PT150 S3 Q20 ExplanationHistory student: It is unfair

Answer choices, explained

1. A

   Agree, if anything5% picked this

   research papers written for a history class require some citations to be from sources that

   Neither person has a stance on whether "all" research papers written for "any" history class require some peer reviewed citations. And when it comes to this History Department they are in, they would agree that the current policy wants citations from sources that are peer reviewed. Another way to put this: the fight is over whether history departments should be requiring cited works to be peer reviewed. This answer is only talking about are history departments requiring such cited works.

   5%
2. B

   Correct86% picked this

   prohibiting a certain sort of online source material from being cited as a research reference amounts to prohibiting students

   Why this is right

   While the student never says this answer explicitly, he does seem to be assuming this idea, given his transition from his first to second sentence. He goes from saying, "We're prohibited from citing Wikipedia" to saying, "This is ridiculous. We should be allowed to read anything we wish. Why are they censoring us?" So he seems to be thinking that prohibiting the citation of Wikipedia amounts to prohibiting the reading of Wikipedia. Do the professor's claims support the Disagree Position, that "prohibiting students from citing Wikipedia does not amount to prohibiting them from reading it"? Yeah, again through the innuendo communicated by her pair of ideas. She is saying, "Yes, students can't cite Wikipedia, because it's not a peer reviewed source so it's unreasonable to treat it as reliable support. But students are allowed to read whatever they like." This is a weird correct answer, because it's definitely not touching on the central disagreement: whether it's fair / unfair for the History Dept. to forbid using Wikipedia as a cited source. Instead, it touches on an invisible association they're both making between whether a student can cite anything they want and whether they can read anything they want.

   Skill tested: Agree/Disagree · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   86%
3. C

   Unsupported 2nd Person: censorship3% picked this

   censorship of the reading of research publications that are peer reviewed can

   The professor never addresses the concept of censorship at all, so we have no idea what she thinks in regard to that topic.

   3%
4. D

   Unsupported Agree Position4% picked this

   sources that are not peer reviewed often have solid support for the claims

   We know that the professor would disagree with this claim -- she thinks that sources that are not peer reviewed can never reasonably be treated as reliable support for any claim. But can we support the Agree position? Does the student say that sources that aren't peer reviewed often have solid support for the claims they make? No, he says nothing like that. He clearly thinks it's unfair that he can't cite such sources in his paper, but it's too big a leap to think that because of this, he must believe that such sources often have solid support.

   4%
5. E

   Agree2% picked this

   students should be allowed to read whatever they wish to in preparing to write a research paper

   Both parties agree to this. Neither of them are trying to put any limitations on what students should be allowed to read.

   2%