Due: 4 Feb (in or before class)  (10% of course mark)

What's Expected
        The purpose of this paper is to provide you with a short exercise in writing (and to provide me with feedback on some aspects of the course material). Consider some part of the arguments/ideas presented in the relevant readings, give your understanding of it, and your evaluation of its effectiveness or usefulness. Does the argument/idea appear sensible? Can it be used to understand other material as well? Does it have any application in your own situation? Does it seem to be a misinterpretation of the material? Could the material  be better understood through another idea or presentation? And so on.
        For this essay, there's an assigned topic (below), but it just specifies the field you're to play in. You have to decide what to do there.
        The essay is to be just one page (or a little more) and part of the exercise is to see if you can say something significant in a very short space. Write carefully (compress), but write in essay style, with full sentences, etc. The idea is for you to take a position and to present an argument for it: quickly. Use this type-size (12-point), double-space the lines, and give your essay its own title.

Paper #1:

            Critically examine some central theme in the area of "progress and development", making at least some use of readings from sections I. &/or II. of the course readings.