...BUILDING EVIDENCE-BASED ARGUMENTS DEVELOPING CORE PROFICIENCIES ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS / LITERACY UNIT GRADE 7 “Doping can be that last 2 percent.” OD LL DUCATION www.odelleducation.com OD LL DUCATION Page 1 EVIDENCE-BASED ARGUMENTATION Literacy – the integrated abilities to read texts closely, to investigate ideas and deepen understanding through research, to make and evaluate evidence-based claims, and to communicate one’s perspective in a reasoned way – is fundamental to participation in civic life. Thus, the importance of a literate citizenry was understood and expressed by Thomas Jefferson early in the life of our democratic nation. Today, students face the prospect of participating in a civic life that stretches beyond the boundaries of a single nation and has become increasingly contentious, characterized by entrenched polarization in response to complex issues. Citizens have access to a glut of information (some of which is nothing more than opinion passed off as fact) and are often bombarded by bombast rather than engaged in reasoned and civil debate. Learning the skills and habits of mind associated with argumentation – how to conceive and communicate “arguments to support claims, using valid reasoning and sufficient evidence” [CCSS W1] as well as how to “delineate and evaluate the argument[s]” and “the validity of the reasoning and relevance and sufficiency of the evidence” presented by others [CCSS R8] – is therefore...
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...work in research to less skilled jobs in fields such as nursing the sick and elderly, working on construction sites, running shops that are open 24/7, or taking care of households and their housework, often while the owners are pursuing their own career goals. American companies use of hiring immigrants’ instead of Americans benefits them in three different ways: first, immigrants fulfill the demand for low wage jobs; second, immigrants help countries increase their globalization; and third, immigrants help balance a countries economy. One reason that companies hire immigrants instead of Americans is to fulfill the demand for low wage jobs. While unemployed people in the U.S. first think about what their wages will be, immigrants from developing countries usually don’t care what kind of job it is as long as they get paid. So immigrants take certain low paid jobs that the existing populations of the U.S. don’t want. “Many have little choice but to do dirty, dangerous and difficult jobs.”(Annan, 148) By paying immigrants with lower than minimum wage, companies can lower the costs of production and final products, which increases the local productions in the U.S. Another reason that...
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...following winning essay was submitted in 2009 by a UK higher education student for an essay writing competition sponsored by the LearnHigher Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) network. The set title was ‘What is the point of referencing?’, and there was a maximum word limit of 1,500 words. There is a tutor commentary on the points made by the student to the left of the essay. The introduction to an essay is very important. Here the student immediately addresses the question. | What is the point of referencing?The reasons why accurate referencing is essential for academic work are not immediately apparent, particularly for students new to higher education. This essay will, therefore, examine why referencing is an essential part of academic writing and in the process address the question: ‘what is the point of referencing?’ | The student introduces the main reasons for referencing. | There are three main reasons for referencing. Firstly, referencing helps student writers to construct, structure, support and communicate arguments. Secondly, references link the writer’s work to the existing body of knowledge. Thirdly, only through referencing can academic work gain credibility. | Summarises the structure of the essay. | This essay will discuss these three aspects of referencing in detail, examine their validity, identify how referencing affects a writer’s writing style, and show how referencing helps students to present their own ideas and opinions in assignments...
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...A VISUAL GUIDE TO ESSAY WRITING Dr Valli Rao, Associate Professor Kate Chanock, and Dr Lakshmi Krishnan use a visual approach to walk students through the most important processes in essay writing for university: formulating, refining, and expressing academic argument. ‘MetamorTHESIS‘ Your main argument or thesis is your position in answer to the essay question. It changes and develops as you undertake your reading and research towards the essay. how to develop & communicate academic argument “I love the way the authors explain what an argument is. I also love the way they justify holding opinions in an academic context … A Visual Guide to Essay Writing shows you excellently how to communicate with your marker by employing your ‘authorial voice’.” - Dr Alastair Greig Head, School of Social Sciences The Australian National University Valli Rao Kate Chanock Lakshmi Krishnan “This is a great book ... clear, useful, beautifully conceived and produced ... an intriguing approach, one that will make sense to students and really assist their essay writing skills.” - Brigid Ballard & John Clanchy authors of the international best-seller Essay writing for students: a practical guide How effective structure supports reasoned argument in essays1 Discipline/field Topic Underlying question Introduce discipline/field/context and topic Roughly, 10–15% of essay length Why is this topic interesting from the perspective of the discipline/field...
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...essays, which required two completely different styles of writing. Another key element that has helped to illustrate the writing process for the two essays in my portfolio was the use of reading various types of literature. This included but was not limited to, editorials, newspaper articles, books, and specific disciplines of research in course related fields. These two essays essentially reshaped my ability to write for specific audiences...
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...Bellanger’s Rhetorical Argument is whether including a thesis is essential in developing a well written essay. First, He defined thesis as a statement that breaks down ideas to ones that can only be proven. Also, it’s the reason as to why writers tend to mainly focus on what they’re writing about. Secondly, Bellanger has the idea that Thesis should only be there for evidence purposes, to solve well defined problems. In reality, many people use their thesis as a way to include unnecessary research in their writing. Bellanger provides examples as to why using inquiry questions is helpful. One of the most important is including questions that lead to discovery. Also, something that’s even more helpful for the writer is getting a better conclusion...
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...Review Name: Devika Chand Id: 2015131951 Tutorial Group: 2 BIBLOGRAPHY DETAILS Review: Vijayakumar, L., 2004. Suicide prevention: the urgent need in developing countries. World Psychiatry, 3(3), pp. 158-159. Suicide prevention: the urgent need in developing countries Any death caused by disease or old age is natural and may not be accounted for any thriller to anyone (Palmer, 2009). It may be plaguing to know death which might had occurred due to unusual ways as these deaths could be stopped. There are no doubt of unnatural death over the world as social media usually highlights these in their broadcast over the air, television and even social networking sites such as Facebook. One of many unnatural death is suicide which may be a rising issue in developing countries as highlighted by Lakshmi Vijayakumar in her journal article Suicide prevention: the urgent need in developing countries. In her article, majority of the suicide occur in developing countries and major target countries are India and Chaina. Furthermore, when comparing the age group people who commit sucide in developed counties are between 15 to 25 year or elderly but developing countries the target group are married women and people below age of 30 years. Lakshmi Vijayakumar’s article also reveals method used for sucide in developing countries which are pesticides poisioning, hanging and self-immolation but as for developed countries their practise is expensive such as firearms, car exhuast and...
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...Helpsheet GOOD WRITING PLANNING & DRAFTING YOUR FIRST PAPER Use this sheet to help you: • understand the 5 main steps of writing • preparing and planning to write an essay or report 5 minute self test Consider the following questions before reading the helpsheet: • What are the five typical stages involved in completing an assignment or report? • What are directive words? Name three commonly used directive words used by lecturers in setting assignment questions? • How is “brainstorming” used in assignment preparation? • What’s the difference between a mind map, concept map and spider diagram and how can they be used in assignment preparation? • List some words and phrases commonly used in sequencing paragraphs in assignment writing? • How does one write an argument in an assignment? • What do you need to consider when editing an assignment? • What’s referencing? © The University of Melbourne 2010. These materials were produced by the Teaching and Learning Unit, University of Melbourne. The University of Sydney has reproduced these materials under licence from the University of Melbourne. Helpsheet GOOD WRITING Good writing is writing that effectively conveys to another person what is in a writer’s mind. In any profession, writing is very important, even in the professions that are not traditionally associated with writing, you will have to communicate with colleagues and clients. The value of writing is that putting something down on paper forces...
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...BUSM 4192 Introduction to Management Semester 1, 2012 Assessment Task 2: Essay Writing instructions and Marking Rubric This assessment task is an ESSAY. The RMIT College of Business requires you to use a particular style of essay writing which involves both the way the essay is structured and the way that you acknowledge other people’s ideas used in your work. The structuring of an essay is very clearly described in the RMIT Study and Learning Centre Essay Writing Skills Online Tutorial available online at: https://www.dlsweb.rmit.edu.au/lsu/content/2_AssessmentTasks/assess_tuts/essay_LL/index.html Your first step in preparing for this assessment task should be to complete the tutorial. Investing time before you start writing will result in a better essay. Your second step should be mastering the art of referencing. There are many styles of referencing in use in different disciplines and geographical locations. You are required to use the RMIT Business Referencing System. This is available to you via the Library website, in your course site on myRMIT and is uploaded to the assessments folder in the BUSM 4176 course site. This is a 50 page document but reading it through will be enormously helpful for you in this and future assessment tasks. Make sure that you can clearly distinguish the difference between an essay (page 28 of the document) and a report (page 36). Remember this current assessment task is an ESSAY not a REPORT. The critical thinking...
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...Lauren Klubertanz Lauren’s English 101 Portfolio ENG101 15 July 2016 Table of Contents Cover Letter p. 3-4 Self- Assessment Essay p. 5-10 College Learning Essay p. 11-17 Analyzing Arguments Essay p. 18-23 Cover Letter This midterm portfolio shows how I have progressed has a college reader and writer. Before this class I had trouble even understanding how to write a thesis and now I think I can definitely write a college level thesis. I have progressed to know how to incorporate my evidence into my concise and focused thesis statement. For example in the self assessment essay my thesis was, “Due to transferring to many schools over my first two years of college, I feel like I have had the opportunity to build up many habits of mind from Framework for Success in Post-Secondary Writing, especially in flexibility, openness and persistence but still can develop in metacognition and creativity in order to become a more successful college writer.” This showed that I could adapt a thesis to the assignment and it was focused and used my sources. At this point in the semester, a strength I have is the ability to connect source evidence with my thesis. I am able to develop my focused thesis around source-based evidence. For example in the college learning essay I was able to use my interview with my friend who was an elementary teacher to help develop my thesis about how teaching has changed due...
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...INTI International College Subang ECO406/ECO405: Issues in the Global Economy Coursework – Group Presentation (40%) Aug 2012 Topics for Group Presentation 1. Technology in the Age of Globalization Select a developing country of your choice and explore the contributions of technological developments to the process of globalisation. 2. Bretton Woods Institutions and Global Governance Evaluate the role of the World Bank and the IMF as the best institutions to govern the global economy. 3. Global Industrial Trade Discuss the constraints that developing countries face in participating in global industrial trade. How would this influence the economic development of these countries? 4. Global Trade in Agriculture Assess the effects of agriculture trade liberalisation on a developing country of your choice. 5. Global Trade in Services Examine the major changes that have taken place in the global trade in services and assess the opportunities these changes may offer for developing economies. 6. Financial Globalisation Discuss the impact of globalisation on the domestic financial sector in a developing country of your choice. 7. Financial Instability Study the financial crisis of 2008 in the United States. Describe how the crisis manifested itself and discuss its causes. 8. Poverty and Inequality in the Age of Globalisation Discuss how the global recession will affect the Millennium Development Goal of poverty levels. ...
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...works from the point of view of the reader; however, it is important to know that we can also apply his reasonings from the perspective of the writer. As a writer, it is useful to understand the rhetorical situation you’re writing for. A great example is the in-class lecture on January 17 (Polk). We were assigned a task in which we had to write a persuasive letter to many different people and watch as the same material for the letter changed in regard to who we were writing it for. This is important for writers because it helps them shape their writings into a more appropriate piece of work. A well-known businessman wouldn’t want to write an email to a boss in the same matter as he would if it were to a close friend. Likewise, a boss...
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...* ------------------------------------------------- Course Information: Course Description: Exposition and argument, emphasizing critical thinking in response to electronic and print texts. Focus on exploring, developing, and communicating ideas in a voice appropriate to the audience. Students strengthen skills through pre-writing, drafting, revising, and editing. In-class and out-of-class essays required. Prerequisite: A grade of "C" or better in ENGL 098 taken at 5 credits or recommending score on the writing skills placement test for ENGL 101. | Credits: 5Item #: 2806Class Hours/Locations: 9:00-9:50JSH 248 | ------------------------------------------------- Instructor Information: 0 1 Instructor: Sharla Yates, MA in Writing 2 Office Hours: by appointment only 3 Phone: 503-750-9552 (Last Resort) | 4 E-mail address: syates@clark.edu (Best) 5 Mailstop: FHL 222 6 Office Location: FHL 112 | * ------------------------------------------------- Text & Materials Needed: Required Text: * Hacker, Diana, Ed. Rules for Writers. Boston: Bedford, 2008. * Everything’s an Argument 5th edition. Boston: Bedford 2010. Required Supplies/Materials: You will need daily access to a computer and a printer, both must function properly. You will need access to the Internet. You will receive all assignments, announcements, grades, additional reading materials, videos, handouts and due dates on...
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...Page 1 of 8 How to Structure & Organize Your Paper Organizing Your Thoughts Making sense out of your observations about a text is a difficult task. Even once you've figured out what it is that you want to say, you are left with the problem of how to say it. With which idea should you begin? Should you address the opinions of other thinkers? As to that stubborn contradiction you've uncovered in your own thinking: what do you do with that? Writing papers in college requires that you come up with sophisticated, complex, and even creative ways of structuring your ideas. Accordingly, there are no simple formulae that we can offer you that will work for every paper, every time. We can, however, give you some things to think about that will help you as you consider how to structure your paper. Let Your Thesis Direct You Begin by listening to your thesis. If it is well-written, it will tell you which way to go with your paper. Suppose, for example, that in responding to Richard Pipes' book, The Russian Revolution, you have written a thesis that says: The purpose of the Russian Revolution was not only to revise Russia's class system, but to create a new world, and within that world, a new kind of human being. This thesis provides the writer (and the reader) with several clues about how best to structure the paper. First, the thesis promises the reader that it will argue that the Russian Revolution was not simply a matter of class. The paper will therefore begin by saying that...
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...The Writing Center Book Reviews Like 17 people like this. What this handout is about This handout will help you write a book review, a report or essay that offers a critical perspective on a text. It offers a process and suggests some strategies for writing book reviews. What is a review? A review is a critical evaluation of a text, event, object, or phenomenon. Reviews can consider books, articles, entire genres or fields of literature, architecture, art, fashion, restaurants, policies, exhibitions, performances, and many other forms. This handout will focus on book reviews. Above all, a review makes an argument. The most important element of a review is that it is a commentary, not merely a summary. It allows you to enter into dialogue and discussion with the work’s creator and with other audiences. You can offer agreement or disagreement and identify where you find the work exemplary or deficient in its knowledge, judgments, or organization. You should clearly state your opinion of the work in question, and that statement will probably resemble other types of academic writing, with a thesis statement, supporting body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Typically, reviews are brief. In newspapers and academic journals, they rarely exceed 1000 words, although you may encounter lengthier assignments and extended commentaries. In either case, reviews need to be succinct. While they vary in tone, subject, and style, they share some common features: First...
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