50 points. Due June 4. NO late submission.
Type your answers to the questions below in a Word document named Final. Format the document neatly and number your responses so I can tell which question you are answering. The answers should be in complete sentences. Use the Spelling and Grammar tools to correct your document. Submit to Etudes Assignments.
Click the link to open an editorial "Climate Change is the True Crisis." If you have trouble with the link, click to open a PDF file containing the article.
Read it carefully and answer the following questions:
1. The author paraphrases a quote from Oscar Wilde. Do an Internet search to find the original quote. What was Oscar Wilde's original quote?
2. What is the issue? The issue is a question that the
conclusion answers.
3. What is the author's conclusion (in one sentence)?
4. (4 points) What are the reasons the author gives to
support the conclusion?
5. (2 points) The author uses several analogies.
Describe one of them.
Click the link to open an editorial "Was the BP Oil Platform Explosion an Accident or ...?" If you have trouble with the link, click to open a PDF file containing the article.
Read it carefully and answer the following questions.
6. What is Mr. Dieckman's conclusion?
7. (6 points) Locate 3 different types of fallacies in the article. For each, give the text from
the article and the name of the fallacy (Use the fallacies in the textbook and
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/index.html#index )
8. (2 points) Identify an ambiguity in this article. Give the ambiguous
text and a short description of why you think it is ambiguous.
9. (2 points) What is Mr. Dieckman's background?
Click the link to open an editorial "The green case for offshore drilling." If you have trouble with the link, click to open a PDF file containing the article.
Read it carefully and answer the following questions.
10. What is Mr. Smith's conclusion?
11. (4 points) What are the reasons he gives to support the conclusion?
12. (6 points) What are the author's values? Describe three. Give the values and the text from the article that shows the author holds that value. Use values from valueslist.htm to answer.
13. (2 points) What is Mr. Smith's background?
14. (6 points - Rival Causes) The three articles present different ideas about the way offshore drilling affects the environment. Describe three of these. Give the text of the article and say if the author thinks it hurts the environment or is beneficial.
15. (10 points) Compare the three articles using the techniques for evaluating arguments that you have learned in this class. Which one presents the strongest argument? A good argument provides reasons that directly support the conclusion, is not ambiguous, does not include fallacies, and provides solid evidence and statistics. Write a few paragraphs.
Clearly identify which article you chose and why.
Consider the background of the authors and the sites the articles were published on.
Give examples of different types of evidence presented in the articles. Which is the strongest evidence?