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Magnum OpusMagnum Opus:
OK, it's a grand title, perhaps even pretentious, certainly portentous.
But I want you to think grandly here. The goal is this: you are to
write a 10-page essay which in some sense will be a personal
intellectual history, in which you explore some personal or
professional goal with reference to personal experiences, observations,
and readings that have significantly shaped that goal. This essay
should be in the tradition of John Henry Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua (Apology for His Life) or Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Those of you who have read Montaigne's Essays
have an additional model to draw on. We will work on this essay all
quarter long, with a series of deadlines for planning, rough draft,
revisions and final copy. I thought I'd post here every
step Mr. Lovas takes us on the Magnum Opus. What I hope to do is this:
those of you who are interested can follow this progress through the
next two months and write your own "Magnum Opus", as he calls it. I'll
be posting my responses, drafts and whatnot here: http://group.deanza.edu/ChuiMichael/magnumopus/
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