Exam 12: Arguing

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -The author, Zeynep Tufekci, describes her discomfort with research on avatars designed to interact with children with what type of psychological condition?

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -What percentage of young people had been put in solitary in 2003?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -The suicide rate for minors in adult prisons was ____________ as high as that of older inmates.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Look at the structure of the essay. In what order and how is the information presented? Is this strategy effective? Explain.

The tragic plight of our children clearly reveals our deep disregard for public well-being. About one out of every five children in this country lives in poverty, including one out of every two black children and two out of every five Hispanic children. Most of our children-neglected by overburdened parents and bombarded by the market values of profit-hungry corporations-are ill-equipped to live lives of spiritual and cultural quality. Faced with these facts, how do we expect ever to constitute a vibrant society? One essential step is some form of large-scale public intervention to ensure access to basic social goods-housing, food, health care, education, child care, and jobs. We must invigorate the common good with a mixture of government, business, and labor that does not follow any existing blueprint. After a period in which the private sphere has been sacralized and the public square gutted, the temptation is to make a fetish of the public square. We need to resist such dogmatic swings. -Cornell West -How is the evidence in this paragraph organized: general to particular, particular to general, from one extreme to another?

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -The author believes that a growing interest in artificial intelligence and social robots points to our general willingness to do what?

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -Teenagers no longer need their rights protected if they have been incarcerated.

Television does not satisfy, or else why would the viewer continue to watch hour after hour, day after day? "The measure of health," writes Lawrence Kubie, "is flexibility… and especially the freedom to cease when sated." But the television viewer can never be sated with his television experiences-they do not provide the true nourishment that satiation requires-and thus he finds that he cannot stop watching. -Marie Winn -Whom do you think the author is addressing in this paragraph? How did you come to this conclusion?

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -One other category that is often overlooked is people who are either not that comfortable at some aspects of face-to-face conversation but find online interaction to be liberating .

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Does the essay address opposing viewpoints? Does it do so effectively? Why or why not?

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -I am a partisan for conversation.

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -Such a subjective argument cannot be refuted with all the data showing people are just as much, if not more, connected now compared with most of 20th century.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -What are the author's arguments against the constant use of digital devices? What type of evidence does the author use to support these arguments? Are the arguments persuasive?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -After reading the essay, have you been convinced that solitary confinement should be banned for minors? If yes, explain the specific points that have convinced you. If not, explain specifically what the essay needed to convince you. More Ideas for Writing

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -How long has the author studied the ways people connect through technology?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -No state-nor the federal government-has banned ____________ of teens in adult jails and prisons.

Read the following paragraphs and answer the questions after each paragraph. The United States has not made a mistake by admitting millions of immigrants since the law was changed in 1965. Indeed, America's liberal immigration policy is one of our proudest public accomplishments. But America's liberal immigration policy is more likely to find continued acceptance among most Americans and keep the nativists at bay if the immigration preference system is changed to assure a fairer and more nationally diverse pool of immigrants. So let's not turn our backs on one of the most successful American ideas. Let's get it right. -Peter Salins -Whom do you think the author is addressing in this paragraph? How did you come to this conclusion?

Why are arguing and persuading so closely related?

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -According to Tufekci, what category of people may "find themselves left out of conversation"?

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -What evidence we do have does not suggest a displacement of one type of conversation (offline) with another (online).