Assignment 2: LASA 1: Course Project Task I

Argument Paper Section 1

Your local town is addressing the following issues in its
law-making:

1. Should people under 18 be subjected to legal curfews or
restricted driving privileges?

2. Should libraries be required to install filtering software or
otherwise censor the materials that they provide?

3. Should insurance companies in your state be required to pay
for breast reconstruction, birth control pills, or Viagra?

4. Should the use of camera phones be banned in local gymnasiums
or other locations?

As an active citizen, you ask to research and present to the
town’s citizens one of the above issues. The governing body has
agreed and asks that your presentation be specifically designed to
show citizens of the community how and why one of the issues above
is controversial and how to be educated consumers of information
regarding this issue. They ask this because the citizens will be
voting on these issues in future elections and the governing body
wants its citizens to be properly educated on these topics.

In your presentation, make sure you include the following:

Remember, you are giving a presentation to an audience that does
not know much, if anything, about your topic.

Explain the issue, including definitions of common terms
involved in the issue and why this issue is controversial.

Identify and describe three to four different conclusions that
are drawn when arguments related to the issue are made.

Summarize the kinds of evidence typically used for each
constructed argument related to the issue. Be sure to discuss the
reasons these kinds of evidence are used and/or are most
effective.

Analyze how each of the different conclusions regarding the
topic use particular evidence to support their claims, paying
particular attention to analyzing how the conclusions rely on
different facts, different sources of evidence, or different
reasoning from other conclusions. In other words, explain why
certain groups would use a particular type of evidence while an
opposing group would use a different type of evidence, or how two
groups can represent that same data in two completely different
ways.

Utilize at least three different sources and properly cite them
throughout the presentation.

The presentation should be 8 to 10 slides long, and each slide
should have complete, formally written slide notes (proper grammar,
APA formatting, and academic tone) for record-keeping purposes and
in the event there are citizens who are deaf or hard-of-hearing at
your presentation. The slide notes must include proper APA citation
of sources, proper paragraphing, and proper grammar and tone.
Visually, the slides should be easy to read. A properly
APA-formatted reference page must be the last slide of your
presentation. See the rubric for more specific requirements of the
presentation.