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Lesson 02.04 Supporting the Argument
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Your Assignment
For this assessment, you will use the
Supporting the Argument: Plan and Outline
Worksheet
to choose a topic, develop your position, perform research to gather
evidence, avoid logical fallacies, and strategically synthesize the evidence in an outline.
You will also demonstrate your ability to identify and correct logical fallacies in a quiz.
Supporting the Argument: Plan and Outline
Directions:
There are four parts to this assignment. Please read the instructions
carefully.
Part 1
: Choose a topic from the following list:
●
Social media:
Some people claim that frequent use of social media can have
negative effects on teenagers who may already exhibit addictive behaviors or
mental health disorders. Should social media use be restricted for all teens?
What about teenagers who show no signs of disorders?
●
Ethical labor:
The United States has been opening factories in underdeveloped
nations that offer dramatically low-paying jobs for extreme conditions and long
hours. What effect does it have on the American economy? Is it ethical for the
United States to continue this practice?
●
Video games:
Some say that the experience of controlling characters in violent
video games can have an impact on the players' ability to control their anger in
the real world. Do games’ interactive qualities make them potentially more
dangerous than films, books, or television? Should violent video games be
banned or censored?
●
Gender-specific toys:
Gender-specific toys have been a widely accepted norm.
What evidence is there to support or contradict the claim that boys and girls
naturally prefer different toys and colors? Is there a benefit to promoting these
differences? Should stores discontinue gender-based separations of toys on their
shelves?
●
Exam efficacy:
Most states and school districts use standardized exams to
determine a student’s level of expertise in a subject. Is there a better way to test
mastery in schools? Should exams be replaced with a different form of
assessment?
Part 2
: In a complete sentence, state your
position
on your chosen issue. This will be
your thesis.
-
Social media affects teenahers’ mental health and should be restricted for all
teens.
Part 3
: Perform research to gather evidence
to support your position
(thesis). You
need a total of six sources, along with quotes to support your claim, an explanation
showing how the quote/evidence supports your position, and the full Modern Language
Association (MLA) citation. Use the organizer below to organize your research.
SOURCE TITLE
and AUTHOR
Quotations from
the source to
support your
claim
How does this
source help you
connect your
claim (position) to
the data
(evidence)?
Explain how the
evidence
strengthens your
position.
Full MLA Citation
1.
Social Media
and Mental
Health,
By
Lawrence
Robinson
and Melinda
Smith, M.A.
“A study at the
University of
Pennsylvania found
that high usage of
Facebook,
Snapchat, and
Instagram
increases
rather decreases
feelings of
loneliness
.
Conversely, the
study found that
reducing social
media usage can
actually make you
feel
less
lonely and
isolated and improve
your overall
wellbeing.”
According to
“Social Media and
Mental Health,”
excessive use of
social media
platforms increases
the feeling of
loneliness.
Because teenagers
have an addictive
behavior to social
media, it can limit
social interaction
which leads to the
lonely feeling
implicated.
Robinson,
Lawrence. “Social
Media and Mental
Health.”
HelpGuide.Org
, 29
Mar. 2023,
www.helpguide.org/
articles/mental-heal
th/social-media-and
-mental-health.htm.
2.
Online
Social
Networking
and Mental
Health,
Igor
Pantic
, MD,
PhD
Recently, however,
some researchers
have associated
online social
networking with
several psychiatric
disorders, including
depressive
symptoms, anxiety,
and low
self-esteem.
Social Media is
strongly connected
to symptoms of
depression and
anxiety.
Pantic, Igor. “Online
Social Networking
and Mental Health.”
Cyberpsychology,
Behavior and
Social Networking
,
U.S. National
Library of Medicine,
Oct. 2014,
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.g
ov/pmc/articles/PM
C4183915/.
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3.
The Effects
of Social
Media on
Mental
Health,
Christine M.
Stabler, MD,
MBA
Having a whole
digital world at your
fingertips can put a
damper on getting
out and having real
social connections
and in-person
interactions.
With so much to do
on the internet, it
can become
addictive and
time-consuming,
decreasing time to
have real life
interactions, which
increases
loneliness.
Stabler, MD, MBA,
Christine M. “The
Effects of Social
Media on Mental
Health.”
Lancastergeneralhe
alth.Org
,
www.lancastergene
ralhealth.org/health
-hub-home/2021/se
ptember/the-effects
-of-social-media-on
-mental-health.
Accessed 14 Dec.
2023.
4.
Social media
is driving
teen mental
health crisis,
surgeon
general
warns,
By
Erika
Edwards
and
Hallie
Jackson
The surgeon
general's report
also blamed social
media for
perpetuating
eating disorders
,
body dysmorphia
and low
self-esteem.
Instead of social
media being
uplifting to young
minds, its doing the
opposite. According
to the article, social
media is blamed for
eating disorders,
lowering self
esteem and even
body dysmorphia.
Edwards, Erika,
and Hallie Jackson.
“Social Media Is
Driving Teen Mental
Health Crisis,
Surgeon General
Warns.”
NBCNews.Com
,
NBCUniversal
News Group, 23
May 2023,
www.nbcnews.com/
health/health-news/
social-media-menta
l-health-anxiety-dep
ression-teens-surge
on-general-rcna855
75.
5.
6.
Part 4
: Create an
outline
using the following template and your work in Parts 1, 2, and
3. Strategically structure your argument and synthesize your research.
Write in complete sentences, but remember—you are not writing an entire essay; you
ar
e only PLANNING the essay using the outline template below.
1.
Introduction
1.
Grab the reader’s attention.
-
Social media is an innovative online platform that has fundamentally altered
people's perspectives on the world and grown to be an essential component of
our culture.
2.
Set a context for the issue.
-
Social media is becoming an essential instrument for everyday social contact as
a result of the development and growth of technology. The fact that 2.65 billion
people use social media and that figure is expected to rise in the next few years
highlights the importance of social media in our world (Clement, 2019). While
social media has greatly benefited our society, it also has a significant
detrimental effect on young people.
3.
State your claim (thesis).
-
Although social media can be instructive and beneficial in some cases,
nevertheless, social media has a negative impact on teenagers, especially
teenagers already exhibiting mental health disorders, due to the fact that it limits
social interaction, elicits negative emotions rather than positive, and has been
found to be a strong link to depression and anxiety.
2.
Argument (repeat this structure for as many paragraphs as you need to
thoroughly support your claim)
1.
State your topic sentence.
2.
Provide evidence to support your claim, including the MLA citation.
3.
Explain how the evidence supports your claim.
4.
Provide additional logic or reasoning to support the evidence, if
necessary.
3.
Counterargument
1.
Mention the counterclaim.
2.
Refute the counterclaim with evidence that disproves the
counterclaim, including the MLA citation.
4.
Conclusion
1.
Come full circle by referring back to claim in the introduction.
2.
Briefly summarize the most relevant and valuable points in a fresh
way.
3.
Show the significance (the “So what?”) of your claim and the
implications the audience should now understand as a result of your
carefully crafted argument.
Social Media:
Some people claim that frequent use of social media can have negative
effects on teenagers who may already exhibit addictive behaviors or mental health
disorders. Should social media use be restricted for all teens? What about teenagers
who show no signs of disorders?
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