole assignment.'''  Failing to give back-evaluations unfairly affects other classmates.
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:::*'''Libertarianism''' -- A good starting point if you feel very minimal "collective" obligations (such as through taxation), but don't forget that Liberatarians answer questions of personal charity and beneficence just like everyone else.
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::*Back evaluations are due '''TBD, 2022, 11:59pm'''.

Latest revision as of 19:21, 30 March 2023

19: MAR 30

Assigned

  • Tribe, Lawrence. "Deconstructing Dobbs" (2nd half, 9-17)
  • Alfino, "Interpretation, Political Orientation, and the Basic Liberties in the Dobbs Decision" (12-end)

In-class

  • Assign SW3: What are Basic Liberties? Small group discussion on Personal information and family liberties.

Tribe, "Deconstructing Dobbs" 2nd half (p. 8-12)

  • Tribe thinks only a religious view of the embryo supports this view. Note citation of Rawls Theory of Justice and article 4 of Constitution. "Republican form of government" seems antithetical to a theocracy. Other evidence that the court is reflecting a preference for Christian thought in reading the 1st amendement:
  • Tribe sees elements of a "tyranny of the minority" in Dobbs, but also in Kennedy v Bremmerton (religious fball coach). He also thinks that the fact that 3 of the justices were appointed by a president who lost the majority vote is relevant.
  • Tribe also feels the court Majority is being inconsistent in its interpretive theory in the case of Bruen, which treats the right to concealed carry of guns as grounded in the 2nd amendment, even though the types of guns did not exist in our "history and traditions".
  • In the remaining 2-3 pages Tribe extends his argument against the conservative court by objecting to other putatively radical decisions it has made.

More "language of basic liberties"

  • In addition to your liberty to control your body, bodily autonomy, and intimacy, we recognize (by statute and judicial opinion) basic liberties to control some personal information and to direct the upbringing of your children (parental rights) and other protections for family life. At a practical level, parental rights often involve schooling, which is local in our society. Still, cases reach the Supreme Court.
  • Personal Information Examples
  • A law requiring you to share your browsing history with the government.
  • A law requiring you to share your medical records with the government.
  • A law requiring you to send a full frontal nude picture of yourself to the government every 5 years.
  • A law allowing anyone to discover your bank account balances.
  • A law requiring you to explain your reasons for divorce to a judge (before “no fault”divorce).
  • A law conferring a “right to be forgotten” (to have internet information about you deleted). This is a right guaranteed in the European Union.
  • Family and Parental Rights Examples
  • A law prohibiting parents from exempting their kids from some sex education programs.
  • But maybe not: A law allowing parents to exempt their kids from hearing basic public health information, including information about sexually transmitted diseases.
  • A law requiring family members to testify against each other.
  • But maybe not: A law preventing the government from checking on child welfare and acting on serious problems, including removing children from their parents’ care.
  • A zoning ordinance prohibiting grandparents from living with their families (actual controversy).
  • A law prohibiting home schooling.
  • A law prohibiting parents and their children from receiving gender affirming care.
  • But maybe not: A law allowing parents to keep their kids from formal schooling of any kind.

SW3: What are Basic Liberties (800 words)

  • Stage 1: Please write an 800 word maximum answer to the following question by Saturday, April 8, 2023, 11:59pm.
  • Topic: Drawing on resources from this unit and your own research and reflection, devote the first half of your essay to these questions: What is your theory of basic liberties? What makes something a basic liberty and why are they important? (Use about 200-250 words for this.) Then, in rest of your essay, apply your view about basic liberties to the abortion question, taking into account our work in this unit. You should focus your analysis initially on the Dobbs decision, showing how you would have decided it based on your view of whether abortion is a constitutionally protected basic liberty.
  • Advice about collaboration: Collaboration is part of the academic process and the intellectual world that college courses are based on, so it is important to me that you have the possibility to collaborate. I encourage you to collaborate with other students, but only up to the point of sharing ideas, references to class notes, and your own notes, verbally. Collaboration is also a great way to make sure that a high average level of learning and development occurs in the class. The best way to avoid plagiarism is to NOT share text of draft answers or outlines of your answer. Keep it verbal. Generate your own examples.
  • Prepare your answer and submit it in the following way. You will lose points if you do not follow these instructions:
  1. To assure anonymity, you must remove your name from the the "author name" that you may have provided when you set up your word processing application. For instructions on removing your name from an Word or Google document, [click here].
  2. Format your answer in double spaced text, in a typical 12 point font, and using normal margins. Do not add spaces between paragraphs and indent the first line of each paragraph.
  3. Do not put your name in the file or filename. You may put your student ID number in the file. Always put a word count in the file. Save your file for this assignment with the name: BasicLiberties.
  4. To turn in your assignment, log into courses.alfino.org, click on the "1 SW3 - Points" dropbox.
  5. If you cannot meet a deadline, you must email me about your circumstances (unless you are having an emergency) before the deadline or you will lose points.
  • Stage 2: Please evaluate four student answers and provide brief comments and a score. Review the Assignment Rubric for this exercise. We will be using the Flow and Content areas of the rubric for this assignment. Complete your evaluations and scoring by TBD, 2023, 11:59pm.
  • To determine the papers you need to peer review, open the file called "#Key.xls" in the shared folder. You will see a worksheet with saint names in alphabetically order, along with animal names. Find your saint name and review the next four (4) animals' work below your animal name. If you get to the bottom of the list before reaching 4 animals, go to the top of the list and continue.
  • Use this Google Form to evaluate four peer papers. Submit the form once for each review.
  • Some papers may arrive late. If you are in line to review a missing paper, allow a day or two for it to show up. If it does not show up, go back to the key and review the next animal's paper, continuing until you get four reviews. Do not review more than four papers.
  • Stage 3: I will grade and briefly comment on your writing using the peer scores as an initial ranking. Assuming the process works normally, most of my scores probably be within 1-2 points of the peer scores, plus or minus.
  • Stage 4: Back-evaluation: After you receive your peer comments and my evaluation, take a few minutes to fill out this quick "back evaluation" rating form: [1]. Fill out the form for each reviewer, but not Alfino. You must do the back evaluation to receive credit for the whole assignment. Failing to give back-evaluations unfairly affects other classmates.
  • Back evaluations are due TBD, 2022, 11:59pm.
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