Urban legend

What is an Argument of Fact?

The “argument of fact” involves reading and analyzing the facts that you will either gather yourselves or glean from other authors’ claims about your topic of choice. You should be synthesizing material from multiple sources around a main point rather than simply reporting/summarizing facts you find by source. As you’re working through this paper, you should be skeptical of what a “fact” is.

The Assignment:

Your assignment for this project is to choose a topic, identify an issue and argument surrounding that topic, and then report on the facts of that issue. You are establishing reasons (facts) that prove something true or false, or you are reporting on the the details that led to a certain claim or belief. You will choose a topic from the list below and write your paper based on an argument surrounding that topic. You can take two slightly different routes that accomplish the same thing. 

Your main argument for this paper should answer one or more of the following questions: (See CWG p.198 under “Fact” for more questions)

Did something exist or didn’t it? What are the facts of the situation?

What happened? How? To Who?

Whodunnit? Who’s the Monster?

Option 1:        

In this option, you will (1) study an urban legend, (2) set out to find facts about that urban legend, (3) determine the point at which people disagree about the urban legend, and (4) then provide evidence (facts) that prove the urban legend false.

            Example:

(1)   
Urban Legend:  “The Curse of the Bambino”

(2)   
Facts: The Boston Red Sox became cursed after they sold Babe Ruth, the Bambino, to the New York Yankees. The team went almost 100 years without winning a World Series after the sale.

(3)   
Identify the Argument Surrounding Topic: A lot of people agree that the Red Sox performed poorly after they sold Ruth. The real argument here is that the sale of Ruth cursed the Red Sox.

(4)   
After you determine the argument, you will use your critical thinking skills and you will conduct research to provide those who believe in the curse with evidence (facts) that prove that the curse was true or false. One point you might make is that when Ruth went to the Yankees, he drew all talent from other teams and recruits away from the Red Sox and to the Yankees, allowing the Yankees to succeed and the Red Sox to fall into a slump.

Option 2:

In this option, you will (1) pick a conspiracy theory. Next, you will (2) research the reasoning behind the conspiracy theory and (3) the facts of the case against it. You will then (4) analyze the evidence and prove in your paper why the conspiracy theory is false.

Example:

1)     
Conspiracy Theory: The moon landing was faked

2)     
Theory: Humans have never had the technology to leave the atmosphere because it’s impossible, so the moon landing was filmed as government propaganda against the Soviets.

3)     
Facts: We landed on the Moon.

4)     
The conspiracy theory is false because we have testimonials from the astronauts and eye witnesses.

Option 3:

In this option, you’ll (1) pick a villain/antagonistic from a comic book movie or an animated Disney movie. Next, you will (2) remove the primary factor within the story that makes a character from that story a villain/antagonist or anything you know about the character from outside that piece of media. You will then (3) find and detail evidence as to why that character is either the hero of the story/right in what they are doing or that they are still the villain of the story for factual reasons.

Example:

1)     
Villain: Iron Man in Captain America: Civil War

2)     
Strip away the fact that you know Iron Man is a hero for all the reason you could name outside the movie.

3)     
Look at his actions in the movie and ask yourself: are you Team Iron Man or Team Cap? Are you team security through bureaucracy or team freedom and unaccountable vigilantism?

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