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ASSIGNMENT: Following the Topic Selection Guidelines below, choose an argumentative topic to research. This will be your topic throughout the entire course, so the activities required for this assignment will provide the foundation for your future Touchstones. The topic for an argumentative research paper must be a debatable topic, meaning that it involves conflicting viewpoints. Additionally, it cannot be a topic that is already decided or agreed upon by most of society. You will need to take a firm position on the topic and use evidence and logic to support the position. Touchstone 1.2 includes a research question, a working thesis, a detailed outline, and a reflection on this pre-writing process.
A. Topic Selection Guidelines
DIRECTIONS: You may choose any topic you wish as long as the topic has two clear sides and is not agreed upon by most of society. Your topic should be current, appropriate for an academic context and should have a focus suitable for a 6-8 page essay.In order to foster learning and growth, all essays you submit must be newly written specifically for this course. Any recycled work will be sent back with a 0, and you will be given one attempt to redo the Touchstone.
C. Reflection Questions
DIRECTIONS: Below your assignment, include answers to all of the following reflection questions.
Learning to conduct research is important because it is a skill you will use both in academia and in your professional life. It improves critical thinking and empowers you to find information for yourself. Consider the process of researching as a whole. What was the most challenging aspect of the process for you? (2-3 sentences)
The working thesis statement is a proposed answer to your research question. It should clearly identify a debatable topic and take a position on one side of that topic. Analyze the effectiveness of your working thesis statement. (3-4 sentences)
A detailed outline is an effective tool for laying out the progression of an argument. It allows you to consider the arrangement and organization of your ideas, as well as choose places to incorporate outside source materials. Review your detailed outline and summarize the argument you’ve presented. (3-4 sentences)
You will use the same topic on three of the remaining Touchstones in this course. What kind of feedback would be helpful for you? What are specific questions you might have as you go deeper into the research process? (2-3 sentences)

As a young professional, WHY are hard deadlines important? OR
are deadlines really important? In your answer, reflect on the fact
that CDS-130 has hard due dates (aka: deadlines) where you do not get
credit if your submission is late. Is the CDS-130 class policy on
deadlines/due-dates Ethical and/or fair?
Due dates are each Wednesday and Saturday
each week around 7-8 assignmnets

Write a response to all assigned readings. Rather than summarize the reading(s), write a critical reflection that makes connections between the themes they raise, buildings, images, and ideas presented in class. This may include forming a question or two in response to the readings (with some attempt at answers), a critique, an endorsement, or a connection to something else you’ve read or seen in readings, etc.
To earn the full ten points, your essay should be submitted on time, approximately 300-350 words long, and relevant to the reading(s). (Responses are to be written in grammatically correct, traditional English—not as text messages.)Requirements: 300-350 Words Times New Roman Size 12 Font Double-Spaced APA Format Excluding the Title and Reference Pages | .doc file
Please be sure to include an introduction with a clear thesis statement in the last sentence of the introduction paragraph
Please be sure to carefully follow the instructions
Please do not exceed 350 Words Times New Roman Size 12 Font Double-Spaced APA Format Excluding the Title and Reference Pages | .doc file since this is the maximum word requirement
No plagiarism

Write a response to all assigned readings. Rather than summarize the reading(s), write a critical reflection that makes connections between the themes they raise, buildings, images, and ideas presented in class. This may include forming a question or two in response to the readings (with some attempt at answers), a critique, an endorsement, or a connection to something else you’ve read or seen in readings, etc.
To earn the full ten points, your essay should be submitted on time, approximately 300-350 words long, and relevant to the reading(s). (Responses are to be written in grammatically correct, traditional English—not as text messages.)

Write a response to all assigned readings. Rather than summarize the reading(s), write a critical reflection that makes connections between the themes they raise, buildings, images, and ideas presented in class. This may include forming a question or two in response to the readings (with some attempt at answers), a critique, an endorsement, or a connection to something else you’ve read or seen in readings, etc.
To earn the full ten points, your essay should be submitted on time, approximately 300-350 words long, and relevant to the reading(s). (Responses are to be written in grammatically correct, traditional English—not as text messages.)

Write a response to all assigned readings. Rather than summarize the reading(s), write a critical reflection that makes connections between the themes they raise, buildings, images, and ideas presented in class. This may include forming a question or two in response to the readings (with some attempt at answers), a critique, an endorsement, or a connection to something else you’ve read or seen in readings, etc.
To earn the full ten points, your essay should be submitted on time, approximately 300-350 words long, and relevant to the reading(s). (Responses are to be written in grammatically correct, traditional English—not as text messages.)

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These speeches
require you to provide steps that will help your audience understand how
to accomplish a specific task or process.
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However,
“how to” speeches can be tricky in that there are rarely universally
agreed upon (i.e. irrefutable) ways to do anything. If your professor
asked the students in his or her public speaking class to each bring in a
recipe for baking chocolate chip cookies, would all of them be the
exact same recipe? Probably not, but they would all be similar and, most
importantly, they would all give you chocolate chip cookies as the end
result. Students giving a demonstration speech will want to avoid saying
“You should bake the cookies for 12 minutes” since that is not how
everyone does it. Instead, the student should say something like:
“You can bake the cookies for 10 minutes.”
“One option is to bake the cookies for 10 minutes.”
“This particular recipe calls for the cookies to be baked for 10 minutes.”
Each
of the previous three statements is absolutely a fact that no one can
argue or disagree with. While some people may say 12 minutes is too long
or too short (depending on how soft or hard they like their cookies),
no one can reasonably argue that these statements are not true.
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A Demonstrative Speech is one in which you will demonstrate to your
audience how to do something. It is easiest to decide on a topic if you
start with a verb, such as:
How to Do something
How to Make something
How to Fix something
How something Works

George Orwell (in the “The Road to Wigan Pier”), says the primary conflict of the 20th century is that between “socialism and fascism [authoritarianism / totalitarianism],” the two political systems which, for him represent the spectrum between political justice and injustice. Read about different types of political systems and then explain whether (and how) this conflict is still at work in the world today. What is the benefit of each system?

Attached is the rubric and everything needed. Needs to be completed in 4 hours or less.
To complete this assignment, you must do the following:
Identify a specific process that interests you. This process
may involve cooking, crafting, or sports, or even setting up a game,
app, or online program, etc. The more focused, the better! If you aren’t
sure what might work, let me know!
Brainstorm the steps that it takes to complete the task.
Order the steps and identify which steps should be sub-steps.
Draft
an introduction that contextualizes the process for your specific
audience and conclusion that offers suggestions for troubleshooting or
what users might do next.
Add other sections that may be necessary, such as
warning/caution/danger explanations, explanation of tools, a glossary,
or an appendix.
Conduct a user test (if possible)! Ask someone from your
specific audience to follow your instructions. Make adjustments based on
their questions, concerns, and problems with completing the process.
Revise the instructions. Ensure that each step begins with an
imperative phrase and that the steps are organized sequentially. Add an
appropriate title that is clear and straightforward.
Take photographs or find appropriate fair use images to add to
your instructions. Ensure that they have labels, captions, and/or
alt-text depending on your subject.
Design the instructions page so that it includes plenty of
white space, attends to best practices in document design, and matches
the character of the process. For example, a set of instructions about
how a member of your audience might create a Twitter account and begin
tweeting would likely use the Twitter symbol and the “Twitter blue”
colors. Ensure that fonts and images are large and easily readable.
Submit your instructions.