Writing HW

Paper 1

Freedom, Privacy, and Technology

This assignment asks you to practice making and supporting scholarly arguments. In order to do that, please answer the question:

If they were alive today, how would Warren and Brandeis read our chapter from Dark Surveillance by Browne and “Privacy and Technology in the Twenty-First Century” by Rothstein?

To put this more bluntly, your paper must use Warren and Brandeis, “The Right to Privacy,” Browne’s chapter from Dark Surveillance and either one of the other two texts underlined above.

· Identify and understand 1-2 key concepts, ideas, or examples from those texts. Understand and articulate Warren and Brandeis’s concerns about and conceptions of privacy.

This assignment is surveilling you to see if:

You can create a series of arguments, supported by textual evidence, linking the concepts, concerns, laws, etc in Warren and Brandeis to those of the other texts. In other words, I am asking you to hypothesize how Warren and Brandeis might have responded to these texts. Note that you cannot actually know this since Warren and Brandeis are conveniently dead, which means that any assertion you make will be your own argument. Ask yourself: what would they have recognized, been surprised by, agreed or disagreed with in these texts? How would they have responded?

Specifically, I am looking for evidence of three skills:

* Ability to make plausible arguments

* Ability to use short quotes as evidence for arguments. Quotes must be shorter than 40 words. Remember that you can use parts of sentences and even change word endings as long as the grammar of your sentence fits the grammar of the quote. Further I am looking for evidence that you can integrate quotes into your discussion, thus avoiding what Graff and Birkenstein call “hit and run quotations” in They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing.

· The sophistication of your understanding of the concepts and concerns expressed in the texts. This is where your careful annotation will serve you well.

· Things To Do

Please begin your paper with an introductory paragraph explaining what the paper will do and which text you will be using. Use the author’s name and text title. Please use an advanced organizer that says something like “this paper will___” or “In this paper I ____” (I am fine with the use of first person voice to structure your introduction or arguments).

Use signal phrases with the author’s name to introduce quotes.

All quotes from the text must be thoroughly integrated (no “hit and run” quotations).

Do not begin or end of paragraph with a quote or with the words “this” or “that.” Any time you begin a sentence with these words, make sure the word clearly refers back to something in the previous sentence.

Start most paragraphs with an argument connecting the text to your issue. Then give evidence to support your assertion.

You will want to use the conditional “would,” “might,” and “could” since we cannot really know how Warren and Brandeis would read these texts.