topic proposal

The topic for my proposal is to get more healthier places to eat on campus. I think a good solution is to add more places on campus that provide a healthier choice of food like fresh fruits and vegetables, good protein and whole grains. The problem with this is the cost. If there is to be healthier food on campus the more the food will cost on campuses. Students would have to pay more money to be able to get this. In some surveys freshman students fear gaining the freshman 15, which goes to show we need healthier food.

Proposal Arguement Assignment

       I think the purpose of assignment 4 is to help us write a proposal to help us solve problems and using data and surveys to back up our ideas. It's a good way to use data in an argument. I think this assignment is pretty clear. I am confused about how to write this paper exactly. It says that we need a cover letter and an actual name of someone, I don't understand why we need that.

proposal arguement

1. A practical proposal propose an action to solve some kind of local or immediate problem. For example, if there is a problem with flooding in a certain are they would have to make action to stop it. A policy proposal is in which problems affecting the common good. For example, is to try to stop pollution so we can breathe healthier air.

2. The three main phases of a proposal argument is the description of the problem, proposed solution and justification for the proposed solution. When describing a problem you want to call attention to the reader to the problem. You want to describe the problem with anecdotes or statistics. The next phase is to explain a solution. It's good to stress the usefulness of your solution. You want to use step by step methods of finding a solution to win the audience over. You also need to show that the solution will solve the problem partially or wholly.

3. A. Marijuana should be legalized because it is a natural plant that does not affect your health compared to normal cigarettes.
   d. Violent video games should be illegal because kids play these games and it could make them think they can do it in real life and that is ok to do that to people.

Causal Arguement outline

Rebecca Scheper

Introduce the issue and state your claim:

·       Teen rebellion is increasing and it is very problematic because more kids are running away, killing themselves, getting into drugs. We need to realize how to stop this

·       With this issue, more kids are getting involved in things that are not good for them. One big thing is drugs and alcohol and breaking the law in general

·       My claim for this paper is about why teenagers rebel against their parents. What causes their motives to do that

Propose relative contributions of different cause of phenomenon or importance of different consequences:

·       One cause for this rebellion is teenagers want to be independent. They want to make their own decisions and not follow what their parents tell them to do. They want to do the complete opposite of what their parents want them to do

·       Another cause is they want to feel more grown up. They want to try to be more grown up so they experiment with different things. They want to do stuff that older people do.

·       Another cause is the teen rebelling wants to themselves from childhood dependency on parental approval for always being the good child.

Respond to objections to argument:

·       There aren’t any objections

Conclusion:

·       Rebellion is common among adolescents and teens. They do it out of independent and just wanting to grow up and because they are tired of being sheltered or known as the “good child”

·       This is problematic because its leading to suicide from drugs or alcohol and criminal activity too

 

Casual Arguement 3 Analysis

1. I think the purpose of this paper is to be able to express how we feel towards different topics and use facts and other information to support the idea your trying to show. Another purpose is to help us learn to persuade people about our opinions about certain topics with facts that make sense to really see our view on the topic. I think some statements that could be added to make it more clear is maybe giving an example of an article to show us the format and a good way to write it. Also to show more topics to choose from and which one's to not do. I am not confused about this paper. I understand everything in it.

Casual Arguement examples and questions

1. I believe that both writers do have enough evidence to support their claim. In the first article it talks about how poverty is also influenced by early childbirth or dropping out of school. They use good facts to back up there claim. They also use examples to help support it too. It also explains how getting married can get you out of poverty because you will most likely have a job when married and have kids that you can take care of. It also uses articles and places that say facts about how marriage can limit poverty. The next article is about roommate and how they are no longer truly random. He doesn't use much facts about how it is getting rid of randomness. He talks more about his own story about what happened. He does have support from other people like professor's. I think he does include enough support.

4. The one that I found more persuasive to me was the one about randomness. I like this one more because it was more interesting to me than the other one. I think it had enough evidence to support the main point and now that I read it, I totally agree with what he is saying in it. The other one is good to, but I feel like its more of just facts instead of personal stories which I don't find very interesting.

Casual Arguements

1. One type of casual argument is speculations about possible causes. If something bad happens like a robbery. Police officers have to find the causes. The second one is arguments for an unexpected or surprising cause. Sometimes people try to persuade readers to see the reasoning behind a surprising cause. The third one is predictions of consequences. This predicts the consequences of a current or planned actions or events.

2. One is Violent TV shows could have caused the death of people because it shows ways of killing people on the shows. Another one is, The magazine Covergirl has caused girls starve themselves because the models in the pictures are too skinny.

3. Induction is when we infer general conclusions based on a limited number of specific cases. One example is that Bob is a teacher and all of the teachers are friendly, that must mean that Bob is friendly too. Another example is Sam is a swimmer. All swimmers weigh more than 120 pounds, that means that Sam weighs more than 120 pounds.