Pick a short passage in some of the reading this week, and give a brief account of its content. The passage might be anything from a single sentence to half a page or so, and I’m not expecting your account to be more than a page in length.

Your account will be too short to say everything that might be said about even a very short passage. In choosing what you do say, you should focus on the kind of questions that we tend to focus on in discussion—e.g., what seems to be meant by some claim? and on what does a claim seem to be based (i.e., what are the reasons that seem to intended to justify it)?.

I’ll give you feedback on these, but I won’t grade them: you will get full credit simply for making a serious effort. While I’d be happy to accept your assignment on paper, it is more convenient for me to receive work electronically. Since I haven’t set up the course Moodle site for assignments, that means using e-mail. A short assignment like this could itself be the content of an e-mail message, but I’m also happy to get e-mail attachments.