a) Summarize and display an understanding of Foucault’s arguments about Bentham’s panopticon and its relevance to our understanding of the emergenceof the surveillance society;
b) Incorporates/uses any class handouts, videos, lecture and discussion, and/or examples/insights provided by student from their data shadow exercise in the service of understanding (a) above and (c) below;
c) Articulates the impact of the reading/discussion on one’s thinking about the surveillance society; and
d) Displays a writing style that reflects clarity/organization/appropriate grammatical construction and meets the paper length requirements.
As you approach writing this paper, keep in mind the question: What have you learned from your reading of Foucault? How has this impacted your thinking? Regarding your “thinking” though, guard against the tendency to be seduced by one’s emotions as reflected in words such as “wild,” “wicked,” and “scary.” At this stage, you should be well beyond “amazement” and into a far more analytic mode that is sociological in focus. You can relate this to your respective “major” disciplines as well if this helps you to demonstrate impact on your thinking. Remember, this is not solely a “reaction” or opinion paper—there is room for that under item (c) above. However, that is not the only focus of this exercise.
I would review your reading journal or article margins for the sorts of questions/issues you routinely raised or any of those “aha” moments or “***” notations and ask yourself: “What was the insight I was having that generated that experience?” This might be a good source of ideas for this section of the paper.
1. Typed-- double spaced with 1.00 inch margins on left/right top/bottom (standard default for most Word docs…but double check)
2. 5-7 pages. I think you can accomplish the goals of the paper within this limit. Note: Have a separate cover page with your name/date and assignment name. The cover page does not count in your page total.
3. Use a 12 point sized font: 11 ptis for cramming within the limit; 10 pt and below is microscopic and verges on the preposterous; 14 pt raises concerns that you are having a different sort of writing problem and 16 pt should be restricted to title page only. Get the pt?
4. Keep quotes to a minimum: no more thanthree for the paper. Use your own words—it is better to state in your own words what an author is saying, rather than paraphrasing in ways that not only make it clear that you are using the author’s words, but that you really don’t know what the author is writing
The following is taken from the OU Kresge Library Website which not only defines plagiarism but also offers guidelines for avoiding plagiarism:
Plagiarism is defined by the Modern Language Association (MLA) as "the use of another person's ideas, information, or expressions without acknowledging that person's work" [MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th ed., p. 66]. Examples of plagiarism include copying from a source word for word without citing the original source, as well as