An Account of an Argument

This paper asks you to identify an argument’s claim and reason. You will also need to explain the general context for the argument, the author’s purpose and audience and how you have been able to determine the context/audience/purpose based on clues from inside and outside of the text. It also asks you to describe the author’s (4) supporting evidence and (5) overall structure, and finally, evaluate the argument in terms of its purpose and audience.

Successful essays will include:

1. Please reading the sample paper essay first.

2. An introductory section that provides all the information the audience will need to understand your argument. This includes the topic of the writing project and your argument claim and reason about the author’s use of evidence and organization.

3. A statement of the claim/reason of “Fake news: Personal responsibility must trump intellectual laziness”

4. A discussion of the general context, author’s purpose and author’s audience, supported by evidence from inside or outside of the text

5. A description and evaluation of supporting evidence.

A. Do you find facts and evidence in the argument? Direct observation? Statistics? Interviews? Surveys? Primary sources such as eyewitness accounts? Secondary sources such as published research? Quotations from authorities? Hypothetical situations? Analogy? Allusion? Personal Experience?

6. A description and evaluation of the organizing structure. To evaluate the article’s structure, you may want to ask yourself these questions:

A. Is the information presented in a logical order? Does the author use chronological order, cause/effect, problem/solution, general to specific, or other ways of organizing information? Do those structures help make the argument more persuasive?

7. A conclusion that clarifies whether you believe the Matt Chan has written an effective argument based on the evidence and organization they chose to convince the audience of their purpose.

8. A “Works Cited” or “Reference” page.

An Account of an Argument

This paper asks you to identify an argument’s claim and reason. You will also need to explain the general context for the argument, the author’s purpose and audience and how you have been able to determine the context/audience/purpose based on clues from inside and outside of the text. It also asks you to describe the author’s (4) supporting evidence and (5) overall structure, and finally, evaluate the argument in terms of its purpose and audience.

Successful essays will include:

1. Please reading the sample paper essay first.

2. An introductory section that provides all the information the audience will need to understand your argument. This includes the topic of the writing project and your argument claim and reason about the author’s use of evidence and organization.
3. A statement of the claim/reason of “Fake news: Personal responsibility must trump intellectual laziness”
4. A discussion of the general context, author’s purpose and author’s audience, supported by evidence from inside or outside of the text
5. A description and evaluation of supporting evidence.
A. Do you find facts and evidence in the argument? Direct observation? Statistics? Interviews? Surveys? Primary sources such as eyewitness accounts? Secondary sources such as published research? Quotations from authorities? Hypothetical situations? Analogy? Allusion? Personal Experience?

6. A description and evaluation of the organizing structure. To evaluate the article’s structure, you may want to ask yourself these questions:
A. Is the information presented in a logical order? Does the author use chronological order, cause/effect, problem/solution, general to specific, or other ways of organizing information? Do those structures help make the argument more persuasive?
7. A conclusion that clarifies whether you believe the Matt Chan has written an effective argument based on the evidence and organization they chose to convince the audience of their purpose.
8. A “Works Cited” or “Reference” page.

An Account of an Argument

This paper asks you to
identify

an argument’s claim and reason. You will also need to
explain

the general context for the argument, the author’s purpose and audience and how you have been able to
determine the context/audience/purpose based on clues from inside and outside of the text. It also asks
you to
describe

the author’s (4) supporting evide
nce and (5) overall structure, and finally,
evaluate

the
argument in terms of its
purpose and audience.

Successful essays will include:

1.

Please re
ading the sample paper essay first.

2.

An introductory section that provides all the information the audience will
need
to understand
your argument. This incl
udes the topic of the writing project and
your

argument claim and
reason about the author’s use of evidence and

organization.

3.

A statement of the claim/reason of
“
Fake news: Personal responsibility must trump intellectual
laziness”

4.

A discussion of the gen
eral context, author’s purpose
and
author’s audience, supported by
evidence from inside
or
outside of the

text

5.

A description and evaluation of supporting

evidence.

A.

Do you find facts and evidence in the argument? Direct observation? Statistics?
Interviews?

Surveys?

Primary

sources

such

as

eyewitness

accounts?

Secondary

sources
such as published research? Quotations from authorities? Hypothetical situations?
Analogy? Allusion? Personal

Experience?

6.

A description and evaluation of the
organizing structure
. To evaluate the article’s structure, you
may want to ask yourself these

questions:

A.

Is
the information presented in a logical order? Does the author use chronological order,
cause/effect, problem/so
lution, general to specific,
or
other ways of organizing
information?
Do
those structures
help
make the argument more

persuasive?

7.

A conclusion that clarifies whether you believe the
Matt Chan

has
written an effective
argument based on the evidence and
organization they chose to convince the audience of their
purpose.

8.

A “Works Cited”
or
“Reference”

page.

An Account of an Argument

This paper asks you to identify an argument’s claim and reason. You will also need to explain
the general context for the argument, the author’s purpose and audience and how you have been able to
determine the context/audience/purpose based on clues from inside and outside of the text. It also asks
you to describe the author’s (4) supporting evidence and (5) overall structure, and finally, evaluate the
argument in terms of its purpose and audience.

Successful essays will include:
1. Please reading the sample paper essay first.

2. An introductory section that provides all the information the audience will need to understand
your argument. This includes the topic of the writing project and your argument claim and
reason about the author’s use of evidence and organization.

3. A statement of the claim/reason of “Fake news: Personal responsibility must trump intellectual
laziness”

4. A discussion of the general context, author’s purpose and author’s audience, supported by
evidence from inside or outside of the text

5. A description and evaluation of supporting evidence.

A. Do you find facts and evidence in the argument? Direct observation? Statistics?
Interviews? Surveys? Primary sources such as eyewitness accounts? Secondary sources
such as published research? Quotations from authorities? Hypothetical situations?
Analogy? Allusion? Personal Experience?

6. A description and evaluation of the organizing structure. To evaluate the article’s structure, you
may want to ask yourself these questions:

A. Is the information presented in a logical order? Does the author use chronological order,
cause/effect, problem/solution, general to specific, or other ways of organizing
information? Do those structures help make the argument more persuasive?

7. A conclusion that clarifies whether you believe the Matt Chan has written an effective
argument based on the evidence and organization they chose to convince the audience of their
purpose.

8. A “Works Cited” or “Reference” page.

Fake news: Personal responsibility must trump intellectual laziness

Fake news: Personal responsibility must trump intellectual laziness

By

Matt Chan

January 4, 2017

Where do you get your news? That question has become incredibly important given the results of our Presidential Election. How many times have you heard, “I read a news story on Facebook and …” The problem: Facebook is not a news service; it’s a “social media” site whose purpose is to connect like-minded friends and family, to provide you with social connections, and online entertainment.

For Asian Americans social media provides an important and useful way of connecting socially and in some cases politically, but there is a downside. The downside is how social media actually works. These sites employ elaborate algorithms to track and analyze your posts, likes, and dislikes to provide you with a custom experience unique to you. The truth is you are being marketed to, not informed. What looks like news, is not really news, it’s personal validation. All in an attempt to keep you on the site longer, to click a few more things, to make you feel good about what you’re reading. It makes it seem like most people agree with you because you’re only fed information and stories that validate your worldview.

On the other hand, real news is hard work. Its fact-based information presented by people who have checked, researched, and documented what they are presenting as the truth. Real news can be verified.

“Fake News” is, well, fake, often times entirely made-up or containing a hint of truth. Social media was largely responsible for pushing “fake news” stories that were entirely made up to drive clicks on websites. These clicks in turn generated money for the people promoting the stories. The more outrageous the story, the more clicks, the more revenue. When you factor in the algorithms that feed you what you like, you can clearly see the more “fake news” you consume on social media, the more is pushed your way. There’s an abundance of pseudo news sites that merely re-post and curate existing stories, adding their bias to validate their audience’s beliefs, no matter how crazy or mainstream. It is curated solely for you. Now factor in that nearly 44% of Americans obtain some or most of their news from social media and you have a very toxic mix.

The mainstream news media has also fallen into this validation trap. You have one news network that solely reflects the right wing, others that take the view of the left-center leaning, and what is lost are the facts and context, the balance we need to evaluate, learn, and understand the world. People seeking fact-based journalism lose, because the more extreme the media becomes to entice consumers with provocative headlines and click-bait to earn more money, the less their news is fact-based and becomes more opinion driven.

There was a time when fact-based reporting was required of broadcast news. It was called “The Fairness Doctrine,” a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) policy introduced in 1949 that required holders of broadcast licenses (TV and radio stations) to present controversial issues of public importance in an honest, equitable, and balanced manner. The doctrine had two basic elements: It required broadcasters to present these issues and provide contrasting views, the very definition of fair and balanced reporting. But in 1987, the FCC, under President Ronald Reagan, eliminated the Fairness Doctrine, an event that some feel was a contributing factor for the rise of political party polarization in the United States and led us to where we are today in the mainstream media.

So what does this intersection of social media and news mean for you? It means that it’s now a matter of personal responsibility to make sure you’re not consuming “fake news” or propagating misleading information without vetting the facts of the stories you consume. It is your job to become more media literate. To make sure what you are reading, watching, and sharing is true and fact based. To know when you are being informed or marketed to. To question the origin of “news” stories that show up on your wall. To seek out credible fact-based reporting that strives to tell the truth that is so important to a democratic society. To not do this is the ultimate in intellectual laziness.

We all need to support journalistic efforts that reflects what is important to the communities we value and are part of. There is a strong fact-based journalism community in Seattle, news sources that cover Seattle’s issues, with diverse voices like the 

International Examiner

, 

Crosscut

, 

Seattle Globalist

, and the 

South Seattle Emerald

, which are all excellent examples of community-based journalism. We’ve seen where commercial news and social media has taken us when the main goal is to make money; it’s a world we will have to live in for the next four years. Real fact-based citizen journalism can and needs to flourish in the age of Trump.

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Fake news: Personal responsibility must trump intellectual laziness

By

Matt Chan

January 4, 2017

Where do you get your news? That question has become incre
dibly
important given the results of our Presidential Election. How many
times have you heard, “I read a news story on Facebook and …” The
problem: Facebook is not a news service; it’s a “social media” site
whose purpose is to connect like
–
minded friends a
nd family, to provide
you with social connections, and online entertainment
.

For Asian Americans social media provides an important and useful
way of connecting socially and in some cases politically, but there is a
downside. The downside is how social med
ia actually works. These
sites employ elaborate algorithms to track and analyze your posts,
likes, and dislikes to provide you with a custom experience unique to
you. The truth is you are being marketed to, not informed. What looks
like news, is not really

news, it’s personal validation. All in an attempt
to keep you on the site longer, to click a few more things, to make you
feel good about what you’re reading. It makes it seem like most people
agree with you because you’re only fed information and stories

that
validate your worldview
.

On the other hand, real news is hard work. Its fact
–
based information
presented by people who have checked, researched, and documented
what they are presenting as the truth. Real news can be verified
.

“Fake News” is, well, fa
ke, often times entirely made
–
up or containing
a hint of truth. Social media was largely responsible for pushing “fake
news” stories that were entirely made up to drive clicks on websites.
These clicks in turn generated money for the people promoting the
s
tories. The more outrageous the story, the more clicks, the more
revenue. When you factor in the algorithms that feed you what you
like, you can clearly see the more “fake news” you consume on social

Fake news: Personal responsibility must trump intellectual laziness

Fake news: Personal responsibility must trump intellectual laziness
By Matt Chan January 4, 2017
Where do you get your news? That question has become incredibly
important given the results of our Presidential Election. How many
times have you heard, “I read a news story on Facebook and …” The
problem: Facebook is not a news service; it’s a “social media” site
whose purpose is to connect like-minded friends and family, to provide
you with social connections, and online entertainment.
For Asian Americans social media provides an important and useful
way of connecting socially and in some cases politically, but there is a
downside. The downside is how social media actually works. These
sites employ elaborate algorithms to track and analyze your posts,
likes, and dislikes to provide you with a custom experience unique to
you. The truth is you are being marketed to, not informed. What looks
like news, is not really news, it’s personal validation. All in an attempt
to keep you on the site longer, to click a few more things, to make you
feel good about what you’re reading. It makes it seem like most people
agree with you because you’re only fed information and stories that
validate your worldview.
On the other hand, real news is hard work. Its fact-based information
presented by people who have checked, researched, and documented
what they are presenting as the truth. Real news can be verified.
“Fake News” is, well, fake, often times entirely made-up or containing
a hint of truth. Social media was largely responsible for pushing “fake
news” stories that were entirely made up to drive clicks on websites.
These clicks in turn generated money for the people promoting the
stories. The more outrageous the story, the more clicks, the more
revenue. When you factor in the algorithms that feed you what you
like, you can clearly see the more “fake news” you consume on social