Argument Abounds

Here are the questions to help you really examine the Sample Researched Position Paper:

RPP Analysis Worksheet 

You do NOT need to answer EVERY single question in minute detail, but DO consider each question as you are reading. Allow your analysis of this sample paper to serve as a guide for you as you outline your own paper.

I realize that you have already read this sample paper and have answered the sample questions found in the textbook (for Reading Log 10). These are new questions, and they do not have the same focus as those in the textbook; however, if you feel that some of them are redundant, then focus your written responses on other parts of the questions.

The primary goal of this activity is to help you envision an approach that might work for your own paper. Please approach it with this goal in mind.

To bring on Monday:

1. Your written response to these analysis questions (I will collect these).
2. Your working outline, which should include a general idea of which sources apply to which parts of your paper.
3. The quotes you have selected as possible choices to use from each source. You should have a good idea of how these quotes will fit into the outline of your paper (i.e. which points the quotes support or refute, etc).

Here is the PowerPoint we will use in class on Monday (let’s hope the computer works!):

using-quotations.ppt

 Have a safe holiday!