MODR1760D SU14 LPA Worksheet Answers
Week 9B July 3
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PASSAGE ANALYSIS STEPS
Adapted from Saindon & Krek, Critical Thinking, p. 213, Table 8.1
WHAT IS THE MEDIA/PASSAGE ABOUT? Step 1: Skim read the passage • Skim for meaning, purpose, and conclusion. • Read the passage over once from beginning to end without marking it up. • Familiarize yourself with the purpose and main ideas in the, not to identify all the details. Step 2: Read for detail and annotate the article • Draw a line separating each paragraph of the article. • Number each paragraph. • Underline or highlight the main point (topic sentence) of each paragraph. Do not over highlight. Indicate only the most main points. • Indicate the main or central concepts by circling, underlining, highlighting. • Highlight, circle or underline any words that you do not know the meaning of. Look these words up in the dictionary. Write the definition in the margin of the article or insert definition in body of the text. • Put boxes around logical indicator words. • Make notes in the margins about your response to the article; for example, your thoughts, emotional reaction, questions, confusions, interesting points, and so on. Step 3: Create a Summary of the Passage • Type out each of the main points for each numbered paragraph. • Divide your summary into parts. • Give each part/section a title that helps you understand what that part/section of the passage is about. • Complete steps 4 and 5 below, and include your answers in your Word doc summary. Step 4: Preparation • Identify the main conclusion of the passage. • Identify the two main concepts around which the passage turns. • Formulate the main conceptual question with which the passage is concerned.
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MODR1760D SU14 LPA Worksheet Answers
Week 9B July 3
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WEEK 9B LPA Worksheet In the minds of most Americans, narcotics and alcohol are linked inextricably with addiction, and idea that conjures up images of the crazed user, oblivious to anything but obtaining more of his or her particular poison, who will stop at nothing to get it. To be sure, drugs and alcohol have chemical effects, and withdrawal from habitual use of those substances can elicit a raft of irritating physical sensations. But beyond that, science, and now the public, has embraced the notion that addicts suffer from a physiologically welldefined phenomenon –as Governor Dukakis put it, “a sickness” – even though repeated attempts to prove that addiction is a clear cut medical condition have been, at best, inconclusive. The addiction as disease idea has spread wildly, to encompass not only chemical dependency but overeating, undereating, shopping, and fornication. The “addiction” issue of Newsweek, for example, carried an unrelated story about the travails of Boston Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs, who was being sued for twelve million dollars by a woman who had long provided him with companionship on road trips. In explaining the liason, the married Boggs confessed that he was “addicted to sex” – to which his former mistress responded, “I guess what I thought was love was just a disease.” The pervasive and growing influence of the disease model of addiction has serious ramifications for American society. The more psychologists and attorneys dismiss forms of misbehaviour as uncontrollable compulsions, the less people are held accountable for their actions – even when they have harmed others. Often, the only penalty for gross, even criminal misconduct is undergoing counseling in a treatment centre. Creating a world of addictive diseases may mean creating a world in which anything is excusable, one that must inevitably slide into chaos. Stanely Peele, “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” Stanley Peele, The Sciences, © July/August 1989 This material has been copied under license from CANCOPY. Any resale or further copying of this material is strictly prohibited.
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MODR1760D SU14 LPA Worksheet Answers
Week 9B July 3
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WEEK 9B LPA WORKSHEET ANSWERS Paragraph 1
In the minds of most Americans, narcotics and alcohol are linked inextricably with addiction, and idea that conjures up images of the crazed user, oblivious to anything but obtaining more of his or her particular poison, who will stop at nothing to get it. To be sure, drugs and alcohol have chemical effects, and withdrawal from habitual use of those substances can elicit a raft of irritating physical sensations. But beyond that, science, and now the public, has embraced the notion that addicts suffer from a physiologically welldefined phenomenon –as Governor Dukakis [Who is this? Look up on Wikipedia] put it, “a sickness” – even though repeated attempts to prove that addiction is a clearcut medical condition have been, at best, inconclusive.[P1] The addiction as disease idea has spread wildly, to encompass not only chemical dependency but overeating, undereating, shopping, and fornication [What does this word mean? Look up in dictionary]. [P2]The “addiction” issue of Newsweek, for example, carried an unrelated story about the travails of Boston Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs, who was being sued for twelve million dollars by a woman who had long provided him with companionship on road trips. In explaining the liason, the married Boggs confessed that he was “addicted to sex” – to which his former mistress responded, “I guess what I thought was love was just a disease.” Paragraph 2
The pervasive and growing influence of the disease model of addiction has serious ramifications for American society. [P3] The more psychologists and attorneys dismiss forms of misbehaviour as uncontrollable compulsions, the less people are held accountable for their actions – even when they have harmed others. Often, the only penalty for gross, even criminal misconduct is undergoing counseling in a treatment centre. Creating a world of addictive diseases may mean creating a world in which anything is excusable, one that must inevitably slide into chaos. Stanely Peele, “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” Stanley Peele, The Sciences, © July/August 1989 This material has been copied under license from CANCOPY. Any resale or further copying of this material is strictly prohibited.
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MODR1760D SU14 LPA Worksheet Answers
Week 9B July 3
Step 1: We should not think of or consider addictions as diseases. [unstated conclusion] Step 2: Addiction Disease Sickness Forms of misbehaviour Disease model of addiction or addiction as disease idea Step 3: Is addiction a disease? Is addiction a form of misbehaviour? Are forms of misbehaviour diseases? Step 4: P1: Science, and now the public, has embraced the notion addicts suffer from a physiologically welldefined phenomenon – as Governor Dukakis put it, “a sickness”, even though repeated attempts to prove that addiction is a clearcut medical condition have been, at best, inconclusive. P2: The addiction as disease idea has spread wildly to encompass not only chemical dependency but overeating, undereating, shopping, and fornication. P3: The pervasive and growing influence of the disease model of addiction has serious ramifications for American society. C: We should not think of or consider addictions as diseases.
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