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In preparation for your final project, the portfolio essay, I'd like you to write about the class goals. Pick one of the five goals from the class Web site, and write about it. What do you think it means? What are some examples of class work we have done to learn about that goal? Have we learned enough about to fully understand the goal? What more does Mr. Munger need to do to ensure that we know what we need to know for this class?

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  • "You will be able to read and evaluate written arguments (including your own). You will be able to identify the value of a claim, the evidence used to support that claim, and the quality of the evidence. In addition, you will be able to identify and explain the assumptions (warrants) behind a text." In class we have done many excercises to evaluate arguments, indentify claims, find evidence, and identify warrants in arguments. We have done this is our papers we have written, in peer review essays, in adver
  • I feel the third goal has been emphasized more than any other goal discussed in class."You will be able to read and evaluate written arguments (including your own). You will be able to identify the value of a claim, the evidence used to support that claim, and the quality of the evidence. In addition, you will be able to identify and explain the assumptions (warrants) behind a text." We have broken down many writings in class, wrote the different parts on the board, and included these items within our paper
    • I agree that all of the in-class exercises were very beneficial, especially when learning warrants. I didn't understand warrants at all until one day in class where we did a group exercise on them. It was a great teaching technique and helped a lot.
  • "you will be able to evaluate the credibility of sources (academic and popular; primary, text-based, and electronic) used as evidence in an argument." we have learned in the classroom how to evaluate all the sources, know how many steps doesn't go from my claim, and how I can find a better sources.
  • "You will be able to read and evaluate written arguments (including your own). You will be able to identify the value of a claim, the evidence used to support that claim, and the quality of the evidence. In addition, you will be able to identify and explain the assumptions (warrants) behind a text."Now I am able to evaluate written arguments, and find the warrant, evidence, acknoledgment..etc. know what kind of claim has been written in any argument, whether it was a claim of policy or another kind.

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    by klly ( 640870 )
    The second goal is that you will be able to read and evaluate written arguments. We have definitely covered this goal, and I have successfully learned all that it entails. For each of our papers, we went over claims, evidence, and quality of the evidence throughly. I think Mr. Munger did a good job at covering this goal.
    • I agree. We've gone over multiple articles dissecting each part of their argument and determining whether or not it is valid. We've even found faults in arguments presented by relatively important political figures such as the ex-Attorney general.
  • "You will be able to articulate several perspectives that surround an issue. While recognizing the multiple sides to an issue and respecting particular aspects of those perspectives, you will be able to advance an argument for a single position. "

    I think that this goal is necessary so students learn to see an issue from all perspectives, like an educated person. However, when students see an issue from all perspectives, they can also use this to help debunk the contrary one that they may be arguing for. Th
    • I agree with this. I beleive that using an opposing issue helps to make your argument a worth while issue. By using all opposing sides it brings everything together to make your argument complete and often help with a solution to the problem.
  • The fifth goal is about being able to use a variety of invention strategies and appropriate organizational patterns, to revise for audience and purpose, and to edit for spelling, punctuation grammar, and syntax. I feel we have meet this goal because over and over again in class we have read over others work and learned how to help each other. Through reading other people's work i realized things about my essay i needed to fix. Also by learning how to go step by step and sentence by sentence i have learned

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