...Writing an Argument Crystal Hernandez MGT/521 May 21, 2012 Jennifer Mims Writing an Argument Learning Team C debated the credibility of an online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. There has been a debate in recent years about the credibility of the encyclopedia. This paper will research the four steps to fairly presenting an argument, and how there four steps relate to the Wikipedia debate. Present Both Sides of an Argument The first step to writing an argument is to present both sides of the argument. A one-sided presentation will make you appear to be either biased or sloppy in your research. If the sources are available and if their views are pertinent, they should be represented and, if you wish, refuted in your essay (Spatt, 2011). The base of Learning Team C’s argument on the credibility is how the information is added to the online encyclopedia. Wikipedia allows users of the website to add information to the topics covered on the website. Members of the team felt that is discredited information found on the website. Once the information is added to the website, Wikipedia has a panel of personnel that verifies all information added. Other members of the team felt that because this system is in place, it credits the information. Provide an Account of the Argument Wikipedia is a source of information that is not credible in the eyes of the University of Phoenix. Members of the team felt that this discredited the source of information. One interesting point was made...
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...Analysis of Argument Jeff Jacoby’s “Bring Back Flogging” Purpose, Method, and Persona • Purpose: – What is the author’s purpose? • His thesis: We should once again use flogging. – What is your purpose (for this exam)? • Dispute his argument – Jacoby’s argument is flawed. • Methods: – What are the author’s methods? • His arguments: examples, historical justifications, deductive reasoning, statistics, and so on. – What are your methods (for this exam)? • The weakness in his arguments: Find contradictions, inconsistencies, logical fallacies, false assumptions, and so on. – Statistics are misleading Purpose, Method, and Persona • Persona: – What is the author’s persona? • Is he comical, serious, academic, angry? – What is your persona (for this exam) • Formal and doubtful – Sarcasm – “Now, we offer a more enlightened, more humane way of disciplining wrongdoers: We should lock them up in cages” – is part of his persona here. Doubt the efficacy of this approach. He wants to make prisons sound less humane, but should humanity be a part of this argument? Has he left himself wide open for attack? Exam • You MUST bring a large blue book and a pen or pencil • You MAY bring – Your textbook – Your syllabus – An outline that doesn’t contain any complete sentences (except quoted material from the text) – A dictionary / thesaurus • You MAY NOT bring – A computer – A phone – A completed essay Sample Exam Question 1) Jeff Jacoby, an established...
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...begin to address this situation? (5 marks) Bob should begin to address the situation by using progressive discipline. The following steps will make Phil aware of what he is doing wrong, and give him the opportunity to resolve the issue. The steps for progressive discipline are; Step One: Management issues a verbal warning to the employee for their infraction. Bob should begin by addressing Peter with a verbal warning and outlining the fact that he needs to show up for work, and be on time. Bob should continue to state that if he is going to be absent he needs to advise his supervisor. He needs to make Peter aware that if he does not begin to follow these directions more serious action will be taken. Step Two: Management provides the employee with a written warning of the issue and outlines that they require a resolution. If Peter continues to show up late, Bob then needs to provide him with a written warning. This document should outline that Peter has been late, on more than one occasion, and that they had previously spoken about this issue before. The written warning should also outline that Peter needs to start showing up to work on time, or else further action will be taken. Step Three: If the issue has not been addressed to management satisfaction a suspension without pay (Min. 1 day, Max. 5 days) can be initiated. Next steps can be addressed if Peter still continues to show up late and...
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...TOPICS Choose one (1) of the follow two passages. These passages are also available as separate Word documents and PDFs posted to week 13A of the Moodle course site. PASSAGE 1 Downloading Movies from the Internet for Free is Wrong! Adapted from: “Downloading music from the internet” by Dr. Asher Meir from The Jewish Ethicist. http://www.besr.org/ethicist/downloadmusic.html It is wrong to download copyright protected movies from the Internet for free using peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing using systems like BitTorrent. Movies are similar to other public goods like bridges or roads. They cost a lot to create, but once they're around many people can enjoy them at low cost. Just as the government supports bridges by giving builders a concession to collect large tolls, even though your trip costs them a minimal amount, so it supports movie production by granting a copyright which enables the film maker and producer to collect from viewers. Downloading a copyright protected movie for free from the Internet is like making a detour around the toll booth. Even if you don't get a ticket, you've taken a free ride on someone else's investment. Our Sages viewed paying tolls as a prime example of the citizen's duty to obey the law, and emphasized the importance of avoiding even the appearance of evading this duty. And while it is true that if everybody downloads copyright protected movies for free from the internet, eventually the copyright may be impossible to defend...
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...CHAPTER 9 ON Writing about a case builds on the process of analyzing a case.The case situations described in previous chapters can be used to organize essays. An essay arguing a decision is organized in a different way from one offering a problem diagnosis.The structure of problem, decision, and evaluation essays is described in chapters 10 through 12, respectively. The chapters also include cases and sample essays about them. The essays are based on the writing of MBA students. To convince a reader that a conclusion about a case is valid, the writer must offer credible evidence linked directly to the conclusion. This fact helps explain the characteristics case-based essays have in common: 1. Answers two questions—What? Why?—and often a third—How? 2. Makes a position statement (What?) OT C CHAR ACTERISTICS OF A PERSUA SIVE C A SE ESSAY OP riting about a case is very different from talking about it.You collaborate with others in a discussion, bringing to bear everyone’s background and case preparation along with the instructor’s knowledge and facilitation skills. But you usually work on your own when writing about a case.You have to perform the entire analysis yourself as well as organize and express your thinking for a reader. However, the difference between talking and writing about a case runs deeper still.Audiences have much more exacting expectations of a text than they do of spoken comments. Logical gaps and the back-and-fill tolerable in a discussion are...
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...Potential Topics * Cars - a blessing or a curse? * Given the traffic congestion on our roads, should we be doing more to keep cars off the road, and if so, what? * Should wolves be re-introduced to certain parts of Scotland? * Should humans treat farm animals more humanely? * Is there any place for zoos in a civilised society? * What is the future for the British (Scottish) countryside - a recreational retreat or a living, working environment for the production of food? Discuss. * Are celebrities entitled to privacy? * Are child beauty pageants morally acceptable? * It has been said that the glory game of football has been turned into the money game. To what extent do you think this statement is true and how has the game been affected? * Did the Olympics actually inspire the British population or what it a black hole for all our cash? * The Ryder Cup is the perfect example of what a united Europe can achieve – is this the way forward? * Do the various ages of consent need to be reviewed for the young people in this country? * How old is “too old” for parenthood? * Have improvements in contraception brought about liberation or a passport to promiscuity? * Has genetic engineering gone too far? * Cloning - a tremendous medical advance or an ominous development? * Should animal organs be used for human transplantation? * Should doctors have the right to refuse expensive treatment to patients who will not change their habits (eg...
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...Assignment 1 Step 1: Understanding Context: What background information do you need to know in order to read this image intelligibly? There is no back ground information need to add to the image .When I was able to look at the image I it lets me know this book or novel is about love. Step 2: What Do You See? What I was able to see that this book or novel is about love. What are the key details or features here that stand out? The key details in this image that stands out is the heart is made out of pages with a light in the core of the page. What images? The image I was able What text? What supporting details? Step 3: Identifying the Issue(s): Based on the picture it presents, what issue does this visual seem to be referencing? Based on the picture this its saying this book or novel is about love or showing someone it is about love. What debate is it part of? The part to debate is this novel or book. Is this book telling you facts on how to love or is it telling you how to love and will it work. Step 4: Defining the Perspective: What side in this debate is this visual taking? Is the book really about love or is it a love novel. What perspective on this issue does this visual seem to take? It is making Step 5: Defining the Argument: How do we know what side of this debate the visual is taking? What specific claims about this issue does the visual seem to be making? That this book will make you feel happy about been in love Step 6: Thinking in Terms...
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...RECONSTRUCTING ARGUMENTS Deductive and Inductive Here we are to learn the techniques for PART I, Making a Critique- i.e., argument reconstruction, by doing the following “steps”: 1. Read the discourse; 2. Number and Bracket arguments; 3. Write an Index of Claims; and 4. Tree-Diagram the arguments. What is critiquing? Benjamin Samuel Bloom (1913 – 1999) - the creator of Bloom’s Taxonomy (1956) following a framework for categorizing educational goals: Taxonomy of Educational Objectives; revised in 2001 by Anderson & Ktrathwohl) with collaborators Max Englehart, Edward Furst, Walter Hill, and David Krathwohl as A Taxonomy for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment. This taxonomy consists of six major categories: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation. The categories after knowledge (containing subcategories) were presented as "skills and abilities," (manifested by a person’s intellectual abilities as well) with the understanding that knowledge was the necessary precondition for putting these skills and abilities into practice. As revised in 2001, these cognitive skills were rather treated more dynamically by using verbs and gerunds to label their categories and subcategories (rather than the nouns of the original taxonomy as knowledge objectives). These "action words" describe the cognitive processes by which thinkers encounter and work with knowledge. They are (from the lowest thinking skill): Categories &...
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...Pillow Method Paper The pillow method is a five-step process used to resolve a disagreement or enable two people to gain understanding from a disagreement. The process involves each individual to look at the problem through five different perspectives. These steps or perspectives include: “I’m right you’re wrong”, “You’re right I’m wrong”, “both right both wrong”, “this issue isn’t important”, and “the truth is in all perspectives” (Alder & Proctor, p. 104). The purpose of the pillow method is for each person to gain insight from each step in the process. By looking at the problem from multiple perspectives each person gets the chance to enhance their cognitive complexity (Alder & Proctor, p. 104). In this paper I will apply the pillow method to a disagreement a coworker and I had over the new gun control laws that are being proposed by our government. While my co-worker believes that the government is trying to take away our rights by proposing new gun laws, I however believe that there should be changes made to the current laws put in place. I believe applying the pillow method to any argument will result in either a resolution or a better understanding between the two parties involved. “I’m right you’re wrong”: This step involves me stating the reasons why I believe that I am right and explaining my point of view on the subject (Alder & Proctor, p. 104). There are several reasons that I believe that there should be new gun...
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... Prof. Davenport 11/26/2011 “Should high school graduates receive free education for mandatory military service?” My topic is should high school graduates received free education based on two or four of military service? Some people believe all high school graduates should be required to serve a minimum of two years in any branch of the military. All veterans should receive some sort of educational assistance. Their educational benefits should be based on years of service, job duties and if they were in a combat zone or participated in an area were combat was imminent but war wasn’t declared. Some people believe in freedom of choice and individuals shouldn’t be forced to join the armed services if they don’t wish to. Some veterans don’t feel free education shouldn’t be contingent on mandatory service; others see no problem with it especially in today current climate. I believe all high school graduates should serve between two to four years in the military either before or after college. Their educational benefits whether it is paid for 100% or a percentage of it covered, all veterans should receive some type of assistance. I stated that today’s young people aren’t very responsible and don’t have a strong work ethic. Their value system is based on “what have you done for me lately”...
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...paper will discuss identify the ways that arguments or a presentation of the arguments would need to be changed as the result of cultural differences in Japan. Cultural Evaluation Paper Having a good understanding of a particular culture before beginning an argument or a presentation is crucial. One should take the time to learn about the audience’s culture as well as the way that certain things, such as humor, can be perceived as offensive. Failing to do these simple tasks can result in a failed argument or presentation. In the case of the Japanese, it is important to understand and educate oneself in their strict customs. The better prepared one is the more likely their message will be received as intended. One of the most important things to know prior to meeting with someone from Japan is their traditional greeting technique. It is customary in Japan for someone who is of lower seniority to bow to their superior first. This is considered much more important than a handshake and is a sign of respect. Similarly, when gathering for a casual meeting, one should never introduce themselves. It is customary in Japan for the host to introduce their guests. In order to ensure that a good first impression is made, it is critical that one remember these points. According to the cultural training firm Roland & Associates, there are four key steps to ensuring that your presentation is received well by a Japanese audience. These steps are: 1. Slick presentations designed...
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...performed a step in the speech, show me how you prepared for it. On the other hand, if you did not successfully perform a step in the speech, show me how you would correct the problem I noted on your evaluation form. Your Name: Section # Persuasive Speech Questions 20 pts. *1. Write the outline for the introduction of your speech. Provide a complete specific purpose and overview of main points. Also present a complete bibliography of the sources you used. Provide brief summaries of the other two steps. Outline for Introduction Step 1- Step 2- Step 3- Step 4- Step 5- 20 pts. *2. Write the outline for the body of your speech. Provide complete transitions in between each main point. Provide paragraph summaries for each main point. Outline for Body Main Point #1 Main Point #2 Main Point #3 Main Point #4 10 pts. *3. Write the outline for the conclusion of your speech. Provide a complete restatement of main points and specific purpose. Provide brief summaries of the other two steps. Outline for Conclusion Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 *Do not write out the entire speech. The only steps in the three (3) parts of the speech that I want written out completely are noted in the question (e.g. transitions in the body.) As noted, only summaries of all other steps should be provided. *Answers to questions 1, 2 and 3 must be in outline form or you will receive 0 points for your answer. 25 pts. 4. Provide four examples of...
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...change for them to survive.” Discuss critically Length 500-700 words The objective of this assessment This assessment requires you to write an essay on Australian political parties based primarily on Willmot and Dowse’s chapter on pages 181 to 206 of the Course Reader. You can also read Dean Jaensch’s chapter (attached) and other sources, such as those referred to in lectures. You may wish to find books in the Reid Library (3rd floor) on your question. See me by October 24 to discuss how your research and writing is progressing. With this essay you should write critically and analytically, rather than descriptively. If you are claiming, for example, that the Liberal party is a conservative party, you will need to support your argument with evidence and your points must be properly referenced. Your essay will need to have an introduction, a body and a conclusion. The grade you receive will depend on how much effort you have put into researching and writing your essay. Essays written the night before they are due usually look rushed and are riddled with clumsy sentences and factual errors. Essay markers can spot them straight away. Please ensure you give yourself enough time to work on the essay. If you require an extension of time, you need to apply for an extension and provide a good reason (such as a medical certificate)....
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...Introduction to Management Tutorial Work – Academic Year 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS Overview ................................................................................................................................................. 3 Assessment ............................................................................................................................................. 4 Tutorial Activities .................................................................................................................................... 6 Session 1 ................................................................................................................................................. 6 Session 2 ................................................................................................................................................. 7 Session 3 ................................................................................................................................................. 7 Session 4 ................................................................................................................................................. 8 Session 5 & 6 ........................................................................................................................................... 8 Session 8 ................................................................................................................................................. 9...
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...in their daily lives. The four different styles of critical thinking are creative, logical, scientific, and persuasive. The different styles of thinking are fit to the different issues and they require thought and analysis to find the best fit. The thinking styles each have a different effect on the issue, so one will need to think about this as another variable. People use the thinking styles to remember, and perceive information, and also solve problems. In this paper we will discuss the four types of Thinking and Decision making and give workplace examples for each. Scientific Thinking The style of scientific thinking has changed the world. In the field of medicine, scientists have been successful in finding cures for diseases, developing new drugs that can extend life, and treatments that can improve the quality of life have been invented through this important style of thinking. The four major steps in the scientific thinking process are observation, hypothesis formulation, experimentation, and verification (Kirby & Goodpaster, 2007). Scientific Thinking Decision Making Process Observation = Identify the problem Hypothesis formulation = Define criteria, goals, and objectives Experimentation = Make the decision Verification = Evaluating the decision The steps in scientific thinking process...
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