Along with our textbook curriculum and readings, you will be working on an “autobiography” that expresses events, interests, and features of your life in logical form. Each section of the autobiography corresponds to a different formal or informal logic skill that we will study. We will devote time in class to drafting each part in a workshop-style setting. You will then revise the worksheets on your own, print out a clean copy, and put them together in a booklet at the end of the term.

Important things to know now:

• Save your work!!! You will need to keep your in-class drafts, complete them at home if necessary, and revise all of the sections to turn in on a clean copy of the booklet at the end of the term.
• If you are absent on a workshop day, it is your responsibility to find out what you missed and seek help in office hours as needed.
• The drafts will not be graded. However, productive use of the workshop time will make it much easier for you to produce a high-quality final version.
• If you keep up with the work and complete the section relevant to each topic throughout the term, putting together the final booklet should not be too time-consuming. If you delay work on it until the end, expect to find it very challenging and difficult to complete.

This assignment is not designed to require anyone to divulge sensitive personal information. The topics are intended to encourage you to apply your logic skills to a topic you know well – yourself! The hope is that you will have fun doing this, in a thoughtful way that is suitable for sharing publicly. If any part of this assignment raises privacy concerns for some reason, please let your instructor know.

Grading: The final version of this assignment is worth 100 points (10% of your overall course grade). The rubric that will be used to grade it can be found in a later chapter of this book. It would be wise to check the criteria for each section before you turn it in, to ensure that your project meets all of the requirements.