1. Gale Opposing Viewpoints database offers
divergent points of view on controversial
social, political, and economic issues.
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Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context
2. Gale Opposing Viewpoints
in Context
• Find pro/con sources on controversial topics
• Explore issues from a variety of perspectives
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5. • Organization of Opposing Viewpoints
Main Page
• Topics in Eight Category Areas
• Alphabetical List of Topic Categories
19. So what is a Viewpoints essay?
• Viewpoints essays are written or compiled by the staff at Gale
• They may be reprints of articles or reports
• Provide opposing viewpoints on controversial topics
Featured Viewpoints are chosen by the editors
Two Types of Viewpoints Essays
20. • Gale provides the Viewpoints to give a
balanced perspective to controversial topics
• Viewpoints essays argue about a topic from a
clear standpoint or side of the issue.
21. • Usually you'll find two viewpoints which
discuss the same issue, but arguing from two
different points of view.
• You can use one Viewpoint essay to provide
support for one side of the argument
22. • Use a counterpoint Viewpoint essay for ideas
on opposing arguments.
• Use a counterpoint Viewpoint essay for ideas
on opposing arguments.
Gale Opposing viewpoints offers divergent points of view on controversial topics. Social, political and economic issues as we see here.
The GOV portal features browsable issues, as well as sources to explore current issues from a variety of perspectives
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We will take a look at the Opposing viewpoints main page, an alphabetical listing of issues, and the eight issues areas of opposing viewpoints
The main portal page links to issues, news and video
The navigation buttons are at the top which will take you to issues as well as help resources
There are 3 issues areas. These include business, health, debate topics, society, energy /environmentalism, law science ware ------ each issue is a heading followed by a few specific issues
An alphabetical listing of issues is reached through Browse Issues at the top. Click the Browse Issues button and this will take you to a listing of all issues
We take a look at choosing an issue. We look at the layout of the topic overview pages, and source types in opposing viewpoints
So what we’ll do is start out by choosing an issue or one of the associated issues. I am going to choose emergy and environmentalism for this example Clicking on View all will then take me to a complete listing
Of issues. I will choose Global warming as the issue I want to explore
This brings me to a Topic Overview page. The topic overview page gives you a topic overview, we see at the top under the topic. Sources are underneath on the left. You will notice source links to the right in a box. Let’s look a bit at what types of sources Gale Opposing viewpoints offers
There are several different types of sources available in the database. See the list to the right. Here there are 12 source types listed for this issue.
Some of the source types here
We will take a look at viewpoints more in depth and how this is unique to gale opposing viewpoints
What is a viewpoint essay? Viewpoints essays are written or compiled by staff at Gale. Sometimes they are reprints. They provide opposing viewpoints on controversial topics.
Let’s look at what are called featured viewpoints. Viewpoints are at the top of the source links. Featured Viewpoints are distinguished from viewpoints in that they are specifically chosen by the editors as representative sources for this topic. Here, we’ll choose one of the featured viewpoints. By clicking on this, this will take me into the specific viewpoints
The Featured Viewpoint page. We see the title at the top. The author’s name is underneath. The authors are experts or authorities on the topic discussed.
On the right there is a table of contents that will take you through different parts of the document.
So we can save this source through downloading, and also emailing and printing, as well see in the links under Tools. I will show you how to email a source. This is a quick way to save articles and sources you want to use for your paper.
I click on email. When this is clicked a form appears where you will in your email address.