You are going to pretend that you have to write a 10 page research paper for an upper-level course in your major or in an area of interest.
Think of a topic in which you feel strongly.
Find 1 article through our library- Galileo or Google scholar
The articles must be at least 3 pages or more
Read the articles and annotate (see below for what you will be identifying). You will be turning these in. You will be using a key and different colors to highlight these.
Find and Identify within the article the conclusion (the controversy being argued) and if it is descriptive or prescriptive and reasons that support the conclusion
Then you are to find any ambiguity and assumptions.
Next, look for fallacies and be able to identify them.
Finally, look at the evidence. What type of evidence is being used? Is it valid? Is it survey data or interview data?
Are there rival causes?
What information is omitted?
When done with the above steps, you are to write an evaluation paper for your article, deciding whether or not you will use this article for your research. You are to evaluate all of the above in your essay. The essays are on average a typed page to two pages. Start with your reasoning why or why not you would use this in your research paper. Then, you will support your reasoning from your critical reading and annotating. Are there too many fallacies? Weak reasoning? Too many ambiguous words? Maybe the article has sound reasoning and lacks tricks in reasoning. Show me. You may use APA or MLA to format the paper.
The attached handout says you will turn it in physically. Instead, upload it here!