Task.
Use the proposal attached to do paper
Write an academic position paper that intervenes in a debate about technology. To do so, you’ll need to take into account the skills you learned from your Debate Analysis Annotated Bibliography. Given your analysis of your chosen debate, what kind of argument should you primarily make (e.g., conjecture, definition, quality, or policy), and for which particular audience should you make that argument? While the skills you learned from Unit 2 Annotated Bibliography tells you where you need to begin, much of the work in writing this academic position paper will involve fleshing out that argument. To do so, you’ll need to do three things:
Define your audience. (See below!)
Invent or come up with a combination of persuasive appeals to logos, ethos, and pathos that are appropriate for your intended audience. To do this, you’ll need to think carefully about your audience’s values, beliefs, and assumptions and attempt to find common ground. What values, beliefs, and assumptions do you hold in common with your audience?
Find and cite evidence in support of your particular argument, and frame that evidence in ways that are appropriate for your rhetorical situation.
. You will need to find at least four relevant and credible sources through your own library research and use them to support your argument. You’ll include copies of these four sources when you turn in your final academic position paper.
Audience and purpose.
While you have a say in defining your audience and purpose for this position paper, keep in mind that you have to do so within constraints. Your audience has to be one that would value academic forms of argumentation and that espouses one or more of the positions you analyzed in the debate analysis. Similarly, your purpose has to take into account your audience and reflect the conclusions you drew from your debate analysis.
Requirements.
Length: 1000-1200 words (excluding Works Cited page)
Formatting: 12 pt Times New Roman,, or other standard font; 1-inch margins; MLA parenthetical citations and Works Cited page
