Quiz+3

Week 5 Evaluating Articles using the Worksheet Objectives: To help students learn to how much detail is necessary to use the worksheet effectively as a research tool. To help students learn to use the 3 criteria for strong arguments to evaluate articles they intend to use in an essay or research paper.

In class: Using the 3 worksheets from the Voluntary Simplicity article, evaluate each section for relevancy, adequacy (enough) and truth (plausibility). To do this you must: · State the conclusion and main premises. This should be in your own words and as brief as possible to retain the necessary detail. · Are the premises relevant to the conclusion? How do you know? · Do the premises provide sufficient support for the conclusion? Why? · How do you know the premises are plausible/true? (authority issues here)

Note: If you can do this using the worksheet alone, you have enough detail in the worksheet to use it effectively as a source in your essay. If not, then you need to figure out what parts of the worksheet need more work and add it in.

· Review your worksheets on Voluntary Simplicity Article. · Select the section that you feel made the strongest argument. · Explain why you selected that section as the strongest, most convincing part of the article using examples from your in-class analysis of the worksheet. · If you make major revisions based on class work and/or my example sheets, you need to turn in a revised worksheet with your quiz. [200 word minimum—300 word maximum.] Note: I have posted my worksheets for the Voluntary simplicity article under the Quiz 3 link on the wiki page. These represent enough information for me to evaluate the strength of the arguments in the article. However, you may need more information in certain sections that I have provided, so compare mine to yours but do not just switch to using mine for the quiz. I will compare your original draft of the worksheet with any revised worksheets to make sure that you are actually thinking about this not just collecting information.
 * Quiz 3 Due Monday, 4/26 9AM by e-mail attachment rmeredith3@q.com . **