Persuasive Essay Summary

My thesis statement is, adopting a pet is better than buying one from a pet store. My arguments are that it is better for the dog and other dogs to come. Buying a dog doesn't mean that it will be a better dog than one at a shelter. It ends up being cheaper to adopt than to buy. You can pick from a wider variety at a shelter than at a pet store.

Morgan Chiles

Research, Research, Research

American Humain Association. "Pet Adoption: Why Adopting Is More Humane than Buying." American Humane Association. Web. 24 Oct. 2011. <http://www.americanhumane.org/animals/adoption-pet-care/buying-vs-adopting.html>.

ASPCA. “Pet Statistics.” ASPCA. Web. 24 Oct. 2011. http://www.aspca.org/about-us/faq/pet-statistics.aspx

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Style

One of the helpful tips I noticed is number 13, make sure the reader knows who is speaking. It does seem that it would be one of the main focuses but I would admit I dont normaily focus on that. It seems like it would come natural to my writing but when I think about it I dont think I make it very clear. I would have to disagree with number 11, do not explain too much. My idea is that I would rather my reader read something that they already know or understand rather than getting lost becasue I assumed they would understand.

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Effective Argument

After reading Letter from Birmingham Dr. King is addressing a form of government, who has addressed his civil rights movement demonstrations. The tone he is using seems to be a stern and almost angry. All of this combined is effective but what I thought was most effective was that fact that he starts off the letter by stating that he normally doesn’t respond to these types of complaints. So to me this makes a statement that they have obviously said something that Dr. King felt like he needed to address. I think I could use a lot of different examples from Dr. King's letter. He is one of the most influential speakers so anything I could take away from his letter can be useful.

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Logical Fallacies

Either-or - Either the United States creates more jobs or the unemployment rate will increase.

Oversimplification - Everyone would get a college education if tuition was free.

Rationalization - I wouldn't have been late for class if my alarm went off on time.



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Topic

I am choosing to write about why people should adopt pets.


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When Your Opinion Matters

When I was at practice a few years ago we were told our practice was to run for 40 minutes. So me and my team ran the whole 40 minutes and our coach wasn't there to tell us to stop. Some thought we should just keep running and others thought we could stop. I argued that we could stop because our 40 minutes were up we did what we were supposed to so we could stop. Everyone listened to me and we stopped. Worse opinion ever, we ended up getting in trouble for stopping. Looking back I realize we would have just been safer of we kept going.

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Muddiest Point

The muddiest point for me would be why we can’t argue a position. The example given was don’t argue abortion, death penalty etc. Is this just not allowed for this paper or does this apply to all persuasive papers?

I believe the easiest point for me would be that my topic has many choices, but not sure if my topic is correct for this paper.