Homework 3
Note:
(1) assignments appear in the syllabus on the day assigned, not the day due
(2) You must submit your written work by blackboard
(3)
BE SURE TO FOLLOW THE FILE-NAMING CONVENTIONS FOR THIS COURSE (5% penalty if
you do not).
All files should be saved on your computer as:
your last name, followed by an underscore ("_"), followed by the first two letters
of your first name, followed
by an underscore ("_"), followed by the assignment number. So
if a student named Saddam Hussein were to submit assignment number 8, the file
name would be:
hussein_sa_3.doc
THIS IS ASSIGNMENT 3
BE SURE THAT YOU HAVE READ THE EXPLANATORY MATERIAL (see here for start) REGARDING CLAIM/EVIDENCE/WARRANT.
There are just six questions
Don't stop until you see "end of assignment"
Question 1:
Using the paragraph that starts at the end of page 32 from the Sellers reading (starts with "The Museum of the Dominican Man..."), identify the author's claim, evidence, and warrant using the chart below. Feel free to copy and paste.
Element |
Text |
| The
Claim What are you trying to demonstrate? |
|
The Evidence What proof do you have? |
|
Why
do you think that your proof is relevant to your claim? |
Question 2:
The following sentences from a claim/evidence/warrant paragraph have been scrambled and are no longer in their original, logical order. Re-arrange the sentences (you can copy'n'paste if you wish) to construct a persuasive paragraph that is properly structured around the claim/evidence/warrant format. Use the chart below to help you organize the sentences.
Out-of-order Sentences:
|
1) Once across the border, "Cane cutters have no legal rights and no money." Nor, as the organization notes, do the Haitians have any choice about doing the work becuase "if they leave their batey [company town where sugar workers live], they will be picked up by the police and sent back to their batey or to jail." 2) Since a slave is often defined as someone held by violence or the threat of it for the purpose of economic exploitation, the Haitians confined to bateys by violence to cut sugar cane for Dominican plantation owners for pitiful wages should be considered modern-day slaves. 3) As the American Anti-Slavery Society noted in a 2004 report, "Sometimes the Haitians are gathered by force, other times under false pretense of available work. 4) Hatians sugar cane cutters in the Dominican Republic work under conditions that are nearly identical to plantation slavery. |
Element |
Text |
| The
Claim What are you trying to demonstrate? |
|
The Evidence What proof do you have? |
|
Why
do you think that your proof is relevant to your claim? |
JUST 4 MORE QUESTIONS!
continue on to questions 3, 4, and 5