PHIL347 Course Project: Argumentative Paper Checklist
To successfully complete this assignment, review this material:
- Textbook: Chapters 12 and 13.
- Week 6 Lesson
Introduction
This checklist should be the final step as you prepare to write your argumentative essay. You should have completed your research and thought about what you will write and how you will present it. This checklist will help you to organize your points and make sure you have good support for your argument, as well as an effective response to opposing arguments: PHIL347 Course Project: Argumentative Paper Checklist.
Instructions
This assignment is worth 30 points. To successfully complete this assignment, you must respond to the seven (7) bold-faced writing prompts.
Questions
- What question am I answering?
Answer: What is the impact of mobile phones in schools?
- What is my conclusion? (For example: defunding the police is not a good idea)
Answer: The impact of mobile phones in schools exhibits negative repercussions.
- What are my reasons? Very briefly, state your conclusion as “therefore” and your reasons as “because”.
BECAUSE mobile phones in schools affect academic performance
BECAUSE mobile phones in schools affect the implementation of curriculum
BECAUSE mobile phones in schools affect classroom roles
THEREFORE, the impact of mobile phones in school exhibits negative repercussions.
In today’s society, technology is applied in schools through smart devices to aid in learning and curriculum implementation. Consistently, it is vital to analyze and establish the impacts of mobile phones in school. This analysis will indicate whether the impacts of mobile phones in school yield many benefits or exhibit negative repercussions.
- Each of your reasons as
1) strongly relevant and supportive
2) relevant, but not strongly supportive
3) needs work
Reason One – Mobile phones in schools affect academic performance is supportive of the argument and relevant to schools.
Reason Two – Mobile phones in schools affect the implementation of the curriculum is relevant to the question but will require research to establish support.
Reason Three – Mobile phones in schools affect classroom roles is related to the topic but will require research to establish support.
- For each of your stated reasons, list the type of evidence you think you will need
Reason One – Mobile phones in schools affecting academic performance will require factual evidence and expert opinion to offer support.
Reason Two – Mobile phones in schools affecting the implementation of curriculum will require textual evidence from secondary sources, including textbooks and articles.
Reason Three – Mobile phones in schools affecting classroom roles will need analogical evidence to compare classroom roles before and after the use of mobile phones in classrooms.
- What is the strongest opposing argument?
ANSWER: An argument that strongly opposes the argument that the impact of mobile phones in school exhibits negative repercussions is the argument that mobile phones foster learning by overlooking restrictive factors such as time and location, as indicated during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
- How can you best respond to that argument in a way that will convince your audience to agree with your conclusion? Look at the following checklist of possible responses to opposing arguments (Graff & Birkenstein, 2009). Which one(s) will work best for your argument?
- The claim that _____ rests upon the questionable assumption that _____.
- X may have been true in the past, but recent research has shown that ________.
- By focusing on _____, X has overlooked the more significant problem of _____.
- Although I agree with X up to a point, I cannot accept the overall conclusion that _____.
- Though I concede that _____, I still insist that _____.
- Whereas X has provided ample evidence that ____, Y and Z’s research on ____ and ____ convinces me that _____ instead.
- Although I grant that _____, I still maintain that _____.
- While it is true that ____, it does not necessarily follow that _____.
Graff, G., & Birkenstein, C. (2009). They say/I say: The moves that matter in academic writing (2nd ed.). Norton.
From the checklist above, “Although I grant that _____, I still maintain that _____.” works best for the argument because it can be stated as “Although I grant that mobile phones foster learning, I still maintain that the impact of mobile phones in school exhibits negative repercussions.” This will provide an excellent way to convince an audience of my conclusion with the support of three reasons.
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Question 
Augmentative Paper
To successfully complete this assignment, review this material:
- Textbook: Chapters 12 and 13.
- Week 6 Lesson
Introduction
This checklist should be the final step as you prepare to write your argumentative essay. You should have completed your research and thought about what you will write and how you will present it. This checklist will help you to organize your points and make sure you have good support for your argument, as well as an effective response to opposing arguments.
Instructions
This assignment is worth 30 points. To successfully complete this assignment, you must respond to the seven (7) bold-faced writing prompts.
Questions
What question am I answering?
- Answer: The Impact of Mobile Phones in School
What is my conclusion? (For example: defunding the police is not a good idea)
- Answer:
What are my reasons? Very briefly, state your conclusion as “therefore” and your reasons as “because”.
EXAMPLE:
BECAUSE defunding the police will not make communities safer
BECAUSE defunding police will disproportionately affect marginalized communities
BECAUSE defunding the police will make it difficult to recruit qualified candidates
THEREFORE, defunding the police is not a good idea
If you can write out the conclusion and the reasons supporting it, and a few words about why the subject is important, you have the main elements that you need for an opening paragraph that contains a good “road map” thesis statement.
4. Each of your reasons as
- 1) strongly relevant and supportive
- 2) relevant, but not strongly supportive
- 3) needs work
Reason One
Reason Two
Reason Three
Examine your because/therefore statement. Are the reasons you plan to develop supportive of your conclusion? Suppose one of your reasons is that defunding will cause police officers to be laid off – they will be out of work and may have trouble finding other jobs.
Defunding could certainly have such a result, but is it a good reason? If an institution is fundamentally flawed and considered harmful, then the fact that people won’t have jobs in that institution will not be convincing to opponents.
Your opponents – people who want to police defunded – aren’t going to care if people lost their jobs – your opponents want fewer police.
5. For each of your stated reasons, list the type of evidence you think you will need
Reason One
Reason Two
Reason Three
Supporting reason 1 – type of evidence needed
Supporting reason 2 – type of evidence needed
Supporting reason 3 – type of evidence needed
For each of your reasons, ask yourself if you have recent credible and authoritative evidence to support that argument. What kind of evidence will you need? Obviously, one type of evidence would be statistics on crime increases in cities that have defunded police. Here is a list of types of evidence:
Factual evidence
Expert opinion
Statistical evidence
Textual evidence from a source document, for example, studies, surveys, research papers
Analogical evidence – comparisons to similar situations
6. What is the strongest opposing argument?
ANSWER
For this part of the checklist, choose just one opposing argument: the one you believe may be the strongest opposing argument. For example, in an argument supporting defunding police, a strong opposing argument would be that when police departments’ budgets are cut, violence and civilian injuries increase.
How can you best respond to that argument in a way that will convince your audience to agree with your conclusion? Look at the following checklist of possible responses to opposing arguments (Graff & Birkenstein, 2009). Which one(s) will work best for your argument?
PHIL347 Course Project: Argumentative Paper Checklist
The claim that _____ rests upon the questionable assumption that _____.
X may have been true in the past, but recent research has shown that ________.
By focusing on _____, X has overlooked the more significant problem of _____.
Although I agree with X up to a point, I cannot accept the overall conclusion that _____.
Though I concede that _____, I still insist that _____.
Whereas X has provided ample evidence that ____, Y and Z’s research on ____ and ____ convinces me that _____ instead.
Although I grant that _____, I still maintain that _____.
While it is true that ____, it does not necessarily follow that _____.
Graff, G., & Birkenstein, C. (2009). They say/I say: The moves that matter in academic writing (2nd ed.). Norton.
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