Step Two Informed Opinion essay
Step 2: Understanding differences of opinion: Read the viewpoint summaries and the hyperlinked articles to understand where the points of difference on the leading issue reside…
1. Select at least 2 articles that support the issue
2. Save these articles for use in the following steps
3. Open the articles that you saved for deeper reading and analysis
4. Open a blank word processing document. This will become your Draft Summary.
5. Critically read each article and copy and paste the SIRS citation and any significant ideas, opinions, and facts from each article into the blank Draft Summary (try to keep this section to 1-2 pages)
6. Select at least 2 articles that oppose the issue
7. Copy and paste citations and significant ideas, opinions, and facts into the Draft Summary
8. Save and print the Draft Summary (use a file name that includes the issue language)
9. Show the Draft Summary to your teacher for a signature and approval of your research analysis of the 4 articles