Thinking Sys

CASIMIR, Hi! I wanted to try and provide you some leeway of due dates. This paper isn’t due till next week Wed the 14th (assignment 4). I won’t know the short post info until this Friday. This paper is on The Basics. Chapter One of Thinking in Systems: a Primer. By Donella H. Meadows. Pages 1-34.

The critical summary is a 2 page (double spaced) maximum 3 page assignment.

You will spend approximately 1 to 1.5 pages giving a succinct summary of the main point or argument of the reading, with an emphasis on explaining aspects of the reading most relevant to your own critical engagement.

For the second 1 to 1.5 pages (approximately) you with offer your own critical engagement with the text. This may take many forms. For example: criticizing an aspect of the author’s argument; bringing in new lines of support for the authors position; raising and addressing important but unaddressed questions arising from the article; applying ideas or concepts from the text in a different context; considering how some ideas in the text may complement or conflict with ideas in other relevant texts related to the subject domain.