Exam 2 Analysis and Evaluation Worksheet
Instructor: Valerie Hannah
Exam 2 Analysis and Evaluation Worksheet
Use this worksheet to analyze and evaluate the article provided to you for Exam 2. Please type
your answers directly into the boxes provided and please use bullet-point or numbered format.
Also, you will need to submit this worksheet along with your exam for credit. If you do not
submit this worksheet, showing your work, you may receive a zero on the exam
.
What is the issue?
The issue is that lotteries are teaching children
that you can earn rewards without any hard work
or sacrifice and it doesn’t teach any values.
What is the author’s conclusion?
Author’s conclusion is that lotteries should be
eliminated.
What are the reasons the author gives to
support their conclusion?
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Schools are teaching students about
honesty, hard work, and sacrifice and out
of that would come rewards, however
the lottery teaches that you can be
rewarded without any hard work.
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It creates an atmosphere of “getting
something for nothing”
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lottery income for schools has provided
excuse for cutting back on state funding
that our schools need to do their job
What words or phrases are
vague/ambiguous and used in the author’s
argument?
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flourishes
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illusory
What are the value conflicts and the
author’s value assumptions?
What are the descriptive assumptions?
Identify any fallacies in the reasoning.
Identify any evidence used to support the
author’s argument. How good is the
evidence?
Revised 03.2021
