Week 4
Remember to:
Ask Yourself:
- Accurately, fairly, and clearly explain the author’s main point
- Provide context (to help a reader understand the source)
- Explain the author’s reasoning or evidence (to help a reader understand the main claims)
- Avoid editorializing, or inserting your own opinion
Get in Groups of 3
- Why is this a useful, credible, and reliable source for your project?
- What does it help you to do and understand?
- What about the context is important to consider when evaluating the source?
What's Next?
Do:
Don't
Write down 5 Stakeholders
Are they active or silent stakeholders?
How can you tell?
What is their stance on the issue?
Project 3
Objective
- Bring your textbook to class Friday
- February 20- Draft of Annotated Bib
- Argue about who is/is not correct
- Argue about where you agree/disagree
- Write less than 1500 words
- Include less than 10 sources
- Explore why each stakeholder acts/reacts to the issue
- Provide a rich discussion of the context and history of the problem or issue
- Identify at least five relevant stakeholders
- Apply stasis theory to the debate surrounding the issue
- Introduce stasis theory and the concept of stakeholders
- Begin to brainstorm arguments about issues and potential stakeholders to research
- Must include four sources related to ONE stakeholder for your project.
- Provide-the works cited or reference entry for the source
- Provide- a 1-paragraph summary of that source
- Provide- a paragraph that evaluates the source and explains its usefulness for your project
- Include one primary source (arguing from the stakeholder’s perspective)
- least one source that analyzes their perspective
Brainstorm
Stakeholders
Now, who are potential stakeholders interested in your issue?
Project 4
1.Must represent full complexity of the issue
2.Must look for active, as well as silent stakeholders (at least four must be active)
Identify:
- Who the stakeholder is
- The stakeholder’s relationship to the issue
- What the stakeholder is arguing
- Values that connect to their position (i.e. stasis theory)
In a scholarly essay:
- Introduce the background of an issue and your awareness of the rhetorical situation
- Demonstrate the importance of the issue
- Analyze at least FIVE relevant stakeholders (individuals/groups invested in the issue)
- Use stasis theory to understand the arguments about your issue in the public sphere