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Adding Research to Your Final Critical Essay
This week, we will begin to add research to our Critical Essay. For your first post, you will break down your thesis into claims and counter claims. You will cOMPOSE a simple topic outline and find a source to support each claim. At least two of the sources must be from the Keiser Library databases. One source must be a quotation from your textbook. The fourth source can be from your book, another book, the databases, or a credible online source.
Sample provided
Initial post: Outline with four sources. A brief statement about your research including one thing you learned or discovered about your topic.
Peer responses (2): Comment on the reliability, relevancy, and accuracy of format on their sources. Offer a suggestion on how to strengthen the flow or organization of their outline.
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How to Outline
Outline Template
Outline Sample Please delete any text in red, and replace the information in the outline with your text.
Be sure to include the following? Topic: What can history teach us? Quotation: “What all [super] powers have in common is that the complex social systems
that underpinned them suddenly ceased to function. One minute rulers had legitimacy in
the eyes of their people; the next they didn’t.” (292) Thesis Statement: America’s decline is due to irreconcilable divisiveness, disrespect for
legitimate leaders, and loss of civility in general I. Introduction
A.
Attention getter or hook: The greatest threat to the United States of
America is not illegal immigrants, Islamic terrorists or nuclear war; the grim –
faced executioner of freedom and democracy is someone you know, or perhaps
that someone is staring at the screen reading this right now.
B. Define the threat of public polarization C. Lead into quote D.
Thesis statement: America’s decline is due to irreconcilable divisiveness,
disrespect for legitimate leaders, and loss of civility in general.
II. III. Historical perspective paragraph
A. Example B. Transition Argument One: Divisiveness
A. Topic sentence on divisiveness
B. Quote or data to support
C. Response to quote
D. Concluding/transition sentence IV. Argument Two: Disrespect for Leadership
A. Topic sentence on leadership
B. Quote or data to support
C. Response to quote
D. Concluding/ Transition sentence V. Argument Three: Loss of Civility
A. Topic sentence B.
“Although incivility in America was present at the creation, it is
nevertheless hard to deny that incivility in America has increased as platforms for
public speech have proliferated.” (Lindberg, 2012) VI. C. Response to quote D. Concluding sentence Conclusion References Ferguson, Niall. 2011. “America’s ‘oh sh*t’ moment”. In Gilbert, A. (Ed.). The McGraw Hill
reader issues across the disciplines. (pp. 291- 295). New York. NY. McGraw Hill. Lindberg, T. M. (2012). The Politics of Incivility: where discourtesy meets democracy in modern
American life. Commentary, 134(2), 35+. Retrieved from
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