Your final essay combines 2 of your best Discussion Board posts with a reflection on the Sociological Imagination.
Please re-read C Wright Mills’ The Sociological Imagination, and re-read your answer to the question of what it means to have a sociological imagination in your own life. https://sites.middlebury.edu/utopias/files/2013/02/The-Promise.pdf
The purpose of the essay is to combine the two Discussion Board posts into a coherent autobiographical essay about the Sociological Imagination in your own life. You may include your short writing on the sociological imagination from the beginning of the semester, but it does not count toward the 2 required Discussion Board posts. For the 2 Discussion Board Posts, use something from Week 6 or later, that is about one of the main readings.
You will copy and paste the two Discussion Board posts you wrote, and then write an overall new introduction, a brief summary explanation/definition of the Sociological Imagination, revise and improve the DB posts, and then write a new long conclusion. The long conclusion discusses how your Boards Discussion show evidence of you having a sociological imagination, and explain how your sociological imagination has improved over the semester.
This process will help you review what it means to have a sociological imagination, and relate it to the writing that you did this semester.
Outline:
Overall Introduction to your combined essay – explaining the purpose of the essay to the reader (150words)
Brief summary or definition of the Sociological Imagination (200 words)
Transition to 1st Discussion Board post
Edited and revised 1st Discussion Board Post
Transition to 2nd Discussion Board post
Edited and revised 2nd Discussion Board post
Reflective conclusion that discusses how your blogs give evidence of you having a sociological imagination, and explain how your sociological imagination has improved over the semester. (450 words)
