Week 2 Discussion 1
“Developing Policy
Arguments and Debate” Please respond to the following:
·
Develop a policy
argument or claim that is definitive, designative, evaluative, and advocative,
using one of these terms: (a) crime, (b) pollution, (c) terrorism, (d) quality
of life, (e) global warming, (f) fiscal crisis, (g) human rights, and (h)
unemployment.·
Convert the argument in
the first discussion into a policy debate by providing an objection and a
rebuttal. Explain if and why the qualifier changed after introducing an
objection and rebuttal. If the qualifier did not change, explain why it did not
change.Week 2 Discussion 2
“Policy Arguments”
Please respond to the following:
·
From the case study,
Case 8.1, use the argument mapping procedures presented in the chapter and
provide two pros and two cons (or strengths and weaknesses) of the
recommendation that the United States should NOT intervene in the Balkans.