My first big concern for this new assignment is finding a decent controversial issue. There have been so many controversial issues in the past five years alone, plus we are not really restricted to any particular time frame. There are some major controversial issues from prior history that would be interesting to analyze. That is where my second concern comes in.
The paper is about the arguments made by these controversial issues, so there is no way of knowing how good the arguments are going to be till you have picked the issue. I'm guessing controversial issues from longer than ten years ago are going to be more difficult to find arguments on.
My big question was how were going to explain certain arguments from resources others may have not seen or heard of. I suppose we will learn in class how to do that though. Once that is better understood and a solid issue has been picked writing this paper should not be to difficult.
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I absolutely agree with your concerns over picking a topic and finding good resources that argue it. I think we're supposed to bring in the copies of our sources for the paper but not being able to actually explain it would be pretty difficult. Good luck on picking your topic!
I agree that it will be whole lot more difficult to find primary sources on older controversies. I can see a problem arises when trying to find relevant primary sources.
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