Exercise 2 of 2 of HW3:
In this exercise, you will apply what you’ve learned to your own capstone.
Be sure you have carefully read pp. 68-77 of the reading (see syllabus).
First, choose an article or other source from your literature review search on your topic that you think is flawed or inadequate in some way (for example, new evidence contradicts it or new thinking has eclipsed it).
Second, construct a claim regarding what you see as the flawed/inadequate aspect of the article; this claim should explain how and why. Moreover, this claim should be readily supported with textual evidence in the form of a direct quotation or quotations.
Third, write your claim / evidence / warrant paragraph(s).
This passage can easily become part of your final capstone. But it is essential this excerpt make clear how what you argue differs from what others have already argued on the topic–which is the very topic of pp. 68-77 of the reading (and the reason for requirement #10 below)
Some requirements (note in particular the sections in red below):
1) Your claim should clearly explain how and why you believe your opinion makes sense; that is, it shouldn’t simply make an observation. Instead, it should provide an explanation. In the example from earlier in this HW, the orange text is the explanation (but note it also contains no evidence; save your evidence for the next part of the para):
Forensic analysis suggests that Queenie’s claims are lies because the death scene shows so little evidence of the disturbances and chaos that one would expect as a consequence of a man accidentally falling down the stairs.
2) When including textual evidence in support of your claim, be sure to integrate your quotations according to method 3 or 4 from HW 3.
3) Be sure to reduce your direct quotations to ten or fewer words. (-5% if you do not)
4) Punctuate your quotations properly (-5% if you do not)
5) Follow whatever citation method is appropriate for your discipline. (-5% if you do not)
6) Do not begin or end your direct quotation with an ellipsis (-2% if you do not)
7) Be sure to pay attention to authorial voice in whatever sources you rely upon; author x may summarize author y in order to disagree with author y. That summary, accordingly, would not be the expression of author x‘s argument or opinion. See pp. 68-71 of the reading if this concept is not clear to you.
8) Be sure your warrant explains how and why your evidence supports your claim. (-20 % if it does not)
9) Put a (CL) before your claim, an (EV) before your evidence, and an (WA) before your warrant. (-5% if you do not)
10) Be sure your excerpt employs one of the “templates” provided by the reading in pp. 71-75. Underline the sentence in your excerpt wherein you have employed your chosen template. (-5% if you do not underline; -10% if you do not employ a template)
11) Take a screenshot of the entire page(s) from the source(s) you are using as evidence (see here for how to screenshot) and then insert this/these image(s) in the file that you submit to me. Again, I want only a SINGLE file. So, copy your screenshots and drop them into the file you upload to Bb. DO NOT SUBMIT TWO FILES. (-20% if you do not include screenshots)
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