Any questions? Now, with that, I will leave it to you. I think Olivia, here, start the lesson. All right. Hi everyone. I think Abby was going to share her screen. Yes. I can everyone see this. Okay. Good morning, everyone. My name is Olivia Anthony. Today we're going to teach you how to write an argumentative essay. So here's a statement. University should provide every student with a personal laptop computer included in the price of tuition. I'm sure some of you have some strong feelings about this. So I know a little bit limited and emojis, so how about you give me a thumbs up if you agree and the applause a few disagree. Alright. Starting to see some opinions here. Alright? So today we're going to be learning how to write an argumentative essay. And what you just did is you took a position on a topic. We're going to elaborate on that today. The key terms are going to be talking about our argument, evidence, citations and rebuttal. You're going to first learn how to write an argument for your position, like the one you just took. Your going to find evidence to support your argument. And you're going to learn rebels are and how to respond to them. Though, what you just did was took a position on a topic. You took a position on an issue that paves the way for you to argue for your position. Now, you don't necessarily have to argue for my position. So what I want you guys to do now is dropped some ideas in the chat of topics you think you could write an argument about. And they don't have to be political, they don't have to be controversial. That could be anything from laptops to will Schuster belongs in jail, is put those in the chat. Anybody have any strong opinions on pineapple on pizza? And this is a safe space for people who like pineapple on pizza. Just go, that's a good one. Hats ooh. It's a hot take for virtual school. Who, Andy, I like that one. Counseling services should definitely be more forward. Alright, well, it looks like we've got some good ideas in the chat. So now what I want you to do is you're going to go to the Padlet that I'm going to put in the chat right now. And you're going to think of at least three reasons that your your position on the topic that you thought of is the most correct one. And don't worry about finding evidence right now cuz you're gonna be doing that later. Just write a topic and three reasons that you think that position on that topic is correct. And as you can see, there's an example already in the Padlet. I'm going to give you guys about five minutes to do this. And if your name isn't on Padlet, if you listed as anonymous, Can you please put your name at the top as well? Yes. Good point. Holloway and put our name or you can put it in the header or just somewhere where after you type your points, you could put your name and like parentheses after that. Some really interesting arguments here. Whoa. Oh, hey guys, I'm just seeing some that don't have names on them. So I just like to ask that if you if you are listed as anonymous, please do write your name on here at Padlet entry. I'm agreeing with whoever is writing this one. I think that's a hit. Carolina like yours. That isn't very hot. Take about Derrida is gonna get again about one more minute. I start wrapping up right about now, we can move on to the next part of the lesson. Okay, so now that you know how to take a position on the topic, you're going to need sources to back up your evidence. Now source that you need are going to need to be credible. So you can just Google the first thing that the first article to get the most reliable evidence to back up bigger sport. So some incredible places to find. Credible sources like databases are a Google scholar, J Storer, and then your school's library probably has a huge database of reliable evidence. Now, regular websites can be credible if they provide sufficient proof that you think that they're credible. So usually.gov or.edu are pretty safe, but you still have to check them out. Wikipedia, as we all know, is not a very reliable source, but a good way to find reliable sources if you come across Wikipedia page is to scroll all the way to the bottom and then you're going to find the references that they used to write that. And now another, now, now that you know how to find reliable sources, you're going to want to be able to cite them correctly. And so the correct inset in-text citation for website, for MLA format is the website name or the article name under in parentheses at the period after it. And you can include paragraph number if you feel like it, but because there's no it's not an actual book, you're not going to need an author or a page number in that way. But you will need a bibliography at the end of your article, at the end of your paper, which the reader of your paper can look at the site from the length that you put in the bibliography and compare to what you quoted. And I always make sure to cite, always give credit where credit is due because then you can end up under plagiarism which no-one wants, and that's not very good. So now we're going to play a game called, Is that a reliable source? We're gonna go to? We're going to go to for sources and you're gonna tell me if you think they're reliable or so. Here's source number one. Can we all see this, this one I got from Google Scholar. I already got it from Google Scholar, and this is just what article looks like. It's about. All these articles are about a COP9 team to keep it one topic, but just you guys can unmute or put it in the chat or anything. If you guys think that this is a reliable source based on where I got it and what you can see. Yes, it is rival. Thank you. The next step, we have this article on coronavirus from Wikipedia. It might look reliable. What do we think? Not reliable and where, where can we go to find reliable sources from this page? Yes. Can the bottom think if next another source that I got from j, sorry about coronavirus. What do we think and reliable? And finally, this is a article on coronavirus and how commonplaces takeaway Thanksgiving and Christmas to rethink its rival are not reliable. No, definitely not. Alright, very good, good job. So now we're going to try setting out our own sources. So we're going to drop this link to a Coke 19 impacts on education article. And you're gonna pick one line from the, the first introduction paragraph. You could it, on the article you you can tell it says introduction and there's paragraphs under it. You're going to pick one from the first paragraph. You properly cite any line of text from. It doesn't have to be anything you think that's four-inch any line of text. You're going to put that in the chat privately to us, please. Anyone of us mesa near Olivia, and then you can use the paragraph number if you feel like it, but you properly cite it. Take couple of minutes to do that. Uh-huh. Just take a couple more minutes, finish up. You add 30 more seconds. Okay. Very again, all your answers were really good. It shows that you know what you're doing a good job. And so now just Quigley in the chat, I just want you guys to say, what is one place where you can find reliable information based off of what we learned before, can be either we're the ones I mentioned, just put in the chat. It doesn't have to be individually to Isaac beat everyone. Ut Library, Google Scholar or J store.org websites database, Perfect. You jump. Alright, so just as there's evidence in favor of your position, there's also going to be evidence against it. So see if you can find a rebuttal for the position that you took on your topic from the Padlet and it should be from a reliable source. But if you pick something like Doritos or dogs are better than cats, you might have a little more trouble finding a scholarly article about that, though, to see if he could find a rebuttal for the position that you chose that seems to have sufficient proof or evidence and put it in the chat. Okay. What I like about some of the sources that they also link to other sources. So that helps you know that they're credible. You just want to make sure that the forces are also credible because you never take anything at face value. Looks like you guys did a pretty good job finding sources. So just now something to think about when you're writing your essay and you're finding evidence for your book, rubbles is when you're finding them, you want to think about how you can address the rebuttal that you found as well. So. You're looking for evidence against what you're thinking. You have to think about. How can I take this and then turn the other way. That's just another tip that I now enter our final integration. For our final integration, I just want to call on some people to just answer some quick questions. So sar, just like to ask everybody what are some strong arguments that you saw at the start of class? This could be in the chat or this could be in the Padlet. With cans, cans or some strong arguments, Esau, you're unmuted. So I'm thinking that I really liked and these argument that counseling services should be more affordable because I feel like it is something that she could find a lot of information on for and against it. Just because of my experience with like the University of Delaware Bay in French or brands like and how counseling services are unaffordable bullet how they should be based off like suicide rates and stuff like that. So I feel like sheath and really find great sources for that. And also their reasoning was very good, you are. And what were some good, some good arguments that you saw at the start of class, what stuck out to you. I thought all the arguments are really good, but I think some of the ones that stuck out to me, we're talking about like Lauren talked up, schools should pushbacks, dark times. And I just thought that's a really interesting one because a lot of people have very different opinions on that. And you can look at it from a parent's perspective or a teacher's perspective and thinking about the different consequences of where when you would start school and how it would affect different families. Great, great. Yeah. So Let's go with Ken's again. What do you think would be like a reputable source for talking about more affordable counseling, how it could impact people. I can make people feel It's more secure. We were already were, you'd think you could find something like that and reputable source. Maybe like psychology database, thoughtful about why Moore's affordable options will be better than **** Gleick, incidence of mental health crises. Yeah, that will really, really work. That would be a great one. Let's, let's bring up just a different, or let's say someone was talking about climate change. Scotland. 2n, What do you think would be a good source for talking about climate change? And I'm not sure me vk did it. We could use like assignments test textbook instead of going online. If you have like a textbook for a class that may WHO would work that would work because those are usually peer-reviewed. So Tyler, a what do you think would be some counterarguments that he could prepare against? That someone would say, if you're, if you're writing about climate change is real, what, what do you think some people's counter arguments against that point would be a good, fun one is, but it's cold outside. So therefore, climate not changing. Yes. And do you see that one a lot. And Shannon, What do you think would be a rebuttal for that point? Something that you could fire back against that way. Higher pack against the, but it's cold out or I would think it's cold out is the rebuttal for that argument that obviously climate change isn't happening if it's cold out or at least that's something people's opinions, even though that may not be scientifically. What would you say to argue against that statement? Well, then I would find more reputable sources. I'd say that argue against that. Say that despite the fact that it's cold, climate is still changing and all that kinda stuff. That's great. Cannula next slide already. So our final integration is going to be a many alkaline exercise. So obviously we do not have time to read the entire essay in like 15 minutes, but we do have time to write the bones of what would create your essay. So the basic structure. So throughout this class you should have been thinking about different things that you could argue for. Now some of the things that we started off class arguing for might not exactly make the best taper. But you can still think of something. So I'd like everyone to open up a Google doc and just create a blank Google doc. And at the top of your Google doc, I want you to write down something that you thought of arguing for either at the start of class or as we've gone on. But something that you can think you can backup with scientific journals and sources. So maybe not something like pineapple and pizza, but something that you think we could write a whole paper on. So I want you to write down that main point as one to three sentences. And that is going to be your thesis. And you can either share the Google Doc with all three of us and add that professor one at the start of this. Or you can share it with the MDR choice. But you will have to share it with all four of us. You can also drop the link. If you don't want to shared individual dropped a link and check your privacy settings so that we can all see it? Yes. After you write down those one to three sentences of your thesis, we want you to kind of maybe add one or two more sentences so you can make it into just an introductory, small introductory paragraph. Again, this is an outline so you don't have to write a whole essay. It can be as rough as z1. You just want to get the idea across. And this is what my point is. This is what I'm going to be saying about it. And that's it. Okay. It looks like everyone's kind of getting through this, so I would like to ask everyone I would like to ask you guys to try and find some credible sources that you could use to back that up. So this includes one scholarly source from the sites that we told you about. And if you've been paying attention, you should remember what those sites are on. And then one appropriate source from a regular appropriate, let's say it doesn't have to be scholarly, doesn't have to be peer reviewed, but it has to be something that you can trust. Not Wikipedia, not some conspiracy theory website, but something that maybe is like a government website and R3 are in edu website. Maybe if you're writing about I endangered sea life, you could check out an aquarium, something like that. And you don't have to properly cite these again because this is an outline. We want you to just find the links for those two things. Mm-hm. So I'm just going to give everyone one more minute to find their source. Looks like everyone's doing pretty good so far. So good job. Oh, okay. So now I'd like everyone to bullet 0.1. Reason why you're getting for your case. Why do you think that this is a point that's worth arguing for? Why do you think it's correct? This can be something that would would've been backed up by your sources. But you want to write down one reason, just a bullet point. Because this is just a bullet point. I'm going to give everyone one more minute to write down the little bullet point. Okay, so now we're going to add another thing that you could turn into your other body paragraphs. So body paragraphs are what makes up your book, your essay. So obviously you're going to have why you believe this. And then under that, we're going to put in what do you think people would fire back at you with o say if you believe again and again with climate change, someone saying, oh, but it's cold outside right now, so it's not real. Something like that. You need to just write one little bullet point. What do you think someone would say if they disagreed with your point? Think ahead of time what someone would say. It doesn't have to be very complex. It doesn't have to be something very well thought out. Again, it's just the outline of what NSA could be for brainstorming here. And then after you write that counterargument, I want you guys to create a rebuttal against that. So just as they shoot back at you, you're going to shoot them down. You're gonna say, actually, this is the truth, that you can fire back at them way. So think of it like a bit of a conversation that you're thinking ahead of time with tyler leaving the Earth is round. Very nice. I'm gonna give everyone just a few more minutes. Everyone's working really fast. Okay, can we move on to the next slide, please? So I'd like to thank you guys for coming for our listening to what we have to say. And just for one final thing, we would all like you to fill out this formal formative assessment. Wish Olivia has just dropped a link in the camp and gear Libya. And we would just like to close by saying that argumentative writing is a very important skill. It's something that you're gonna be using probably for the rest of your life. There's always going to be points that you're gonna wanna argue for. There's always going to be positions that you're going to take and you need to know how to properly backup your arguments. And we hope that we have at least some knowledge of where to look, how to write these things and just how to make your points in general. So thank you for listening and just everyone, I would like you to fill these out. Thank you. And you can have about ten minutes to do that, I think. Oh. And when everyone's done, if they could just react with the thumbs up icon, that'd be great. So we just, when you're done. Wow. Ooh. Oh, oh, yeah. Does anybody need more time for the form? You can just done in the chat If you're done. I think it's safe to say they're done. I think it's safe to say that unto all right. Thank you guys for dumping. Thank you for listening. And we hope that you've learned something for people who have not shared. Whoever hasn't shared yet. Can you please just again, Professor Wong has just listed all the emails that you need to share with. So just you can type our names in and UD actually will auto fill in someone with the same name that you're typing the email that's associated with that. Or you can copy-paste the emails. Professor Wong has just listed, but please please share your things. Otherwise, we can't tell if you have done it. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. To instructors. Definitely need to see what you've learned in that last part of the law said. So please do share some times afterwards, even though they may have access to link right now. If you don't share, they may not be able to go back to it. So that's why it's sharing with these specific emails is very helpful. Alright, so thank you all for a great lesson on argumentative writing. So let's give the group around of applause. Thanks everyone. All right. So there's one more thing that I have asked that you guys do and that's to provide feedback on the lesson. And I'm going to sin and Google formally for you to do. And when I put this in the chat box, you can click on the link and complete the form. Once you complete the form, You guys are free. Those of you who are from 25 into 58, you're free to go. So have an excellent day again. Thank you so much for being here today. Oh, oh, oh. Okay. Those of you in the next group of learners won't be here to about 120. If you guys want to take a break, tell let's say 18. So that we can began properly at 120, so that the group has their full time. Alright. So you guys want to take a break until 118? Well, you guys can go ahead and do that. Professor Wong. Could you re Rose Marie and Tyler Nurnberg gallery. So even like check, like relax a Singapore fee. Alright, I'll put you guys and I break up with him. Okay? Right. Oh. 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