Department of Education Lesson 2: Writing a Position Paper and Defending a Stance on an

Region X Issue
Mail
Division of Bukidnon What’s More.
Survey
LIBONA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Activity 1. Your Claim, Defend It!.
Crossing, Libona, Bukidnon The table below lists the current prevalent issues that we are facing today.
Practice citing your claim or stand on each issue. Then, defend your stand
by citing supporting evidence the best way you can
Issue Your Claim/Stand Supporting Evidence Online
Survey
Has COVID-
QUARTER 4 19 pandemic Lesson 2: CONDUCTING A SURVEY
changed the
Name:__________________________________________________ world for its “It’s Your Turn”
best or for its Prompts: A. Give five of your family’s favorite home quarantine
worst? activities. Rank them according to the frequency of engaging in it.
Section: ______________________________________
Number them 1,2,3,4,5.
MODULE 4: WRITING PROPER PAPER

Lesson 1: The Nature of Position Paper or Manifesto Is online

learning
1
effective or
not?
2

Do you think 3
our
government’s
economy can 4
What’s More sustain our
Activity 2. Briefly answer the following questions: country’s
5
1. What does the issue talk about? What is the writer’s stand needs during
about the issue? these
uncertain
times of
Lesson 3: GATHERING INFORMATION FROM SURVEYS
pandemic?
What I Have Learned

MODULE 5: WRITING REPORT SURVEY/

GETTING DEEPER!
FIELD REPORT/LABORATORY/
2. What are the writer’s arguments? Mention and analyze each Lesson:
SCIENTIFIC TECHNICAL REPORT
argument.
Lesson 1: The Reports, Survey Questionnaire And Of Administering
It

Activity 1.1 “Let’s Complete It”

Directions: As you analyze the information, complete the given table
with what you think of the advantages and disadvantages of each What I want to say about the Lesson:
3. What evidences are cited to support his claim? method.
METHOD ADVANTAGE DISADVANTAGE
Face-to-
Face
Structured
Interview

What I found out:

4. How is the conclusion stated? Telephone
Survey

Paper-
and-pencil
Survey
PORTFOLIO [ANSWER ON SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER] Module 5 – Lesson 4 Module 5- Lesson 6

Module 4 - Lesson 1 Activity 4.1. Sample B.

Prompts: Analyze the situations below and plot the data using the
What I can Do non-verbal text (graphs) Survey of Academic and General Reading in English
Interview at least 3 residents in your barangay. Ask them to
enumerate 3 issues prevailing nowadays which can be effectively On 8th February 1999, a survey was conducted among 16
addressed through a position paper. For each issue, analyze their overseas postgraduate students at the University of England. The
arguments and their proposed solutions. Use the template below. purpose of the survey was to discover the reading habits in English of
the students.
Person
The survey was conducted by means of a questionnaire given to
Interviewed
• address the students to complete. The first part of the questionnaire dealt with
• no. of years His/her Proposed the type of reading and its frequency. The second section was
Issue
living in that Argument Solution concerned with newspapers: the type of items read and those that
area were read first.
• name is
From the table of data, the most significant items are as follows.
optional
In the first section 81% of the students regularly read academic books"
while 44% regularly read academic journals. Nothing else is read
regularly or often by 40% or more of the students. The following
comments can be made about the reading of newspapers, magazines
and fiction. 75% sometimes read regional or local newspapers, 69%
sometimes read books of fiction, 62% sometimes read general
magazines, and 56% sometimes read national daily newspapers. On
the other hand, 37% never read Sunday newspapers and 31% never
read fiction.
In the second section, not surprisingly, 100% read news about
their own country in newspapers and 56% read this first. 94% read
international news, 25% read this first. 81% read about Britain and
Module 4 - Lesson 2 look at radio and TV information. The only other item that is usually
Write My Thoughts! Choose one issue from Activity 1. Expound read by more than 50% of the students is current affairs (read by 56%).
your stand If any conclusions may be drawn from the data, they are,
and give reasons using the supporting evidence you have provided. perhaps, as follows. Overseas students presumably have little time for
Then, develop these facts into a coherent position paper, following general reading: most of their reading time is spent on books and
the outline given in the previous page. Let’s start!
journals on their own subject.
Outside their studies, apart from reading news about their own
country, international news, and news about Britain, they probably
spend most time watching TV and listening to the radio.
/from Academic Writing Course by R.R. Jordan/

Module 5 - Lesson 5

I. , research in the internet the COVID-19 CASE survey report

(Latest) in your region and write a summary out of it.