Outline
I. Introduction/Homepage
a. In the introduction, we will explain our argument and our position on the argument.
i. We will also include pictures that will be relevant to our topic on the homepage.
II. Argument
a. We should go to Mars instead of going back to the moon.
i. We have already been to the moon.
ii. Going to the moon is expensive, especially since there is nothing there.
iii. We should focus our time and money going somewhere we haven’t instead on somewhere we have already visited.
III. External links
a. This part of the presentation will allow the viewers to see background information.
i. Some links that we will include are:
1. A brief history of NASA
a. A brief history of the Apollo space program
b. A brief history of the space shuttle
c. A brief history of Mars satellite missions
2. We will also include the history of the mission to the moon.
3. The history of the mission to Mars
d. The Voyager Mission
e. The work cited page will also be explained in the external links.
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6 comments:
The topic is great and seems to be very well covered and explained in the outline. I'm not sure how you are going to expand on the argument beyond the few sentences explained in the outline, but maybe if you compared prices for each trip and also specific reasons why the mars trip would be more beneficial then that would be of help
i read today in the newspaper that nasa just lost contact with the thing they have on mars, you maybe could use this when you are giving backgroud or current events in your project
Gagnon067 is right to show concern for content. It seems like you have a homepage, your argument page, and an external links page. This means that you have only two pages that develop your argument. This will lead to an underdeveloped argument.
Out of context, the arguments you provided in section II seem weak:
1) We've already been.- Just because you've been anywhere once doesn't mean you shouldn't go again. That's why you have to come to class more than once.
2) It's expensive.- It's all expensive. When the budget is $100 million, what's a few more million?
3) Nothing's there.- Here you ignore NASA's reasons for going. Nothing is there that you know of, but what is NASA looking for?
4) "We should focus our time going somewhere we haven't . . ." - Repeats the first point.
Do more research and find stronger argumentative points. I can tell from the outline that this presentation would not be up to par.
-Candace
I think we did the outline incorrectly because what we are trying to show is that we will have our main page demonstrating out argument and purpose for the paper and then have a navigation bar linking to seperate pages that we have created. The seperate pages will be used to backup specific topics we have created in our argument.
Our various pieces of the argument will include: it is expensive, we have already gone and done research at the moon and found no useful resources, it is dangerous and time consuming to go back to the moon.
These points intertwind with each other and they back each other up. With the expensive part, we can elaborate on the space program of the 1960s and the amount of money as well as workers it took to go to the moon. Although there are counterarguments to this, including we would spend money to go Mars, but that is why we will need to get strong supporting evidence and facts to help back our side of the argument.
We weren't totally sure how elaborate we were supposed to make the outline but I hope that could clarify our thought process a little bit.
Great topic a lot of good questions to consider, this should make for an interesting paper/multimedia piece. It might be cool if you could see what some NASA employees think about this.
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