Authors and chapters:
Braeden Asbury: 46, 51, 52, and 55
Winnie Du: 24, 28, and 36
Addison Gray: 12, 16, and 59
Masta Alvin Mangera: 17, 38, and 64
Connor O'Dowd: 20, 39, and 42
Alexander Tabbah: 40, 45, and 50
Natalie Waters: 4, 6, and 31
"Overcome difficulties by multiplying them."
-Apocryphally attributed to Walter Benjamin on The Ministry for the Future page 481
Essay 2 Prompt: Website Commentary, Annotation, and Hyperlinks
The second essay in this course will consist of your commentary, annotations,
hyperlinks, and images related to 3 or 4 chapters of your choice from The
Ministry for the Future.
The chapters don’t have to go together theme-wise, and your commentary
doesn’t have to form a coherent whole. However, each section of commentary
should include the following: 1) a brief summary of the chapter, 2) a sense of its
function in the arc of the novel, 3) commentary, annotations, and hyperlinks
related to Robinson’s project/vision of a transition to real sustainability, 4)
commentary, annotations, and hyperlinks related to the current reality, 5) an
assessment of the feasibility of the project/vision, and 6) a Works Cited at
the bottom that includes all cited sources and images, including the chapter
itself.
See the collective website Chapter 3 and your classmates' work for examples.
Length and Format: 1500 words minimum with a Works Cited at the bottom of
each webpage. Platform details forthcoming and will be made as simple as
possible for everyone’s sake. Presentation of this work will occur during Week
11.
AI guidelines: AI tools are permissible for the following: Generating ideas,
finding sources, and revising, editing, and proofreading your original writing. They
are not permissible for the following: Generating text. We’ll refer to the following
guides under The Elements of Expository Essay & Other Writing Guides module
as questions arise: Purdue University Artificial Intelligence and OU Artificial
Intelligence.