You\'re not writing a pro con paper PDF

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“You’re Not Writing A Pro/Con Paper”  Don’t care about pros and cons  You don’t need to research the topic to prove whether vaccines are good or bad or capital punishment is effective or that abortion is legal or not.  That’s not your job  Your job is to find groups of sources on different sides of the debate and analyze how they *argue*, where they *agree* and *disagree* with each other. What sorts of *arguments* do they make? What do they *base* those arguments on? Where are they coming from?  You don’t need to do “research” with numbers. You need to study people and their opinions.  This task is both easier and harder than a “research” paper where you’re looking at numbers.  Think of your working titles as, “ISSUE X: An Analysis of the Debate.”...