QUESTION TO ANSWER: What is the free lunch puzzle? Which explanation of it do you find most compelling? Why?.
DESCRIPTION OF ASSIGNMENT:
Mini-papers have three purposes. They provide a way for me to give credit for careful class preparation; they give you the opportunity to clarify your thinking by practicing analytic writing; and they prepare you for the quizzes. Mini-papers are typed and are not longer than half a page, single-spaced, using standard margins and a font size of 12 (400 words max). If a mini-paper is not handed in on time, or if you hand in a mini-paper from the wrong block, you will receive no credit for it. Please note that all submissions will be screened for potential plagiarism. The mini-papers ask you a question about the assigned reading(s) and you will write a short composition that supports your answer to the question. To do this successfully, you must be able to support your answer with textual evidence, and guard against the tendency to ignore textual evidence that might undermine your thesis. The main objectives of this assignment are to develop your skills at a) thinking through complex texts that do not always provide simple answers, and b) writing a focused argument. There will be more than one persuasive answer to the question I ask. Thus the criteria for a mini-paper are: (1) Clarity: do you make your supporting points clear? (2) Precision and accuracy: do you draw your supporting points from specific places in the text, using quotation marks and page numbers appropriately, and do you make correct assertions about the text? (3) Comprehensiveness and balance: have you identified the textual passages important to this question? (4) Organization: do you present your arguments in a coherent order with smooth transitions and grammatical sentences?- Please put the prompt to which you are responding at the top of the paper. It will not count against your word limit. – Please make sure your paper is 12 point font, times new roman, single spaced. – We encourage you not to put your name on the document. We use Carmen’s anonymous grading feature; therefore, including names defeats this goal. – Cite the readings to which you are referring – either by referencing the author or using end-citations (Zakaria p. 24). i attached the material to use please you insight from the text
