Choosing the Right Perspective for Your Paper 3 Project

PICKING YOUR PAPER 3 PERSPECTIVE SUCCESSFULLY Laney Mulhollen

What is Paper 3? Paper 3 is a team project where you collaborate with other and give a presentation based on a topic of your choosing. You will choose a topic that is an issue on a global scale and a local scale. Within your topic, you will represent a perspective and present from their viewpoint. Everyone in thegroup will havetheir own perspective. After presenting, you will write a reflective essay about your own work and progress through researching as a team. This presentation will help give you an idea of how to choose a good topic and perspective for the presentation aspect.

Helpful Tips for Choosing Your Topic When picking a topic, you would rather have it broader than too specific Making it too specific can limit the perspectives your group can choose; you will have approximately 3-4 people in your group. Think of 10 social topics right now, or 5 things you are interested in to start. Make sure it is global AND a local issue. Be sure you find evidence on the topic you are interested in from your local areafirst; this will be the hardest evidence to find. Then, develop your topic for a group and start thinking about the different perspectives you canhave from your background research. *Tip: Google 5 areas of research you are interested in, find out what info is out there* 2 countries need to be represented other than US*

HOW TO PROPERLY CHOOSE A PERSPECTIVE Our example topic: Puppy Mills; Puppy Mill Owner

Step 1: Research Your Topic You need to do research on your topic first, as previously mentioned Dr Crihfield will have you use 4 sources for your perspectives and the issues, and 2 for your solutions. You should use more than that to create a basis of knowledge, TIP: Keep a list of all the links you visit for your bibliography later! You need in-depth research- not surface level, but reliable statistics and data that can be presented in you favor. While researching, keep a list of differentsub-topics that come up. Talk with your group about who finds what interesting when researching Tip: Keep a log with you about the progress of you and your group, for the reflective component. Example of introductory evidence (A country's perspective): There are an estimated 10,000 puppy mills in the United States (this includes both licensed and unlicensed facilities). Over 2 million puppies are bred in mills each year.

Step 2: Choosing Your Perspective Think about the points that can be made within your paper. These points have a point of view that is represented by a group or individuals Beware of bias! Review each source carefully, make sure the author is not too opinionated on their side. Make sure sources are up-to-date; try for current articles to start, or 2 years and up to build a foundation Talk with your group about the sub-topics they were interested in while researching Decide a perspective you want to present from within your topic Should be someone representing from the "opposing" side of problem, such a puppy mill owner; have varying perspectives: government official and animal rights group

STOP! REALLY THINK ABOUTYOUR PERSPECTIVE!

Pretend You Are a Car Salesmen If you are a car salesman, you will do everything possible to convince your client to buy the car You would present your car as the best, most important car ever If you tell all about the problems with the car, and not about the new features of the car, nobody will want to buy your car. YOUR TOPIC/PERSPECTIVE IS YOUR CAR!!!!!! SELL YOUR TOPIC AND YOUR PERSPECTIVE'S POINTS WITH YOUR PRESENTATION!

Step 3: Expanding Upon Your Perspective You need 2 reasons to talk about in your perspective Within each reason you will need 2 examples, and you need to validate, analyze and evaluate those. You will make solutions for these later on- do not start thinking about solutions until after you fully understand your research and what the data you find means. Puppy mill owner issues- not selling all the dogs and meeting government restrictions

Difficult Perspective to Find Information On/Unfavored Topic If you find yourself here, do not panic! It is okay. Your topic is important to the group presentation, to hear this side for the overall argument. Try to find introductory research, then go from there Help your fellow teammates out if they are struggling, it will affect your own understanding and limits of your perspective if your team cannot function (record this in your mini-log) Go to your instructor if truly stuck, they will help divide new research up Document any struggles you/team member have for reflective portion Puppy mill example is a bad one selected to help you in thinking process for a bad topic

Step 4: Creating the Presentation Some important technical pieces you will need in your Paper 3: Hook- opening statistic. Make people care about your topic right here Strong evidence- Introduces your perspective and why it matters. Reasons- two reasons needed. 3 points of evidence Graphics- will engage your audience (Need citations for every picture) Script- write out (not type) what you want to say. Writing helps you remember and will allow you to see what you need to say (analysis and evaluation)

Step 5: Presenting Paper 3 Be sure to only present the issues you identify in your perspective Puppy mill owner has the issue of finding animals they breed homes, and government restrictions placed upon them Do not bring up personal bias in your presentation at any time, even if you do not agree with your perspective and the points made within it. Be sure to collaborate with group so no solution is too similar.

AS Strong+Weak Evidence Examples Strong= COVID-19 in Restaurants from a Government Perspective Weak= Police Brutality from a Police Perspective Reason-Police officers are not required to use extensive force unless to protect themselves or others from harm. Reason- Trouble enforcing covid restrictions Example- Due to lack of covid rules being followed, officers have been instructed to issues fines more quickly to those who commit "obvious" and "serious breaches" Example-Tolan was an African American citizen who was shot by officer cotton because he wore a hoodie and cotton accused him of stealing a car and considered him a threat. Analysis-This demonstrates that more enforcement was needed in Britain to combat the large gatherings of people who refused to follow government guidelines regarding COVID-19. Example-Thompson s proposal would create a publicly accessible and searchable database of such cases. Her goal is to hold officers more accountable for their actions, along with the agencies that hire them. Analysis-The information exemplifies how unfair the justice system is and when it comes to racial bias, whites are more likely to get acquitted than minorities. Evaluation-When assessing the situation in Britain, one can see that similar dismissals of government regulations happen in restaurants and the government is struggling to tend to all COVID-19 related offenses Evaluation-When assessing the information, one can see that Florida government should take more serious actions on the civil rights law by proposing a law that would prevent police misconduct and racial bias. Validation-Cover is associated with and is the director of the institute for security law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law Validation-The BBC has extensive experience writing about Britain s national issues.

AS Strong+Weak Evidence Examples Weak= Police Brutality from a Police Perspective Two of this student's examples were included to show how she lost focus about her perspective. By talking about excessive force and using an example about excessive force and not focusing on maybe an accusation falsely made against police officers, training, etc. She weakened her point. Her analysis and evaluation was unfocused and clearly against her own perspective, making her arguments and points weak since she showed he own bias. Strong= COVID-19 in Restaurants from a Government Perspective This was such a strong point because even though this was a difficult perspective to have, the student embodied the perspective and focused on the issues the government has in one of his points made. He stayed focused and allowed for the issues the government faces to be clear.