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Presenting A Key Moral Issue Each group will be assigned a contemporary moral issue to research and present to the class. Visual displays such as charts, diagrams and tasteful pictures (if applicable to the topic) will be expected. Equal participation is required of each member. At the end, you will anonymously evaluted by your fellow group members. Also, it is extremely important that we be mature at all times. Even though many adults can't legitimately discuss such topics as abortion, I know that this class will achieve the level of maturity needed. Four easy to remember sections below will help you to fully understand any concept that you want to learn. A. Define it: To understand any topic, you must first understand the minor terms and concepts that it includes. In other words, you have to understand what you are talking about. (1) What is the key question? (2) What other questions must be answered before the topic can be understood? What terms must be defined in order to fully understand the breadth of the subject. B. Demonstrate it: Explain your topic to the class in words that they can understand. Sometimes it is helpful to explain by example. Give the class a situation to help put things into perspective. Present an analogy that may shed light on the point you are trying to make. You may think that what I do is easy, but you may find out that adequately explaining complicated concepts can be very difficult. This is where those visual displays may come in handy. C. Defend it (and argue against it -- debate it): This will be the hardest of the sections. (1) Present arguments in favor of one conclusion to your topic or question. It doesn't matter if you agree with it or not, you must still understand and be able to adequately present each side of the debate. At this point you should remain generally neutral. (2) Present arguments against that conclusion. (3) Find problems. After presenting both sides, you need to talk about the problems with them. Does one side assume too much? Do they reason incorrectly (fallacies....)? Does their conlusion follow from their premises? Does the argument even make sense at all? {Feel free to add some of your own ideas here // your own arguments, etc.} D. End it: The last thing to do when giving a presentation is to conclude. Restate some of what you did. Give us questions for further thought. After that there will be a question / answer session as well as time for discussion. -- If you work hard (with your group) and do the best you can, you will all get A's on this assignment!! ==> Don't forget to turn in all of your notes and resources to me !! Questions: 489-8417 [email protected] |