What Is Advocacy: Here's Important
Major Essay #2 (Advocacy): Here’s What’s Important
TOPIC focused and appropriate in scope for the assignment’s length framed to allow for research-based advocacy. The essay must actively recommend a policy, action, or course of action and must explain the real-world implications or likely consequences of the actions you propose.
INTRODUCTION a “hook” that captures the audience’s attention. This might be an image, an anecdote, a story, a quote/epigraph, an irritation – something that orients your reader to why your proposal is important enough background information to orient your reader to your topic. a thesis that advocates: it should clearly identify some problem and compellingly propose some solution. A strong thesis will address the significance of the proposal you are advocating. …show more content…
demonstrate understanding of others’ arguments before moving to your own arguments and opinions. You will use rhetorical analyses of others’ arguments only as they help and support your own arguments. Stronger papers will use the sources to develop your own argument rather than simply summarizing the arguments of others. reveal and develop new evidence, evidence not mentioned by any of your rhetors, if you can. If this is not possible, make sure that you emphasize in your discussion of your rhetors’ arguments which evidence you see as most credible and as most supportive of your own argument. You should also address evidence put forth by your rhetors that contradicts your argument and explain this contradiction you that the strength of your argument is preserved. link the points you cover in your body paragraphs back to your main argument.
CONCLUSION re-state main points from essay as a
TOPIC focused and appropriate in scope for the assignment’s length framed to allow for research-based advocacy. The essay must actively recommend a policy, action, or course of action and must explain the real-world implications or likely consequences of the actions you propose.
INTRODUCTION a “hook” that captures the audience’s attention. This might be an image, an anecdote, a story, a quote/epigraph, an irritation – something that orients your reader to why your proposal is important enough background information to orient your reader to your topic. a thesis that advocates: it should clearly identify some problem and compellingly propose some solution. A strong thesis will address the significance of the proposal you are advocating. …show more content…
demonstrate understanding of others’ arguments before moving to your own arguments and opinions. You will use rhetorical analyses of others’ arguments only as they help and support your own arguments. Stronger papers will use the sources to develop your own argument rather than simply summarizing the arguments of others. reveal and develop new evidence, evidence not mentioned by any of your rhetors, if you can. If this is not possible, make sure that you emphasize in your discussion of your rhetors’ arguments which evidence you see as most credible and as most supportive of your own argument. You should also address evidence put forth by your rhetors that contradicts your argument and explain this contradiction you that the strength of your argument is preserved. link the points you cover in your body paragraphs back to your main argument.
CONCLUSION re-state main points from essay as a