Arguments Analysis: Children are Almost Immune to Corona Virus

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Chandler Fall 2020 ENG 112-001 Arguments in Public Discourse Paper 3-4 pages double-spaced DUE Sunday, November 15, 2020 before 11:59PM 15% of total course grade Guiding Questions : What can be learned from analyzing another’s argument for rhetorically effective uses of rhetorical devices? What makes the use of a rhetorical device within one’s argument effective or ineffective? How do you evaluate the merit and reliability of information found in public discourse? Prompt : You will write a rhetorical analysis over an article which makes an argument on the topic of “misinformation” or “fake news” (or something closely related). You will locate the news article on your own.  Your analysis will cover the effective and/or ineffective use (or lack) of rhetorical devices/elements such as: o factual and/or inferential evidence, o inferential relationship(s), o inductive and/or deductive reasoning, o fallacies, o argumentative structure, o rhetorical language, o and/or other rhetorical elements in your chosen news article.  You will critique and evaluate your chosen article’s argumentative strategies (or lack thereof).  I highly recommend using the library’s database for newspapers to locate your article for this paper since some newspapers ask for subscriptions or money to access their articles, but the library has them accessible here for students for free (actually, paid for by your tuition fees); your article should be a newspaper article from a credible news source: https://libguides.nvcc.edu/newspapers Objectives : Upon completion of this assignment, the student will be able to…  Develop their college writing through critical essay-writing and research  Experience and analyze a range of texts about the human experience  Locate, evaluate, integrate, and document sources effectively  Edit their writing for style and grammar/mechanics appropriate to the rhetorical situation  Develop their strategies for critical thinking, reading, and writing  Competently read, summarize, analyze, evaluate, and write about college-level texts  Examine subjects from multiple perspectives  Formulate and support their own perspective  Evaluate information from sources  Recognize factual and inferential evidence  Recognize and evaluate inductive and deductive reasoning  Recognize and evaluate fallacies  Recognize different parts of an argument including concession, refutation, and confirmation Chandler Fall 2020 ENG 112-001  Apply methods of research, using primary and secondary sources in electronic formats  Identify and evaluate the merit and reliability of sources  Employ the mechanics of introducing, integrating, and documenting source material Format : You will format your paper using MLA8 formatting style; the guidelines for which can be found here- https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/ml a_general_format.html  Use ONLY Times New Roman font that is size 12 point  Do not add bold type or underline type to any text (use italics for names of large texts such as novels, films, titles of TV series, newspapers, journals, and magazines)  Use double-spacing in your paper  Compose a heading in the top left corner beginning with your full name, then Professor Chandler on the next line, ENG 112-001 on the next line, and the date formatted as 15 November 2020 on the final line  Insert a page header in the top right corner at a ½ inch margin with only your last name and the page number (be sure your page numbers progress with each page you write, and this should also be in Times New Roman size 12 font)  Center the UNIQUE title of your paper after your heading and before the first sentence of your introduction (do not add extra spaces/spacing between these sections)  Do not add extra spacing/spaces between your paragraphs in your paper  Your Works Cited page should be on a separate page from the end of your conclusion o Your Works Cited page does NOT count towards the minimum page count o All citations should be complete and accurate o Citations should be in alphabetical order from A-Z o The title of your Works Cited page is “Works Cited” and centered at the top (of course, without the quotation marks)  Use MLA8 formatting style for your paper which includes parenthetical citations that include the author’s last name and the associated page number after any quotes, paraphrases, or summations within the text  You will use academic language throughout your paper which is appropriate for this assignment’s rhetorical situation Writing Process : Students are encouraged to use the following writing process to help guide them through the prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and reflecting stages: 1. Locate an article from the public discourse (accessible by most anyone on the internet for free) a. The article MUST address the topics of either fake news, misinformation, disinformation, or something similar. 2. Read your article, then read it again, all while actively taking notes a. Pay attention to rhetorical strategies and devices that you recognize within the article’s argument b. Write down your first impressions of the article’s argument and strategies/devices 3. If there are portions of the article’s argument that you think are missing information, conduct more research to locate texts that include the information that you think is missing from your article’s argument Chandler Fall 2020 ENG 112-001 a. This will provide textual evidence which you will need if you plan on arguing that your article’s argument is missing information or other perspectives 4. Compile and synthesize your notes from lectures and any notes you took while reading the article 5. Develop a timeline for when you wish to have certain portions of the paper completed by so that you do not procrastinate 6. Reread portions of the article that you plan on analyzing and evaluating for your paper 7. Begin outlining your paper a. There is an outline for the APD Paper in SRQ4 that all students will use… 8. Write a rough draft 9. Take a day away from your draft and have someone else read it to give you feedback (this can be anyone you trust, not just me—in fact, I encourage you to utilize Tutor.com or the ASC tutor center at this stage) 10. Revise your draft based on feedback and your own evaluation of your paper thus far 11. Edit your draft for grammatical and mechanical errors (there is a useful website called Grammarly which many students use for help) 12. Submit the final version of your APD Paper into Canvas, yay! 13. Upon receiving your grade, reflect on your writing process and the assignment itself so you may improve upon your writing moving forward for the next major paper. Structure : I would like students to structure their paper off of the organizational patterns I outlined in the Outline for APD Paper document in Canvas and as I describe below:  In your introduction, you will introduce and summarize your chosen article’s argument. Then transition into your thesis statement which will indicate what rhetorical devices you will be analyzing and whether you determine the article’s argument to be effective or ineffective (it can be both). Your thesis will be your own argument that you are making about your article’s argument, its use of rhetorical strategies, and its effectiveness/ineffectiveness.  Each body paragraph will cover one rhetorical device/element from your article. Each body paragraph will begin with a topic sentence which is created directly from your thesis statement. Then you will go on to explain and support your assessment of your article’s argumentative strategies using textual evidence, your own analyses and evaluations, and any necessary secondary resources. End each body paragraph with a “mini-conclusion” which reiterates the purpose of that paragraph and connects it back to your thesis statement. Additionally, be sure each paragraph transitions well into each other by using transition words or phrases at the beginning and end of your paragraphs.  Your paper will end with a conclusion within which you restate the main argument of your paper (restate your thesis with fresh, new words) and a reiteration of why you think your article’s argument was effective or ineffective (or both, at times)