Week 3 Classical Argument Outline

Classical Argument Outline

1. The introduction, which warms up the audience, establishes goodwill and rapport with the readers, and announces the general theme or thesis of the argument.

I will start by asking about lying to feel familiar with the audience; have you ever tell the lie? Or have you ever notice the person's lying?. Then I explain the lie detector that can distinguish the lie. And I will tell about recent tendency with lie detector that used by evidence in the court. And I think it's not proper for the evidence because it is not accurate. So it will be end with this sentence ; The lie detector is not accurate to use in the court as the evidence.

2. The narration, which summarizes relevant background material, provides any information the audience needs to know about the environment and circumstances that produce the argument, and set up the stakes-what’s at risk in this question. In academic writing, this often takes the form of a literature review.

I will summarize the research that I found about two kinds of lie detector-polygraph and FMRI. At first I will explain each of them; how they work or what kind of record need to distinguish? And then I will write about the differences between them. So through this part, audience will know the two kinds of lie detector's principles. 

3. The confirmation,which lays out in a logical order (usually strongest to weakest or most obvious to most subtle) the claims that support the thesis, providing evidence for each claim.

I will start by explaining the limits of the lie detector to prove this device is not accurate. According to my research, there are 3 limits for lie detector. I will explain each of them. And I also find the information about change the standard to accept evidence in the court. So I will use this information to explain the current situation and why I choose this topic.

4. The refutation and concession, which looks at opposing viewpoints to the writer’s claims, anticipating objections from the audience, and allowing as much of the opposing viewpoints as possible without weakening the thesis.

Some people can be argue that the lie detector is a useful device in the court. Because people usually cannot distinguish the other's lie easily. And also they think the lie detector is accurate because it distinguish lie through physiological phenomena that recorded in figure. They may argue the figure is more accurate than the person's guessing. 

And I will refute through my research about limits of the lie detector;In the research, there are information that tell the lie detector's record is just relative, not accurate

5. The summation, which provides a strong conclusion, amplifying the force of the argument,  and showing the readers that this solution is the best at meeting the circumstances.

I will close with a summary of my arguments, and tell the examples about the limits.

Week 3 Articulation

1) My argument

I want to argue that The lie detector is not accurate to use in the court as the evidence. According to the common notion, lie detector can distinguish the lie and the true. But as I research, it is not accurate. 

2) How I found my argument

Through research, I can know that there are two kinds of lie detector. And I also understand the two device's difference. And I find that lie detector is not accurate as the common notion. And I start to find some limit of the lie detector. In my research, there are 3 serious limits of lie detector. So my first argument is just 'Lie detector is not accurate'. But through this research , I give shape to my argument. And now, my argument is the  The lie detector is not accurate to use in the court as the evidence.

3) New research questions

I have several questions that need to be resolved.

• There are some people that lie detector is accurate and helpful in the court. So what is their reasons?
• Is there any real examples who have affected lie detector's incomplete in the court or life?
• Is there any information that can support my arguments except the information I already found?
• Why false memory created?

4) Connections to the Harvard Sampler 

I think my argument has a connection to the Harvard Sampler in 'medical detective'. In our life, lie detector is used as the device to detect lie in the investigation. So I think lie detector can be a topic about medial detectives.

FMRI

Source: fMRI lie detector's present and future.

http://terms.naver.com/entry.nhn?docId=1968069&cid=42406&categoryId=42406

 fMRI 거짓말 탐지기의 현재와 미래 (뇌과학 경계를 넘다, 2012.11.5, 바다출판사)

My Topic: 
The lie detector is not always accurate.

What I hope to learn from this source:
1. I already knew the fact that there is another type of lie detector except polygraph lie detector which is famous for public.
So I want to find the difference between the FMRI lie detector and polygraph lie detector.

2. I think FMRI is also not incomplete.
So I want to know FMRI's limit.


Notes:
I think this is really useful and fantastic research!!!!!
Because it has a lot of information that I needed. 
1. Through FMRI(Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging), we can distinguish the lie like the polygraph.
However there is difference. polygraph lie detector record the physical features like person's breathing rate, pulse or blood pressure. But FMRI is different. There are several ways to detect. First one is using BOLD(blood oxygenation level dependant). This way's point is measure the oxygen amount in the blood of brain. Second one is cognitive subtraction(인지적 뺄셈). This process compares the picture of brain that telling lie and telling truth.

2. limit1
FMRI of cognitive subtration is just relative. According to various study, there are some part that are vitalize in FMRI but have no relative with lie. We can't know exactly why the part is vitalized, because if the brain tend to keep the balance in the brain, also it is vitalized.

 

limit2 (I think it is for both polygraph and FMRI)

We can't remember all the thing exactly. There can be false memory. And Many lies are from this false memory unintentionally. So we cannot distinguish the true memory and false memory ourselves. Also there is no accuracy that the true memory is really true.

limit3 (It is also for both)

The way to measure is easy to interrupt from environment. The recent study found that interruption movement like moving the finger is let the credibility decrease about 33 percent. 

+ I accidently know the backgound of the making FMRI. 
Polygraph has limit that recorders have to skilled at Polygraph observation. It means it is hard to distinguish lie through polygraph for normal people.(I suppose that normal people cannot know how to read the polygraph)And i don't know it will be helpful for my essay, so I just record it.

+ I also find the information about change the standard to accept evidence in the court. Before the making the principle of the Dovert(도버트), the lie detector's result didn't accept in the court as the evidence. But After making that principle, the frequency of acceptance the result of lie detector as evidence increase. From the making the principle to 2003, 19 states in the United States of America accept the evidence in the court(Grubin and Madsen 2005).

Final Thoughts:
I think limit 2 is really useful, because  It is really serious limit for lie detector.
And I figure out adequate example to help understanding. If the spy repeat and remember lie, the lie can be true for the spy.

And I want to give shape to my argument because now I know the  information about change the standard to accept evidence in the court. So I want to change my argument to the 'The lie detector is not accurate to use in the court as the evidence'.