Writing Homework Help

Essay prompt:What will you take away from this class that will change how you pursue a good life and make (or refuse to make) a lasting contribution? Focus on the most challenging and important lessons for you and reflect on how they could be incorporated into your day-to-day habits and long-term commitments. To support your ideas, you will need to directly cite at least one of our contemporary authors/films (David Foster Wallace, Freedom Summer, Tad Waddington, or Brene Brown) and at least two philosophers we have studied from The Good Life anthology (Epictetus, Emerson, Nietzsche, Lao Tzu, de Beauvoir, or Noddings).

You are very welcome to disagree and offer counterarguments to our authors’ approaches. You can also discuss the process and important questions you will need to explore in order to discover your final purpose without knowing for certain what it will be. College is an important transitional moment for most people–a beginning whose end you may not see now. It is also one of your best opportunities to build an amazing foundation for the rest of your life–which is why it is worth asking these questions now. Your essay should be written in the first-person and should support your largest vision. I want to read essays that are original, meaningful, insightful, and authentic. You’ve had an entire semester to consider these ideas, and I expect you to have the courage to challenge yourself and really show everything you’ve learned. I suggest that you talk over the question with others and spend some time freewriting to dig into the unique point of view *you* have to offer.

Guidelines for using evidence

• You should use ~one quote per paragraph. The quote should not be longer than one sentence. Make sure that you include a page number and the name of the author. Examples: Nietzsche defines happiness as “swinging in a hammock on the beach” (293). Happiness is “swinging in a hammock on the beach” (Nietzsche 293).
• Quotes should be directly related to the author’s philosophy, not a stray comment.
• Your interpretation of the quote should be accurate. Be careful not to distort the author’s meaning for the sake of your argument.
• The quote chosen should be the one that best supports your point. If another author or another passage would have been stronger, I will have expected you to have used that reference instead.