Exercises — Week 7: Conclusion — Final Major Essay
3 hands-on tasks. Do them in order; each one feeds the Canvas item it names.
20 min · reasoning
1. The dinner party
- Choose one question from the course (What is knowledge? What is a just law? Can we be certain of anything?).
- Seat three thinkers from three different weeks at the table.
- Write one line each thinker would say, then one line where two of them clash.
- Write the sentence that resolves or sharpens the clash — that sentence is your Final Essay thesis.
Turn in / bring: The dialogue and the thesis sentence.
25 min · practice
2. Final review runs
- Run the Final review on this site.
- For every miss, open that week's notes and read the matching line aloud.
- Run it again. Stop when three runs in a row clear 85%.
Turn in / bring: Three scores above 85% — then take the Week 7 quiz for the gate.
60 min · writing
3. Final Major Essay — submit clean
- Confirm the prompt and rubric in Canvas.
- Thesis, three thinkers, textual evidence for each, one clash, one objection, one reply, one conclusion.
- Read it once for fallacies and once for passive voice.
- Check every citation has an author and a section.
- Save as a file. Upload to Canvas. Screenshot the confirmation.
Turn in / bring: The Final Major Essay in Canvas before the course-end deadline.