Comparing Solutions

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Comparing Solutions

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Essay 3.3
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What you have to do

• Explain the problem, its causes, and its context
• Explain two or three realistic and feasible
  solutions to the problem, including a discussion
  of both advantages and shortcomings
• Recommend one of those solutions to the decision
  makers
• Be written in a reasonable and credible voice
• Reference any sources both in-text and in a Works
  Cited list, using MLA format
• Show reasonable error control
• Be 1200 words in length

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Works Cited Page
Works Cited California Wildlife Protection
Coalition. California Mountain Lion Page. 27 Mar.
1996. Sierra Club. 24 Mar. 1999
lion. Eagan, Terrence M., Wayne Long, and
Steven Arroyo. Rebuttal to Argument against
Proposition 197. 1996 California Primary
Election Server. 1996. California Secretary of
State. 24 Mar. 1999 ballot/197again2.html. Hansen, Kevin. Cougar
The American Lion. Flagstaff Northland,
1992. Hornocker, Maurice G. Learning to Live
with Lions. National Geographic July 1992
37-65. Lion Attacks Prompt State to Respond.
New York Times 18 Oct. 1995, late ed. A21.
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In-Text Citations
Internet source with no page number
Calling Proposition 197 a special interest
trophy hunting measure,the coalition claims that
the Gun Owners of California, the NRA, and the
Safari Club rammed the proposition onto the
ballot while hiding behind a disingenuousconcern
for public safety. Asserting that the mountain
lion poses a minimal threat to humans, the
coalition accuses the Department of Fish and Game
of creating a climate of fear so that the
public will choose to reinstate lion hunting
(California Wildlife Protection Coalition).
Credentials of author mentioned in signal phrase
As lion authority John Seidensticker remarks,
The boldness displayed by mountain lions just
doesnt square with the shy, retiring behavior
familiar to those of us who have studied these
animals (177). He surmises that the lions have
become emboldened because they no longer have to
contend with wolves and grizzly bears, which
dominated them in the past.
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The New Bits

• Explain two or three realistic and feasible
  solutions to the problem, including a discussion
  of both advantages and shortcomings
• Recommend one of those solutions to the decision
  makers

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Realistic and Feasible

• Shows awareness of the complexities of the
  problem
• Shows awareness of available resources
• Takes into account stakeholders

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Considers Advantages and Shortcomings

• Obvious Write about why the solution is good
• Not so obvious Write about why the solution is
  bad
• There is NO SUCH THING as a perfect solution
• There will always be a problem with any given
  solution.
• Find the problem(s)
• Explain it/ them

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Recommend a Solution

• Considers
• Decision makers
• The reality of the situation
• Stakeholders
• Solution is weighed against some sort of criteria
• DO NOT randomly pick a solution
• And if you do, dont say that you did

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Developing criteria

• Decide what an ideal solution will do
• Decide what an ideal solution will take into
  account
• Cost
• Ethics
• Diversity
• Time
• Etc.

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OK

• Get into groups of 4
• You MAY NOT be in a group that has recently
  worked together

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So you own a spaceship

• and Lubbock (along with the rest of the world,
  but who cares about anything outside of Texas) is
  about to be obliterated. You have about 10
  minutes before you need to be headed off-planet
  to a little place you know of outside of Omicron
  Perseii 8. Its small, but its a lot like earth.
  Of course, youre going to have to make it on
  your own once you get there
• Other than the folks in your group, you have room
  for two people on your ship. Theres no time to
  wander around looking for people to
  save---however, it just so happens that a bus has
  broken down in front of your launch pad. You can
  save
• Lupé Garcia 80, Mexican American, Catholic,
  grandmother in good health
• Jean Garcia Three months old, Mexican American,
  healthy
• Scott Barnes 20, Caucasian, skinny, drunk, bad
  teeth, currently employed at McDonalds
• Leanne Johnson 45, divorced, African American,
  female, heart surgeon with 4 children and a
  broken leg
• Keith Newton 30, homosexual, Caucasian, male,
  flight attendant, enjoys music as a hobby,
  physical fitness buff.
• Bill Austin 55, Caucasian, ex-marine, experience
  in construction, very handy, sympathizes with
  anti-African American views, currently has
  bronchial pneumonia
• Keira Knightly 21 year old movie star
• Dr. Gonzales 66, Mexican American, Catholic,
  doctor in general practice, two heart attacks in
  the past five years, loves literature
• Ms. Otto The bus driver, a rather unfriendly
  Caucasian woman in her late forties, ninth-grade
  education, former prostitute, married at age
  sixteen, divorced at age eighteen, smokes 2 packs
  a day
• Who do you take with you, and why?
• Be prepared to, as a group, present your choices,
  along with your justifications, including reasons
  why you did not choose someone, to the class.