Q20 - History student: It is unfair for the History Departme

by **ohthatpatrick** Fri Oct 05, 2018 1:51 pm

Question Type:
ID the Disagreement

Stimulus Breakdown:
HS: It's unfair to ban students from citing internet research that hasn't been peer reviewed. Students should be allowed to read whatever they wish. Otherwise, it's censorship.
HP: Students can read whatever they'd like. (They can READ internet research that hasn't been peer reviewed), they just can't CITE it as though it's reliable support for any claim.

Answer Anticipation:
If we flip the student's three claims, do any sound like something the professor is trying to argue?
Does the professor think "it is FAIR to ban students from citing internet research"? Yes!
Does the professor think "students should NOT be allowed to read anything they wish"? No, she agrees with that.
Does the professor think "if students aren't allowed to read whatever they want, it's censorship." She has no comment on that.

So our prephrase could be "whether or not it's fair to ban students from citing internet research", or maybe it will center on the confusion between "whether you can cite it vs. whether you can read it"

Correct Answer:
B

Answer Choice Analysis:
(A) Neither party said this.

(B) YES, we might have to live with this. The student takes the internet citation ban as censorship .. As a restriction on what students should be allowed to read. The professor clarifies that the internet citation ban only limits what one can cite, not what one can read.

(C) To disagree with this claim, you'd be saying that "censorship of xyz is NEVER justified". Neither party signed off on something so extreme.

(D) The student makes no claim about whether non-peer reviewed research is ever / often / never solid support.

(E) They agree about this.

Takeaway/Pattern: The source of disagreement can be one of the first person's explicit claims OR it can be an assumption the first person made. In this case, our correct answer is testing an assumption or inference that the student made: he appeared to be thinking, "Since you're saying I can't cite these online sources, you're saying I'm not allowed to read these online sources".

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Q20 - History student: It is unfair for the History Departme

Q20 - History student: It is unfair for the History Departme

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