Instructor
Professor Philip Hillmer
Office: 461 Grainger Engineering Library
Office Telephone: 217.333.2505
E-mail: hillmer@illinois.edu
Description

National Park Service. The highest [Blue Ridge] Parkway elevations south of Asheville. http://www.nps.gov/media/photo/gallery.htm?id=2F847536-1DD8-B71C-0784802370627E46
The course fulfills credit as an upper-division class in advanced composition, for which the University of Illinois requires twenty to thirty pages of revised writing as a minimum standard. In order to fulfill this requirement, each member of the class will write and revise a personal mission statement reflecting on your life work and career path (three pages), two response papers — an initial article analysis (three pages) and a substantive paper on normative ethical theories (five pages) — plus a final research paper of your own choosing (nine pages or more in length). All members of the course will also give a five-minute presentation on their research project at the end of the semester, followed by questions from the class. The research paper and class presentation function together as the final examination for the course.