The Pain Of Animals Analysis
ASSIGNMENT: WRITING A POSITION PAPER WORTH 15%
Choose ONE of the four essays below and write a position paper of no less than 800 words. Use the + or - 10% guidelines: that is, no fewer than 700 words and no longer than 900 words. Your position paper must be organized in the form that has been described in this course. Be sure to review carefully the guidelines that follow these annotated titles.
Use APA documentation style for this assignment. You can access the format document through the MacEwan library’s homepage, or contact Writing and Learning Services for a one-on-one appointment. Writing and Learning Services works either via email, telephone, or in person, and is a free, confidential service available to any MacEwan …show more content…
Haldane, p. 225
Haldane’s subject is the law surrounding the use of animals for scientific experimentation. The essay, written in 1928, focuses on the British system before WWII, but Haldane refutes a number of arguments that arc still at issue today. David Suzuki’s “The Pain of Animals” is a good companion piece to this essay.
“One Generation from Extinction” Basil H. Johnson, p. 238
Johnson’s subject is the disappearance of North American Native people’s languages. He explains what language means to its own culture and to scholars attempting to understand native cultures. The tone of this recent essay may surprise you. The problems of identity as experienced by Natives is explored in a more humorous way by Drew Hayden Taylor in “Pretty Like a White Boy: The Adventures of a Blue Eyed Ojibway.”
“Now... This” Neil Postman. p. 243
Postman’s subject is the state of “public discourse” — the ability of people to reason from presented information in the television age. Although some of Postman’s points of reference seem outdated, readers are encouraged to think deeply about the influence of media. Gloria Steinem’s “Sex, Lies, and Advertising” takes the issue into the print …show more content…
Although you will not be handing in what may amount to pages of note-taking and drafting ideas on your topic, that background will make your final essay much stronger.
Check the development and organization of your essay which includes paragraph length (100 - 150 words each) and paragraph structure (topics sentences, transitions and concluding sentences)
Comment on how well your position paper demonstrates your understanding of the essay you are responding to. In particular, you will be graded on how clearly your set out the main ideas in your essay, the quality of the opposing views you have discovered, how well you have refuted those opposing views, and how effectively you have presented your own position. Be sure to write a strong thesis statement and to formulate clear topic sentences for the body paragraphs.
Comment on how effectively you have integrated several quotations and paraphrases from the essay to which you are responding, and how well you have used the APA documentation
Choose ONE of the four essays below and write a position paper of no less than 800 words. Use the + or - 10% guidelines: that is, no fewer than 700 words and no longer than 900 words. Your position paper must be organized in the form that has been described in this course. Be sure to review carefully the guidelines that follow these annotated titles.
Use APA documentation style for this assignment. You can access the format document through the MacEwan library’s homepage, or contact Writing and Learning Services for a one-on-one appointment. Writing and Learning Services works either via email, telephone, or in person, and is a free, confidential service available to any MacEwan …show more content…
Haldane, p. 225
Haldane’s subject is the law surrounding the use of animals for scientific experimentation. The essay, written in 1928, focuses on the British system before WWII, but Haldane refutes a number of arguments that arc still at issue today. David Suzuki’s “The Pain of Animals” is a good companion piece to this essay.
“One Generation from Extinction” Basil H. Johnson, p. 238
Johnson’s subject is the disappearance of North American Native people’s languages. He explains what language means to its own culture and to scholars attempting to understand native cultures. The tone of this recent essay may surprise you. The problems of identity as experienced by Natives is explored in a more humorous way by Drew Hayden Taylor in “Pretty Like a White Boy: The Adventures of a Blue Eyed Ojibway.”
“Now... This” Neil Postman. p. 243
Postman’s subject is the state of “public discourse” — the ability of people to reason from presented information in the television age. Although some of Postman’s points of reference seem outdated, readers are encouraged to think deeply about the influence of media. Gloria Steinem’s “Sex, Lies, and Advertising” takes the issue into the print …show more content…
Although you will not be handing in what may amount to pages of note-taking and drafting ideas on your topic, that background will make your final essay much stronger.
Check the development and organization of your essay which includes paragraph length (100 - 150 words each) and paragraph structure (topics sentences, transitions and concluding sentences)
Comment on how well your position paper demonstrates your understanding of the essay you are responding to. In particular, you will be graded on how clearly your set out the main ideas in your essay, the quality of the opposing views you have discovered, how well you have refuted those opposing views, and how effectively you have presented your own position. Be sure to write a strong thesis statement and to formulate clear topic sentences for the body paragraphs.
Comment on how effectively you have integrated several quotations and paraphrases from the essay to which you are responding, and how well you have used the APA documentation