Make a Claim with Toulmin from Blankenship “Organizing Your Ideas” (15-20 min)

Let’s review the steps for making claims and how to build that into a larger argument from the Blankenship reading.

Make a claim about something that happened to you today. What is the claim? What are the grounds? Any qualifier? Any rebuttal? Spend 5 minutes to write something and then we will share.

Read a Research Essay from Textbook, Note the Claims (30-45 min)

Let’s read “Avoiding the Misconceptions: Immigrants are Beneficial to Society” by former Baruch student Suhaib Qasim in our textbook (page 252).

Follow these steps:

• Highlight every single claim you see in Perusall (if someone already has done so, you could comment saying you agree).
• After you get done reading, in one sentence, write out what you think the argument is in the paper (write your sentence as an annotation in Perusall in the last paragraph of the essay).
• Then review the claims you highlight and note which ones are the most important for supporting the overall argument. Be prepared to discuss how these “most important” claims help organize the paper to support the overall argument.

Planning, Planning, Planning…Let’s Do Some Planning (30 min)

Let’s do some planning here!!!!!!!!

First, let’s start with the Research Project. How will you revise it? What pieces of feedback are you going to use (remember you are required to report in your cover letter on how you used two pieces of feedback from classmates and/or Prof. Libertz)? What are things you would like to change or add after reading over your first draft? List out all the stuff you want to do.

Second, backwards plan. You will turn in your second draft of your Research Project on December 8. What is happening on December 7? On December 5? On December 4? On December 2? What do you need to do to get to a full and well-done second draft on December 8?

Now, let’s think about the rest of the semester. By December 20, all other work needs to be completed.

Everyone has to do one of the Final Reflection options (see Blackboard for prompt, can go over this, too).

If you want to do a revision for a grade boost, you have to do one of those.

Extra Assessment Letters need to be done by December 2 (tomorrow).

What’s the plan? What do you want to do? Did you do the survey?

Next Time

• Research Project Draft 2 and Cover Letter is due December 8
• Work on Final Reflection Assignment
• Work on any Grade Boost Revisions