support worksheet

Worksheet on Support for Free Speech Analysis:
 
Please fill out this worksheet with regards to what you are writing for essay #1.
 
For one of the readings in your reading handouts (on free speech), take notes on how the author supports his or her claims. Then, further reflect on how you can better support your claims in your Free Speech essay. Compile more quotations to serve as support.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
Notes on how the author supports his or her claims in one of the essays in “Are Limits on Free Speech Ever Justified?” or “Is Hate Speech Free Speech?”
  Having analyzed the article above, how might you further support your claims in your free speech essay? Write your claim and how you would support it.
The author’s response in the essay “are limits on free speech ever justified” is well-thought and articulated. I choose to agree that the limits are justified when you are considering. I agree with the way the school dealt with the part time lecturer whose insensitive comments about black students caused pain and unrest.
  Additional quotes and examples to support your claims in your free speech essay:
Using a strong language against another individual is against the rules of an institution. This is also unprofessional and unacceptable. For example, attacking someone’s insecurity is just not right.

 
 
 
 
The “Golden Thread”
 
You thesis should make an assertion about a particular aspect of free speech, focusing on one of our readings. Topic sentences, often located at the beginning of body paragraphs, should also make assertions and not merely summarize. Topic sentences should connect back to your thesis argument. The first sentence of each paragraph should also transition from the previous paragraph, letting the reader know how she got from there to hear. Here is a sample thesis and topic sentences for a free speech analysis.
 
Thesis: In times of war, we need to be especially vigilant in guarding the right to express dissenting opinions, especially since those ideas can help us to improve our policies.
 
Topic sentence 1: Foner demonstrates that throughout American history, people have been persecuted for objecting to wars.
 
Topic 2: While today, dissenters are not being jailed or deported, the media has created an atmosphere in which dissent is equated with treason, producing a chilling effect on free speech.
Topic 3: Political speech has historically received special protection, even if it is deemed offensive by some (“Bethel” 585).
 
BELOW, WRITE IN REVISIONS BASED ON YOUR OWN FREE SPEECH ESSAY DRAFT (NOT THE EXAMPLE GIVEN ABOVE).
Revised thesis:
 Hate speech is not free speech in any environment.
 
 
 
Revised topic sentence 1:
Injurious words are categorized as hate speech.
 
 
Revised topic sentence 2:
 Hate speech cannot be termed as free speech.
 
 
 
Revised topic sentence 3:
Strong language matters in its application and setting as it can be free or hate speech.
 
 
Revised topic sentence 4:
 Hate speech is derogatory and not free speech.