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Daly -- S2020

Assignment 2a: Collecting and Curating

Working Texts:

• Michel Foucault, “Panopticism”

Writing Prompt: List three different texts that lend themselves to Foucault’s idea of panopticism. These can be news accounts, short stories, TV shows, images, etc. Provide a sentence or two describing each and how they might connect to panopticism. Include any useful links you find.

Submission Information

• Submit in a Google doc in your individual folder within your group folder.

• Due: Wednesday, March 4th by class time

Assignment 2b: Working with Foucault

Working Texts:

• Michel Foucault, “Panopticism”

Writing Prompt: Choose a concept from Foucault that you find helpful for thinking about what the author is accomplishing in his text. Where do you see this idea appearing specifically? You should make note of the page numbers here. Why is this idea interesting or troubling to you? How can it be used to understand disciplining within a community or disciplining of a community?

Submission Information

• 1 page; submitted through your Google Docs under your folder in Assignment 2.

• Due: Monday, March 9th by class time

Assignment 2c: Paper Topic Proposal

Working Texts:

• Michel Foucault, “Panopticism”

And

• Your second text

Writing Prompt: Write a short proposal for the text you wish to use in conversation with Foucault’s “Panopticism.” Why did you choose this text (why is it interesting)? How does it illuminate or help us understand Foucault’s text?

Submission Information

• 1 page; submitted through your Google Docs under Assignment 2 folder.

• Due: Wednesday, March 11th by class time

Assignment 2: Forwarding (Course Move: Engaging in a Conversation)

Working Texts:

• Michel Foucault, “Panopticism”

And one of the following:

• Your chosen text

Writing Prompt: For this assignment, you will analyze the interesting/troubling concept from Foucault that you identified in Assignment 2b and bring it into conversation with the text you’ve chosen to analyze. You will need to unpack and explain Foucault’s argument here and demonstrate how it shares a common thread with your chosen text. How does “Panopticism” help illuminate something about this text that we may not otherwise notice (or, alternatively, how does this text help illuminate “Panopticism”)? What are the benefits and limitations or bringing these two texts into conversation with one another? How do the rhetorical situations between the two differ and how does this shape their arguments?

Submission Information

• Rough draft: 4-5 pages or about 1,200-1,500 words; submitted through Google Docs under Assignment 2 folder with your name. Due: Monday, March 23rd by class time

• Final draft: 6-7 pages or about 1,800-2,100 words (remember to use the MLA format with a Works Cited page!); submitted through Husky CT Due: Saturday, March 28th at 11:59:59pm

Evaluation: This will be a graded paper. The project of this assignment is to successfully engage in a conversation with Michel Foucault’s “Panopticism.” Successful papers will clearly summarize and then unpack the idea(s) Foucault lays out in “Panopticism” and also summarize/explain the second chosen text. Utilizing close reading analysis, essays should trace a common thread of discussion moving through both texts, thus making a conversation visible. Essays should explain how “Panopticism” can be used to better understand the second text or how the second text helps us better understand “Panopticism,” while addressing the different rhetorical situations of each. Successful papers will also have a logical structure and form a cohesive project. Citations must be correctly handled and a Works Cited page must be included.