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Exercise 1

For this exercise you will turn a curious yet skeptical gaze onto Gerard Jone’s essay, “Violent Media Is Good for Kids.” First, even if you have reservations about the author’s ideas, you need to make sense of her/his argument by explaining it in your own words. What is the writer’s position? What are the essential claims here? What evidence does the author offer for these claims? Next, play devil’s advocate: which aspects of the essay sound wrong to you? Does the evidence persuade you? Which assumptions or conclusions strike you as problematic or unreasonable?

Manuscript Notes: Your response should be two to three double-spaced pages and calls for MLA documentation. Avoid large block quotations and use this exercise as an opportunity to refine your ability to weave together short quotations, paraphrases, and your own prose.

Instructions: Write a critical response to Gerard Jone’s essay using the following ideas as a guide. (Note: For a more in-depth example look again at the sample we discussed in class, which is posted on Moodle.)

Basic Moves for a critical response:

· Opening paragraph:

· Article’s source and author identified

· Summary of writer’s position

· Analysis of supporting evidence: (Note: This should be several paragraphs as there are several supporting points of evidence in the essay, so use this template to set up your paragraphs. Add transitions such as “Another important…” to connect your paragraphs together.)

· Presentation of supporting evidence that author uses in defense of the thesis. (This is usually several main ideas)

· For example: Jones believes that violent media is a positive influence on children because ________.

· Analysis of the supporting evidence.

· For example: Jones makes some good points _____. However, one problem with Jone’s ideas ________.

· Analysis of opposing argument:

· Presentation of opposing argument that Jone’s brings up.

· For example: Jone’s cites an opposing argument _____.

· Analysis of the opposing argument.

· For example: Jone’s refutes this argument by pointing out___.

· For example: Jone’s rebuttal does not offer convincing ____.

· Conclusion: Wrapping up the main ideas of the article and ending with your own judgment of the merit and validity of the argument.

· For example: “All in all ____” or “It may be true_____,

However, ______”