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OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS ESSAY PREPARATION Please note the
following due dates: ·
Rough Draft Posted to Writing Group—no later than midnight Tuesday,
November 20. ·
Responses to Writing Group’s rough drafts—no later than midnight
Saturday, November 24. ·
Final Copy due at the beginning of class, Tuesday, November 27
(our end-of-the-quarter meeting). 6 Please print out the
following steps for easy reference and check them off as you complete
them. To be successful, it is CRITICAL
that you complete all steps IN ORDER and complete each step fully before
continuing on to the next. ____1. Go to the S.C.C. Library Home page. ____2. Click on ____3. If you are off-campus, enter your Student I.D. number in the box
where it asks for your library card number.
Click Continue. ____4. Scan the many topics in both columns. ____5. Pick several of topics of interest, click on them, and explore
each of them a bit. ____6. For each topic you explore, see if you can find two opposing
essays. For example,
under Alcoholism you will find one
essay entitled Alcoholism Is a Disease
and one essay entitled Alcoholism Is
not a Disease. Under Environmentalism you will find an
essay entitled The Environmental
Movement is Effective and another entitled The Environmental Movement is Harmful. Under Nuclear Weapons you will find an
essay entitled The United States Should Not Eliminate Its
Nuclear Arsenal and
another entitled The United States
Should Eliminate Its Nuclear Arsenal. Under Narcotics
Legalization you will find an essay entitled Drugs Should Be Legalized and another entitled Drug Should Not Be Legalized. You get the idea. You get the idea. ____7. Select one of the topics you explored and read both opposing
essays. ____8. Keep this topic and these essays in mind for our next essay. ____9. Finally, please read Chapter 10--Argumentation, pp. 277-289 (273-285) in our text Steps to Writing Well and the student essay “Students, Take
Note!” On pp. 293-295 (289-291). Please take me to the rest of
this final essay assignment |
