Part 3 is when you will begin drafting and giving each other feedback on your Final Projects. By now, you should have plenty of resources, pros and cons for the different arguments related to your top

PHIL 110 Part 3 of the Capstone Project Part 3 of the Capstone Project In Part 3, you'll use a seven step critical thinking process to help structure your project, and then you'll provide some substantive feedback to your peers on their project. In parts 1 and 2, you've chosen a topic, identified some pertinent resources, pondered the pros and cons for different arguments related to your topic, and have weighed (and hopefully support) one or more solutions to your topic's main issue. Step 1: Post answers to the following questions in the discussion forum for this unit: 1. What are you asking your reader to believe or accept? In other words, what is your main claim ? This will be the conclusion for your argument, so state it clearly and succinctly. 2. What evidence is available to support this claim? This could be bullet points or a set of short paragraphs that serve as reasons or premises for your main claim or conclusion. 3. How would you rate the evidence based on its veracity (truthfulness) and its relevance to your main claim ? (In other words, evaluate the evidence and its logical connectedness to the conclusion.) 4. After evaluating the evidence, can you think if any possible objections (rebuttals) that might be raised against your argument? Can you find any holes in your argument or identify any possible fallacies? 5. What additional evidence would strengthen your argument? This might be a particular data set or an authoritative expert's position on the topic you've chosen. 6. What kind of inductive inferential pattern would best suit your argument -- inductive generalization, statistical syllogism, causal argument, or reasoning by analogy? Explain why, using the definitions of these patterns supplied by our text. 7. Create either a standard format construction (P1, P2, etc., /C) or a map (see the Unit 2.2 video) of your argument, and post it to the discussion forum. Step 2: Read and respond to two students (with in the same topic, if possible) . Use the following prompts for ‘peer feedback’ as your guide . Instructions for Peer Feedback: • Begin with a positive statement on your classmate’s work. Point out what you think they did right. • Do you feel their response relies on factual evidence, or on opinion? If the latter, cite examples of where it relies on opinion and intuition and give suggestions as to how they can write more objectively. • Add 1-2 feedback statements that you believe will help your classmate improve their work. You can use any of the following sentence starters: o The most important thing I think you can do to improve is this ... because … o This one sentence was not specific enough because… o This one idea that you have not fully illustrated with a specific example is... o I think you could have written more about ... because … o I wasn't sure what you meant when you ... because … o I don't think you needed to include ... because …