Step 4: Complete the assignment
Read all the materials, and then answer the following questions:
1. What is the question you are answering?
2. Summarize the issue and the background in your own words in a paragraph or two.
3. Discuss the “case for” in your own words in at least a paragraph. (Notice, this is not the argument summary at the top of the article. This question is based on the full “case for” discussion later in the article.)
4. Explain the evidence or arguments in the “case for” you think were most convincing and why.
5. Discuss the “case against” in at least a paragraph (again, don’t just focus on the summary of arguments at the top of the article).
6. Briefly explain the evidence or arguments in the “case against” you think were most convincing and why.
7. What is your opinion on the topic? Explain why you hold this opinion, identifying the evidence on which you have based it in a paragraph.
8. Primary sources: Choose three of the primary sources to analyze. Explain what each is how each one impacts your thoughts about the topic. You can list them and explain each.
9. Choose one of the Discussion Questions at the end of the article to answer in a paragraph or two. Don’t address a question that you have already discussed in the analysis.