CRTW201 Essay #4 Assignment – Section 005
Length – 4-6 pages, exclusive of Work Cited page, Times New Roman 12 point, 1" margins on all sides
Sources – 3-5 sources from BOOKS, including textbooks, or SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ARTICLES. Please do not use websites, or Google or Yahoo search engines. Instead, use Dacus Library’s catalogue to and databases.
Due Dates – Working thesis, emailed to me by 5:00, Wednesday, April 22, 2009. I will remove your names from the theses and compile them into a list which we will review in a class activity on Thursday, April 23.

Final draft – DUE AT FINAL.

Topic and Assignment – Choose any two of the intellectual traits/virtues listed below. Write an essay in which you argue for the ways, or persuade your audience of the ways, in which those two intellectual traits/virtues inform (affect, impact, enter into) the learning and/or the professional practice of the discipline you are studying (your major here at Winthrop).
Intellectual Traits – intellectual autonomy (207), intellectual courage (41), confidence in reason (41), intellectual empathy (130), intellectual humility (130), intellectual integrity (168-168, 202-203), intellectual perseverance (80). Citations refer to Nosich.

Notes
1. Carefully reread chapter 3 in Nosich before you begin to write your essay and start thinking about the logic of your discipline.
2. Make sure you define your key terms – your discipline, your profession, the two intellectual traits/virtues.
3. Your definitions should be yours and you should ground your argument and support in these personal definitions. Avoid depending on dictionaries or Nosich for definitions of traits or on textbooks for definitions of your discipline. While you should feel free to consult these sources, you should ultimately define these terms in your own words from your own perspective.
3. Remember that your essay is to be argumentative with your argumentative stance stated in your thesis, an introduction, a body made up of supporting reasons and/or examples and/or evidence, a concession, and a conclusion.
4. Please consider showing me a working thesis, working outline, and/or rough draft of your essay while you are in the process of writing.