This week’s Workbook is directly related to your course project. In this Workbook, you will explore how to recognize expert opinion, how to find authoritative, reliable, and acceptable sources for discussion posts and academic papers, as well as how to recognize authoritative, reliable, and competent evidence.
1. This is a Learning Assessment question.
Go to the ProCon website links to an external site.. Search for “Space Colonization”
Evaluate the ProCon website in terms of how useful it is as a source for an argumentative paper. Examine and analyze the “Top three pros and cons” of “Space Colonization.” Be sure to include the following information in your response:
Specify the topic you chose and include a link to that site in your answer.
Include the date when the information was last updated and the author.
Scan the footnotes and evaluate the quality of the listed sources.
What is the total number of sources cited?
How many of these footnotes are from scholarly sources?
How many are from media, such as cable channels, newspapers, or magazines?
If you are writing a paper where sources must be current within the last five years, how many sources would you be able to use?
At the end of your evaluation, write a brief statement of 50 to 80 words arguing whether ProCon is an appropriate, supportive source for an academic argumentative paper.
QUESTION STEM FOR QUESTIONS 2-6
The next 4 short-answer questions are based on this 2020 text by Micheli:
When responding to deductive arguments, it is essential to analyze the argument to determine the major premise. No matter how many arguments you present to Old Curmudgeon, his major premise is that lawns are sacred spaces; therefore, children who run on his lawn should be beaten. So until you attack his major premise and convince him that 1) lawns are not sacred spaces (his major premise), 2) a child running on his lawn is not an invasion of sacred space, and 3) it is wrong to beat children, you will never win this argument.
The next questions will show examples of the way a student used this writing in an academic paper. For each example, include the following in your response:
Does the usage conform to APA style?
Does the usage plagiarize the original text?
Provide a brief statement giving the reasons that support your answer.
Example response: “The usage conforms to APA style and does not plagiarize because it contains appropriate quotation marks around all direct quotes and includes in-text citation.”
2.This is a Learning Assessment question.
Example A: “No matter how many arguments you present to Old Curmudgeon, his major premise is that lawns are sacred spaces; therefore, children who run on his lawn should be beaten. So until you attack his major premise and convince him that 1) lawns are not sacred spaces, 2) a child running on his lawn is not an invasion of a sacred space, and 3) it is wrong to beat children, you will never win this argument.” (Micheli, 2020)
Include the following in your response:
Does the usage conform to APA style?
Does the usage plagiarize the original text?
Provide a brief statement giving the reasons that support your answer.
3.This is a Learning Assessment question.
Example B: No matter how many alternate arguments you may present to Mean Neighbor, his big idea is that kids who run on his lawn should be punished – so until you attack his big idea and convince him that 1) lawns are not something holy, 2) kids running on his lawn will not wreck it, and 3) it is wrong to beat kids, you will never win this argument.
Include the following in your response:
Does the usage conform to APA style?
Does the usage plagiarize the original text?
Provide a brief statement giving the reasons that support your answer.
4. This is a Learning Assessment question.
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