True confessions time... I have embarked on a journey to finish my Bachelor's degree. I started on this original journey back in 1981 and was focused on a degree in Communications. This time, however, I'm doing it solely online with University of Phoenix and focusing on a degree in Information Technology. You know, so far it's proving to be a good strategy. The flexibility of not having to physically appear in a classroom each week is great. I tend to travel a bit for work so that kept me away from classes in the past. Now, I'm learning quite a bit, keeping up on the syllabus, and finding the learning quite fun.
So, what's the dilemma? My Communications course has a persuasive essay at the heart of it. I am to write, for the final, a persuasive essay on the topic of "Outsourcing Jobs to Foreign Countries." I am to take a pro or con position on it. Here's the dilemma... I've no idea if my professor is open-minded or is another product of the socialist University system.
So, your opinion is now being solicited. Do I play it safe by writing a con position? or do I stay true to my own principles and write a pro position essay? If I do stick to my principles of free trade and unbridled Capitalism, anyone have any ideas on where I might find good supporting data?
Yikes! Even as aware as I like to think I am, I really didn't think I'd find myself in this predicament!
UPDATE Y'ALL: I wrote the pro-outsourcing position essay and received a good grade! Thank God there are open-minded intellectuals teaching at some institutions! Wooohooo!
So, what's the dilemma? My Communications course has a persuasive essay at the heart of it. I am to write, for the final, a persuasive essay on the topic of "Outsourcing Jobs to Foreign Countries." I am to take a pro or con position on it. Here's the dilemma... I've no idea if my professor is open-minded or is another product of the socialist University system.
So, your opinion is now being solicited. Do I play it safe by writing a con position? or do I stay true to my own principles and write a pro position essay? If I do stick to my principles of free trade and unbridled Capitalism, anyone have any ideas on where I might find good supporting data?
Yikes! Even as aware as I like to think I am, I really didn't think I'd find myself in this predicament!
UPDATE Y'ALL: I wrote the pro-outsourcing position essay and received a good grade! Thank God there are open-minded intellectuals teaching at some institutions! Wooohooo!
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Personally, I'd find the professor's position, stick to it like glue, and do an impressive job doing it. If it's contrary to yours, so much the better, it's good education to know your enemies, both political and otherwise, and to learn his position as well as yours, and know it better than he does. I'm a complete cynic concerning the fairness of academics. Keep your cards and views close to your chest.
If it makes you feel better, asssemble documentation for an article or piece of your own, reflecting your own positions, later, when you are out from under this person's immediate thumb.