{"id":89,"date":"2018-05-09T12:32:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T16:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=89"},"modified":"2019-06-12T12:28:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T16:28:12","slug":"proving-an-argument","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/proving-an-argument\/","title":{"raw":"Proving\/Disproving an Argument","rendered":"Proving\/Disproving an Argument"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"textbox learning-objectives\">\r\n<h3 itemprop=\"educationalUse\">Proving or Disproving an Argument as a DHSS Assignment<\/h3>\r\nFeaturing work from <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/our-project\/#robyn\">Robyn Le Lacheur<\/a>'s exhibit\u00a0<span>\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/temporal-spatial-connections-migration-displacement-toronto-telegram\/index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Looking Back: Temporal and spatial connections of post-war migration and displacement through the eyes of the <em>Toronto Telegram<\/em><\/a><span>\u201d<\/span>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQDYoDn5BixUezs-KKe6wBIAog62H2oBmBqWT--_76OIuFamSXb\" width=\"169\" height=\"169\" class=\" alignright\" \/>Having students engage with scholarly material to understand the process of argument development is an expectation in higher education.\u00a0Using a DHSS approach, your students can understand and demonstrate how academics develop and prove their arguments by using digitized material to prove or disprove an academic argument and visually present their findings to a wider audience.\r\n<div class=\"textbox learning-objectives\">\r\n<div class=\"textbox examples\">\r\n<h3 itemprop=\"educationalUse\">Summary<\/h3>\r\n<strong>Description:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"\">The organization of digital materials to support or refute an argument put forth in a secondary source.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>Possible tools\/technologies:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"\">Wordpress<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Scalar<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Omeka<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Word<\/li>\r\n \t<li>PowerPoint<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>Elements of Process:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"\">Identify a corpus of materials<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Identify argument<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Identify a medium for presentation<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Sort materials as evidence for\/against argument<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Present materials<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>Size of assignment:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"\">Medium<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>Difficulty:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"\">Moderate<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/our-project\/#robyn\">Robyn Le Lacheur<\/a>'s exhibit:\u00a0<span>\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/temporal-spatial-connections-migration-displacement-toronto-telegram\/index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Looking Back: Temporal and spatial connections of post-war migration and displacement through the eyes of the <em>Toronto Telegram<\/em><\/a>,<span>\u201d\u00a0<\/span>she used photographs published by the <em>Toronto Telegram<\/em>\u00a0to explore <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/mapping-primary-sources\/\">patterns<\/a> of migration and settlement after World War Two. However, she also used a corpus of digitized materials to compare what she saw in these photographs to others' analysis of similar materials.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/digital.library.yorku.ca\/islandora\/object\/yul:1127857\/datastream\/JPG\/view.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/digital.library.yorku.ca\/islandora\/object\/yul:1127857\/datastream\/JPG\/view.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"154\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" \/><\/a> \"Woman reading The Evening Telegram,\" Toronto Telegram (07\/1940)[\/caption]\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">One of the comparisons she made was against Terrence Wright's article <span>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/1472586022000005053?journalCode=rvst20\">Moving Images: The Media Representation of Refugees<\/a>\"<\/span>\u00a0published in <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/rvst20\/current\"><em>Visual Studies<\/em><\/a> in\u00a0<\/span>2002. <a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/temporal-spatial-connections-migration-displacement-toronto-telegram\/image-representation-of-refugees-an-analysis-of-terence-wrights-article-moving-images-the-media\">Robyn reviewed <\/a><span> the article, highlighted Wright's findings, and then assessed whether his argument\u00a0held water in relation to the archive she was working with by tagging the photographs in her digital\u00a0archive that aligned with Wright's argument.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\"><span>While Robyn explored this argument in one page of a larger exhibit, your students could create a whole <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/online-exhibit\/\">exhibit<\/a> proving or disproving an argument found in an academic article using the digital\u00a0materials\u00a0explored\u00a0in class. Using Scalar, Wordpress, or another web publishing forum, have students demonstrate their understanding of an article and then showcase how and why they support, or contest, the scholars' conclusions based on digital materials they would showcase across multiple pages of their exhibit.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">This task can be done with any number of academic articles and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/planningselecting\/back-matter\/appendix\/\">digitized collections<\/a> (if your students are not digitizing materials themselves) and can invite creative ways for your students to think through, and present, an academic argument for something like an <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/online-exhibit\/\">exhibit<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"textbox learning-objectives\">\r\n<div class=\"textbox exercises\">\r\n<h3 itemprop=\"educationalUse\">Proving\/Disproving suggestions<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>In 1993 Peter Geller looked at the <a href=\"https:\/\/archivaria.ca\/index.php\/archivaria\/article\/view\/11941\/12899\">representation in HBC's <em>The Beaver<\/em> between 1920-1945<\/a>. Can your students showcase the \"particular meanings\" Geller identified when looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadashistory.ca\/archive\">digitized copies<\/a> of <em>The Beaver<\/em> after this time period?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Can your students use digitized poems from <a href=\"https:\/\/canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca\/index_poet.htm\" style=\"font-size: 1em\">Canadian poets<\/a>\u00a0using a tool like <a href=\"https:\/\/voyant-tools.org\/\">Voyant<\/a>, to support <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.lww.com\/psychosomaticmedicine\/Abstract\/2001\/07000\/Word_Use_in_the_Poetry_of_Suicidal_and_Nonsuicidal.1.aspx\">Shannon Wiltsey Stirman and James Pennebaker's argument<\/a> that suicidal poets are more apt to write about self than others?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>How does masculine identity interact with consumption in older advertisements, as Jonathan E. Schroeder and Detlev Zwick found in their 2007 article \"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/1025386042000212383\">Mirrors of Masculinity: Representation and Identity in Advertising Images<\/a>\"?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Can your students explore the \"regime of translation\" in their neighbourhoods by photographing and posting examples of translated signs on public streets, like <a href=\"http:\/\/epress-dev.lib.uts.edu.au\/journals\/index.php\/portal\/article\/download\/858\/1219\">Brett Neilson did with signs in Australia and Italy<\/a> in 2009?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Or can they replicate the work that Robert Gutsche and his colleagues did in <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/1470357216668692\">\"\u2018No Outlet\u2019: A critical visual analysis of neoliberal narratives in mediated geographies<\/a>\" (2017) to explore the process of \"geosemiotics\" in their own cities?<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n&nbsp;","rendered":"<div class=\"textbox learning-objectives\">\n<h3 itemprop=\"educationalUse\">Proving or Disproving an Argument as a DHSS Assignment<\/h3>\n<p>Featuring work from <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/our-project\/#robyn\">Robyn Le Lacheur<\/a>&#8216;s exhibit\u00a0<span>\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/temporal-spatial-connections-migration-displacement-toronto-telegram\/index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Looking Back: Temporal and spatial connections of post-war migration and displacement through the eyes of the <em>Toronto Telegram<\/em><\/a><span>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQDYoDn5BixUezs-KKe6wBIAog62H2oBmBqWT--_76OIuFamSXb\" width=\"169\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"image\" \/>Having students engage with scholarly material to understand the process of argument development is an expectation in higher education.\u00a0Using a DHSS approach, your students can understand and demonstrate how academics develop and prove their arguments by using digitized material to prove or disprove an academic argument and visually present their findings to a wider audience.<\/p>\n<div class=\"textbox learning-objectives\">\n<div class=\"textbox examples\">\n<h3 itemprop=\"educationalUse\">Summary<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"\">The organization of digital materials to support or refute an argument put forth in a secondary source.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Possible tools\/technologies:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"\">WordPress<\/li>\n<li>Scalar<\/li>\n<li>Omeka<\/li>\n<li>Word<\/li>\n<li>PowerPoint<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Elements of Process:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"\">Identify a corpus of materials<\/li>\n<li>Identify argument<\/li>\n<li>Identify a medium for presentation<\/li>\n<li>Sort materials as evidence for\/against argument<\/li>\n<li>Present materials<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Size of assignment:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"\">Medium<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Difficulty:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"\">Moderate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"no-indent\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/our-project\/#robyn\">Robyn Le Lacheur<\/a>&#8216;s exhibit:\u00a0<span>\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/temporal-spatial-connections-migration-displacement-toronto-telegram\/index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Looking Back: Temporal and spatial connections of post-war migration and displacement through the eyes of the <em>Toronto Telegram<\/em><\/a>,<span>\u201d\u00a0<\/span>she used photographs published by the <em>Toronto Telegram<\/em>\u00a0to explore <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/mapping-primary-sources\/\">patterns<\/a> of migration and settlement after World War Two. However, she also used a corpus of digitized materials to compare what she saw in these photographs to others&#8217; analysis of similar materials.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digital.library.yorku.ca\/islandora\/object\/yul:1127857\/datastream\/JPG\/view.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/digital.library.yorku.ca\/islandora\/object\/yul:1127857\/datastream\/JPG\/view.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"154\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Woman reading The Evening Telegram,&#8221; Toronto Telegram (07\/1940)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"no-indent\">One of the comparisons she made was against Terrence Wright&#8217;s article <span>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/1472586022000005053?journalCode=rvst20\">Moving Images: The Media Representation of Refugees<\/a>&#8220;<\/span>\u00a0published in <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/rvst20\/current\"><em>Visual Studies<\/em><\/a> in\u00a0<\/span>2002. <a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.library.yorku.ca\/temporal-spatial-connections-migration-displacement-toronto-telegram\/image-representation-of-refugees-an-analysis-of-terence-wrights-article-moving-images-the-media\">Robyn reviewed <\/a><span> the article, highlighted Wright&#8217;s findings, and then assessed whether his argument\u00a0held water in relation to the archive she was working with by tagging the photographs in her digital\u00a0archive that aligned with Wright&#8217;s argument.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"no-indent\"><span>While Robyn explored this argument in one page of a larger exhibit, your students could create a whole <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/online-exhibit\/\">exhibit<\/a> proving or disproving an argument found in an academic article using the digital\u00a0materials\u00a0explored\u00a0in class. Using Scalar, WordPress, or another web publishing forum, have students demonstrate their understanding of an article and then showcase how and why they support, or contest, the scholars&#8217; conclusions based on digital materials they would showcase across multiple pages of their exhibit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"no-indent\">This task can be done with any number of academic articles and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/planningselecting\/back-matter\/appendix\/\">digitized collections<\/a> (if your students are not digitizing materials themselves) and can invite creative ways for your students to think through, and present, an academic argument for something like an <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/online-exhibit\/\">exhibit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"textbox learning-objectives\">\n<div class=\"textbox exercises\">\n<h3 itemprop=\"educationalUse\">Proving\/Disproving suggestions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>In 1993 Peter Geller looked at the <a href=\"https:\/\/archivaria.ca\/index.php\/archivaria\/article\/view\/11941\/12899\">representation in HBC&#8217;s <em>The Beaver<\/em> between 1920-1945<\/a>. Can your students showcase the &#8220;particular meanings&#8221; Geller identified when looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadashistory.ca\/archive\">digitized copies<\/a> of <em>The Beaver<\/em> after this time period?<\/li>\n<li>Can your students use digitized poems from <a href=\"https:\/\/canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca\/index_poet.htm\" style=\"font-size: 1em\">Canadian poets<\/a>\u00a0using a tool like <a href=\"https:\/\/voyant-tools.org\/\">Voyant<\/a>, to support <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.lww.com\/psychosomaticmedicine\/Abstract\/2001\/07000\/Word_Use_in_the_Poetry_of_Suicidal_and_Nonsuicidal.1.aspx\">Shannon Wiltsey Stirman and James Pennebaker&#8217;s argument<\/a> that suicidal poets are more apt to write about self than others?<\/li>\n<li>How does masculine identity interact with consumption in older advertisements, as Jonathan E. 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