OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS Field Trip

J I recommend you check off these steps as you complete them.

STEPS to use the Opposing Viewpoints database:

____1. Go to the S.C.C. Library Home page.

____2. Under the heading Library Databases, click on Opposing Viewpoints.

____3. If you are off campus, please enter your Student I.D. number in the box where it asks for your library card number. Click Continue.

____4. Scan the many topics in both columns.

____5. Pick several of topics of interest, click on them, and explore each of them a bit.

____6. For each topic you explore, see if you can find two opposing essays.

For example, under Alcoholism you will find essays arguing that Alcoholism should be treated as a disease (#1 and # 2) and essays arguing that Alcoholism is not a disease (#5).

Under Genetic Engineering you will find an essay entitled Human Cloning Should Be Banned (#1) and an essay entitled and Genetic Engineering of Humans is Ethical (#2).

Under Media Violence you will find essays arguing that media violence has an effect on human behavior (#2 and #5) and essays arguing that the evidence is exaggerated or inconclusive (#4 and #6).

You get the idea.

____8. Settle upon one of the topics you explored and read both opposing essays.

____9. Keep this resource in mind—we’ll use it later in the quarter.