Exercise: Argumentative Proposal (Planning Document)
How do you plan to construct your own argument? Since your audience will be an academic one, your planning document should follow an accepted academic structure for presenting your claims and your evidence.
? Your proposal should address the following questions in paragraph form, so that your instructor and a peer reviewer will understand how you plan to argue your ideas in Essay 3:
o What are the important claimsin this ongoing conversation about media violence?
o What are some of the opposing claimsin this ongoing conversation about media violence?
o What do you think is questionable or problematic with some of these claims?
o What is yourclaim in this conversation?
o What might the scholars say about your claim? (Use the ideas you gained from your research so far)
o What specific example of media violence will you use to support your claims? How will this example further your overall argument?
o What is your "working thesis"? What must you discuss in this essay in order to argue the position you are taking in the thesis?