Week 3/4 Prompt: Tell Us About Your Topic
We starting discussing paper topics at the end of last week's meeting. Now that you have had a week to think about what you might want to write, tell us a bit more about it. Specifically, tell us:
- What do you intend to argue? Be very specific.
- What is some preliminary evidence? How are you going to back up your claims?
- Where are going to find your evidence? How do you know you can trust the sources?\
My argument is going to be how addiction is a disease . Why and how plus the sings of addiction is what I will be proving . I work around and sometimes with people with addiction everyday. Addiction is stated to be a mental and emotional dependency. There are a lot of types of addiction but they all revolve around the same actions . I am going to prove my claims threw research , statistics and surveys . I am going to find a lot of evidence at my jobs such as doctors , books and therapists . There is also government sites with a lot of usueful information that can be trusted . The information from my job can be trusted because they Pratice what they preach . Doctors therapists nurses and so on are licensed to deal with people that have addiction.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a very interesting topic. We will want to talk about how you know information can be "trusted"...we will talk about that tonight. Why does the designation of addiction as a disease matter? I have a hunch that it matters quite a bit for a lot of reasons.
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DeleteMy argument is about immigration reform. Specifically, why the "Dreamers" should get permanent resident statuses here in the US. Some of these kids come in to the US at a really young age. They do not know what is going on at the time. Some of the Dreamers didn't even know they were illegal until they applied for college or tried to get married and other things. They have never been to their country and some do not know the language. Many of them have become very successful here and are leaders in their communities. I intend on researching immigration laws from our past and try to connect them with our present laws. I will also gather information on specific Dreamers and their positive contributions to society. I will make sure I check on their credentials to make sure they are a trusted source. When looking up the laws, I will make sure to go to the library and use reliable books and not rely solely on the internet. I still have much things to think about on this matter and will most likely change some things along the way.
ReplyDeleteThis is an excellent topic. Let's working on fine tuning exactly what you plan to write. This will help streamline the research a bit. If you argument is that Dreamers should immediately get PR status- that will lead you down an entirely different path than a critique of immigration law. This is an important topic- excellent choice.
DeleteI plan on writing my paper on sexual education reform in schools. In recent times it is coming to light an unfortunately astounding amount of men and women have been sexually assaulted. A prime public example is the case of Aziz Ainsari, amongst many others. My paper will focus that schools should not only be more in depth on the topics they cover, but they should focus largely on consent and what constitutes rape and sexual assault. A Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll reports almost half of college students do not know the definition of consent and the consequences of not acquiring consent. Some of my sources include Planned Parenthood and RAINN (The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network).
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ReplyDeleteI chose this source because cell phones cell phones are a part of life and we depend on them all the time.
who wrote it? S.John Obringer and Kent Coffey
when was it Published ? 2005
what is article trying to say? the expansion of cell phones during the past decade has made it commonplace students and teaching to have cell phones in the school setting.
article#2
Elizabeth Hartnell & Nadja Heym
march 2008
why I chose this source? I think that phones should be allowed for learning , like note taking.
students 7-11 years old we do not allow mobile phones in school.
kids playing music on their cell phones , making phone calls and sending texts as well , they do a lot of texting.
article #3
George Engel and Tim Green
February 6th 2011
the goal of the article is to describe a case where cell phones are being used successfully as 21st century Learning tools in a high school math classroom.
cell phones should only be Visible when needed to complete classroom Activities.
article #4
no name for article
2007
at least one issue parents and children are on the same wave length. both think banning cell phones in the classroom is an extreme measure. still Parents aren't blind to the Distracations cell phones can Create in the classroom.
phones must be turned off during school hours or set to voicemail ONLY.
Article #5
M. BETH humble - THADEN
SPRING 2011
HIGH School students are Prohibited from using cell phones during the school day
before a school system adopts cell phones as Learning tools, student Percepations should be Investigated.
The purpose of this study was to investigate college freshman"s Reflection of high school usage polices. cell phones are NOT GOING AWAY.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The topic that I am choosing is how a slot machine and a cell phone are so similar, basically talking about how/why most people are really into their phones and how it causes them to be distracted and not be able to see whats in front of them.
ReplyDeletefor my paper i plan to write about bullying and the long-term effects of it. i plan to argue that this is a big issue in schools and their needs to be more information given to kids about it. to back up my idea i'm going to use a number of articals and some studies that had been done.
ReplyDeletemy topic is on whether college athletes should get paid or not, this topic is a very controversial. In my paper I will discuss why student athletes should get paid and give information on the stress they are under and why they should be considered more than just student athletes.
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