Outline a Persuasive Proposal ASSIGNMENT:
In your personal, academic, and professional life, you will encounter countless situations where you will need to convince family members, friends, coworkers, committees, and other audiences to adopt new policies, consider different processes and perspectives, or make changes that will impact others. Being able to convince others will allow you to have a voice in your own life and impact the lives of others. In order to do this, you will need to develop strategies for persuasion. You will be more convincing if you are able to provide credible evidence to support your point. Having valid and credible evidence to support your arguments plays a large role in how persuasive you are, how others receive your information, and the credibility you can build for yourself.Following the directions below, choose an argumentative topic to research. This will be your topic throughout the rest of this course, so the activities required for this assignment will provide the foundation for your future Touchstones. The topic for an argumentative research paper must be an arguable topic, meaning that it involves conflicting viewpoints. Additionally, it cannot be a topic that is already decided or agreed upon by most of society. You must state a clear position on the topic, and argue in favor of that position using logic and evidence. A good test of whether or not a position is an appropriate, arguable position is to ask yourself if a reasonable person would disagree. If not, the position is probably not an appropriately arguable position for this paper.
you will choose a scenario below and create a research question, a working thesis statement, and a detailed outline. This outline will be your guide as you write your argumentative research essay for Touchstone 3. As such, your topic should be current, appropriate for an academic context, and have a focus suitable for a 6-8 page (1500-2000-word) essay.
TOPIC
- Scenario 1: CommunityCommunity-focused problems are issues that affect the daily life of individuals. These individuals can be from the same neighborhood, a neighborhood across town, or the same city. Have you ever wished the city would install more street lights, or put in a skating park, or do something about the persistent littering throughout the neighborhood? All of these are examples of community-focused problems.The goal of this scenario is to persuade a community group to fund the solution that you believe will address a particular problem and benefit the area. How will you persuade the community group to give you what you’re asking for?
