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Leslie D. Hannah Department of English University of Oklahoma
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Unit Three: The Negotiator Micro essay #1: Students are to find a court case, either from information supplied by the instructor or on their own, and analyze both arguments offered into testimony. Try to answer the questions posed in the course packet for this essay. Students are not to offer their solutions for the case, merely analyze the arguments being presented. Micro essay #2: The Instructor will read to the class a selected court case and the arguments offered by both sides. However, the outcome of the case shall not be revealed. Students are to analyze the arguments, weighing the ethos, logos, and pathos of each. Then students are to propose their own solution to the case. Operate as if you were the judge who had to decide this case, and give your "verdict" and reasoning. Unit 3 Macro Essay This macro essay shall be 1,00 to 1,250 words in length. Students are to choose one of the claims listed below and pursue that claim (pro or con), or create a claim of their own using the ones listed below as a model. Regardless of the type of claim advanced, the purpose is to propose a solution to an obvious problem. Students are to choose a method of evidence collection (interview, poll, testimony, facts represented by tables, graphs, or charts, etc.) and address their chosen claim. This macro requires a proper MLA Works Cited Page to document the chosen method of evidence gathering and presentation. There must be a minimum of four works cited, only two may be Internet sources. An example of this would be conducting an interview with a person pro-minded on the chosen topic and a person con-minded on the chosen topic. Value claim "The University of Oklahoma recently raised its entrance test scores. This is a good/bad idea." "A sound investment in today’s volatile market is _________________________." "The best (choose a product) on the market today is the __________________." Policy claim "The United States should/should not take a ‘get tough’ policy with the Chinese government." "The United States should/should not abolish capital punishment or the abortion law (Roe v. Wade)." "High school graduates should be required to work in the ‘real world’ for a minimum of one year before being allowed to enter college." Claim of fact or definition (Assuming he were still alive) "Jeffery Daumer is Not Guilty by reason of insanity." (Insanity has two distinctly different definitions: one legal and one medical.) "Dr. Jack Kevorkian is/is not a murder." (Keep in mind the physicians’ Hippocratic oath.) "Matthew Shepard (or James Byrd) is a hero, a martyr for tolerance." (Matthew Shepard is the young gay man severely beaten, tied to a fence in rural Wyoming, and left to die. James Byrd is the black man who was dragged to death in Texas.) Causal claim "Violent video games are the reason for the increase in violent behavior among children." "Alcohol is the leading cause of rape and sexual assault on college campuses." "The recent national championship of the OU football team cause the 47% increase in Freshmen enrollment here at the University." Simple categorical claim "Bill Clinton’s pardon of the fugitive Mark Rich was motivated by money." "Surfing the Internet is a new form of addiction." "The University of Oklahoma has a shortage of parking spaces." |