Process 3
Argument Paper
Working with sources:
Let instructor know your topic via email as soon as
you have it for help on how to
collect and evaluate
your source materials. Topics vary widely in the types of
sources tha are
available to support your thesis statement. And remember that
you need articles
representing all sides, as well as from the position that you
have taken.
Levels of sources: ideally, your sources
should be those most appropriate to
your topic.
If your topic is
about the rating of a sports figure, you should not worry too
much about getting
theoretical articles from scholarly journals. But consider
this: even such a topic
as the rating of Mickey Mantle versus Babe Ruth as
historic baseball
players may be found in journals that take a theoretical
look at culture.
If your topic is on levels of fishing and their effects on marine
life in coastal waters
off Alaska, you should include newpapers reports and
that level, as well as
professional journals on the subject.
Why? Because such
issues are part of a democratic society and we should
all be in on such
decisions-making. Critique how well you think the popular
journals prepare the public to
make such decisions.
PRACTICE:
DO GD5: Download and do this exercise by
placing the program into a directory
on on your PC-type
computer (Not Mac). Click on icon and program will run.
This program allows you
to evaluate various types of sources.
Download GD5 by clicking here.