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GUIDANCE FOR WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1.1

Posted on: Monday, January 8, 2018 11:09:00 PM EST

TIPS AND GUIDANCE FOR THIS WEEK'S WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1

 

Well week 1 is over. I have already graded your posts to the week one discussion thread and most of you did pretty well. I am commenting on them in the next announcement. Most of you are involved in the webtext and have submitted you homework for week one which if submitted has been graded. Now in week 2 you have another discussion thread, and another chapter of the webtext with homework. BUT you also have your first written assignment. It is a short assignment, 200 to 400 words long. It asks you to analyze a hot button controversial issue such as should abortion be legalized. Or the extension of the program for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) the immigration policy that would allow some illegal immigrants who entered the country as minors receive renewable two years extension from deportation and be eligible for a work permit while they study. Should that program continue or be eliminated. Congress is now dealing with that controversy. There are many other controversies to choose from as the topic of your paper in the www.procon.org website.

This assignment known officially as Written Assignment 1.1 is worth 30 possible points is due at the end of this week (Week 2) on Sunday, January 14th, at midnight (I will accept submissions until Monday January 15th EST at 9AM). The assignment is a paper that is between 200 and 400 words long and it should include the following items:

1. A clear statement of your position on the controversy you selected for the writing assignment from the  www.procon.org  website. An example of such a controversy is the hot button issue of the legalization of Abortion I just mentioned. There are many more. 

2. An Identification of three reasons opposing your position to your position these reasons can also be found in the www.procon.org website. Or you use other reasons.

3. Ask and answer three believing questions found in Peter Elbow´s article The Believing game in section 2.6 of the chapter on Barriers in the webtext  http://www.procon.org/sourcefiles/believinggame.pdf . These questions are about the reasons opposing your position or view. Here are the questions: 

a) What is helpful or interesting about the view opposed to mine ?

b)  What would I notice if I believed that my opponents view is true ?

c) In what sense or under what conditions could my opponents view be true? 

The purpose of these questions is to place yourself in the shoes of your opponent, to see the controversy as she or he sees it and to notice how your awareness of why your opponent thinks as she or he does changes or does not change your view. 

So you are not asked to refute the views of your opponent; on the contrary you are being asked to analyze the issue from your opponents point of view. I make some comments on this in a video in the Instructor Insight Tab. Do not get drawn into the controversy to argue in favor of your view or position. You would be missing the point of the assignment. Instead analyze the controversy as a forensic scientist analyzes a dead body. As always if you have questions email or call 703 424 4576. Gook luck.