Organizing for a
synthesis paper
Choose a position:
Yes we
should restructure Choose 3 problems, solutions, & reasons why
What
problems are presented?
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What
solutions exist?
(Evidence
that leads you to this)
What
might complicate the solution? (source)
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Why
is this important?
(What
will the solution create, foster, develop, preserve?)
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Problem: 3.8 billion dollars is being
lost in revenue due to mail volume decreasing
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Increase mail volume by expanding
services technologically
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Need to expand
through e-services (source A)
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Expand does not
destroy the post office’s identity, an image we are reminded of in a photo of
one of the last individual post office’s (source G) but it does add to it
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We have to
preserve the U.S.
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Foster economy
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Or
No
– we shouldn’t restructure the post office Explain 3 reasons, justifications,
& why
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What
exists that we want to preserve?
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What
solutions exist?
(Evidence
that leads you to this)
What
might complicate the solution? (source)
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Why
is this important?
(What
will the solution create, foster, develop, preserve?)
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Preserve: the symbol of the U.S. post
office – it represents progress – don’t change it
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Cullen (Source
F) argues we need to keep the “handwritten letter”
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It gives the
organization more value, more important than speed and progress
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It is tradition
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