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WRIT 1702 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ad Hominem, Chemical Industry, Rachel Carson

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4 May 2018
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York University
Department
Writing
Course
WRIT 1702
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Jon Sufrin

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WRIT 1702
November 8, 2017
Reflective Writing 2 + Conflict Rhetoric
Make transition from review to essay
● Review: should you read the book
● Essay: what is the book about? (i.e. its idea) What does he mean?
Don’t forget to use an academic voice! Also don’t let the monitor take over.
Thesis rules:
● What are you arguing and why do you think so. Answer directly if you must!
○ Link topic sentence to your thesis
● Not plot summary, the thesis is an argument about the things that happened in the
book; can be something that can be disagreed with
Apply the pattern to every quote and display of evidence.
● Not just a summary of the source - explain in your own words what the author means,
and why that is important.
Weekly Reflections
● What is in Ryan’s article
○ At level 1 you are reporting and responding. Your critical incident must be
front and centre. The thing that sparked your interest, and your initial reaction.
○ At level 2, how does the critical incident relate to what you know already?
Bringing your own direct experience into it. You don’t have to agree with
anything said here. (What he said about men deciding on what women should
wear!) Evidence/Analysis
○ Level 3 (Reasoning) - what have other people (especially academics) said
about this? Bring in what other people have said. How can I use their
experience/expression to help me make sense of the critical incident? This is
just applying some theory to your writing, talk about what you are writing and
apply a theory to it. Like analyzing in an essay, but does not have to be in an
academic voice. Apply the process theorists and academic writers on this
course (the readings) or research and apply outside research on writing or
concepts from other courses.
○ Level 4 (Reconstructing) - once you have done levels 1 to 3 how would you
change things? How would you do it differently, or maybe perhaps how you
wouldn’t do it differently. Is there anything about your own process you would
change to become a better writer? What specific things did you learn to do
better and why? How would you do it?
○ There is a link between level 2 and 4, unless you relate this to your own skills
you will be unable to reconstruct anything. Always a critical incident at the
centre because that is what you are responding to.
Term Ending Paper
● Look at weekly reflections, were you looking at the same sorts of things? If you talk
about roughly the same thing for 4 or 5 weeks you should form a strong argument.
● Define the commonality between these links. The paper considers the whole term.
● Must be substantially original. Include a critical incident that you feel reflects the term
as a whole. What was your “aha” moment?
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What are you arguing and why do you think so. Not plot summary, the thesis is an argument about the things that happened in the book; can be something that can be disagreed with. Apply the pattern to every quote and display of evidence. Not just a summary of the source - explain in your own words what the author means, and why that is important. At level 1 you are reporting and responding. Your critical incident must be front and centre. The thing that sparked your interest, and your initial reaction. You don"t have to agree with anything said here. (what he said about men deciding on what women should wear!) This is just applying some theory to your writing, talk about what you are writing and apply a theory to it. Like analyzing in an essay, but does not have to be in an academic voice.

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Related Questions

Assignment Scenario:

As a new marketing associate with Barclays Bank, you are tasked with writing a critical essay summarizing what transpired during the investigation conducted by the United States Department of Justice into the abuse of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) interest rate regulated by the British Banker’s Administration. This essay, if chosen by your new employer, will be the report presented to the Board of Directors.

Write a 2–3 page, (not including a title and references page), double spaced, critical essay responding to the checklist items. For assistance with your Assignment, please use your textbook and library research resources. The instructions for you to execute this task are as follows:

Directions for completing this Assignment:

1. Read the “Barclays Bank: Banking on Ethics” case study: case study is below..

2. Learn how to write a critical essay: I will make the changes if need be..

3. Use APA format and citation style, provide a title page and references, and do not forget to use in text citations with their accompanying references so as to avoid plagiarism.

4. In your critical essay that includes your thesis, arguments, support, and conclusion, respond to the following:

Checklist:

● Describe the level of ethical development the executives at Barclays demonstrated

when manipulating the LIBOR interest rates.

● Did Barclays Bank neglect social responsibility? What could they have done to be more socially responsible?

● What actions regarding Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) could Barclays have engaged in after the scandal broke to set things right and ensure that such an event would not happen again?

● Describe what level of morality would have been demonstrated if executives at Barclays asked themselves, “Even though manipulating the LIBOR will increase company profits, is it the right thing to do in the long run?”

● Explain the importance of ethics and social responsibility in marketing as a result of your case study analysis.

Case study

Chapter 3

On February 28, 2012, the United States Department of Justice announced a criminal investigation into abuse of the LIBOR, an important interest rate regulated by the British Bankers’ Administration. Four months later, London-based Barclays Bank was fined more than $440 million by United States and English financial regulatory agencies for knowingly manipulating the LIBOR to its own advantage. The political and economic uproar that followed the exposure of Barclays’ actions led to several resignations (including that of Barclays’ CEO Bob Diamond) and further criminal investigations. Former governor of New York Eliot Spitzer called the incident “the mega-scandal of mega-scandals,” while journalist Robert Scheer christened it “the crime of the century.” The LIBOR, short for “London Interbank Offered Rate,” is the interest rate banks pay when they borrow money from each other. To calculate this rate, up to 20 influential British banks report their own proposed bank-to-bank lending rates. The highest and lowest rates are trimmed off, and the remaining rates are averaged, creating the LIBOR. A low LIBOR often points to financial stability, while a high LIBOR indicates that banks lack confidence in each other’s economic health. What Barclays was fined for was proposing artificially low bank-to-bank rates to make itself appear more stable than it actually was. However, further investigations indicated that Barclays colluded with other banks—and perhaps even the British government—to impact the LIBOR itself. An unnaturally low LIBOR would suggest greater economic stability than actually existed, misleading investors and loan-seekers in a potentially volatile market, and thus creating profit for the banks involved in the collusion. The rate manipulation carried out by Barclays affects not only London banks and business executives, but also small businesses and individuals—perhaps even you yourself. Because it has historically been considered trustworthy and economically accurate, the LIBOR is used all around the world as an interest rate and financial instrument benchmark. Everything from currency values (including the United States dollar) to multimillion-dollar corporate debts to home mortgages to individual student loans depend on the LIBOR. While it may not seem like it, each of these is a product that is marketed and sold. As loans and exchanges of varying types are banks’ primary sources of profit, banks compete to exchange these products within a market. At the consumer level, consider how many car and credit card commercials you have seen advertising a low interest rate. Hundreds of trillions of dollars’ worth of these financial products have been sold based on the LIBOR—a rate that may not in fact accurately reflect the world’s shaky economic standing. Journalists and economic analysts have been quick to reject the ethicality of Barclays’ actions. As information about the LIBOR scandal broke, TIME contributor Christopher Matthews wrote, “[Barclays’ alleged collusion] speaks to the moral compass, or total lack thereof, of the world’s financial professionals...the public and the government no longer trust the industry to set its own standards for acceptable behavior.” In a piece for

The Nation, Robert Scheer said, “The modern-day robber barons pillage with a destructive abandon totally unfettered by law or conscience and on a scale that is almost impossible to comprehend.” Dennis Kelleher, president of nonprofit financial watchdog organization Better Markets, Inc. was perhaps most condemnatory of all: “What we probably need is to wipe out this entire generation of so-called banking leaders who apparently have no ethics or integrity.” While the total sum of the LIBOR scandal’s consequences are yet to be seen, Barclays’ actions may go down in history as a monumental failure in business ethics and corporate social responsibility.