Party City's Argument Analysis

In this chapter, Lunsford details the planning and drafting process for a writer to organize their ideas with either a formal outline or a rough plan. Lunsford reminds writers to be flexible during the drafting process and not to think twice about changing elements of the essay at this point in the process. Lunsford goes on to explain the qualities academic paragraphs must have these include unity, development and coherence. To obtain unity within a paragraph all sentences should relate to the topic sentence of the paragraph. When developing a paragraph it is important to switch between general and specific ideas in the paragraph, while supporting those ideas with details, evidence and examples as required. Ensuring a paragraph is coherent is crucial when developing an academic paragraph. Because readers need to be able to follow a writers ideas easily, Lunsford gives her readers a method to follow to achieve this goal. This method includes using the general to specific ideas, repetition, parallel structures, and using transition words. The author notes that this method should also be used to link paragraphs

Today, Americans are worried about the effects plastic bag impact the environment. In the dispute between the Gulftowne Gazette Committe and gift shop owner Theo Jones, the Gulftowne Ordinance Committee provides a stronger argument for it point that plastic bags litter our landscape and threatening surrounding wildlife. As the Gulftowne Ordinance Committee points out cities across the country and globe have banned the use of plastic bag.

In my opinion, "Going green for Gatesburg" is a really great idea to keep the county clean.

The Little Seagull Handbook, by Richard Bullock, Michal Brody, and Francine Weinberg, is a book full of advice on the writing process. The book is divided up into sections which help’s students to easily find the topic they are searching for. Section W-4e on opening and closing paragraphs was used to improve my conclusions. I do not have a lot of trouble with conclusions, but I feel that mine do not fit as smoothly into my essays as they should. Therefore I decided that I needed to improve my conclusions. The section lists out several tactics to form a conclusion, such as, summarizing the essay, discussing implication of the essay’s argument, and giving a call to some kind of action. Reading the section has given me several ideas for how to end an essay. Now I can either plan which tactic to use ahead of time or

| The effect of this sentence is to connect the essay back to the first paragraph.

Furthermore, I think the strength of my essay was my thesis and supporting ideas of the

“We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.” In his letter to Senator Holmes, Thomas Jefferson discusses how the original 1780s compromise on the issue of slavery has led to the current continued debate of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. He expresses his fear that attempting to end slavery and its spread throughout the country, though the proper course, will lead to the destruction of the nation. Continued debate and antagonism over this issue led ultimately to the violence in Kansas and the start of the Civil War forty years later. When the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1854, settlers from the North and South rushed to the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska to secure them as either free or slave states.

My strengths in this essay, I believe, are in not just analyzing the information that Solnit provides, but in also analyzing the effect that this information has on the readers. My final body paragraph details both the logical and the emotional responses that Solnit brings up in her audience. Additionally, I feel that I was successful in tying all of the analysis that I supply back to Solnit’s purpose in writing the essay. It is easy to look at the context and the substance of an essay, but to relate it all back to the author’s goal in writing it is what shows that you have a fuller understanding of the work.

My topic is to talk about why the combination of adventure and romance genres is necessary to attract adult female readers. I made a mistake in my first draft, since I was trying to analyze four different genres in five pages. Clearly, I did not analyze any one of them well because I just introduced the genre convention without precisely evidence as a back up. In my second draft, another problem appeared. I analyzed two genres separately, which was not helpful to demonstrate my overall thesis. So in my final draft, I analyze three main figures from the perspectives of the romance plot and the adventure plot. I claim that the romance and adventure are inseparable and explain specifically why the combination of these two genres is the key to attract female adult readers using the textual evidences of the three main figures. Another big problem is that, I did not integrate quotations and evidences properly. I used to summarize the plot too much without explaining why these plots can support my claim. For example, in general, I should let my readers have a clear idea to concentrate in the first paragraph. However, in my first draft, I summarized the story in six sentences and weakened the presence of topic sentence. So in my final draft, I summarize The Princess Bride briefly in two sentences, so the reader can concentrate on my topic more. For another example, when

The Quinnipiac University poll was done during early September to test the waters before the first presidential debate between Clinton and Trump. The sample size was roughly 960, supposedly voters from across the nation with a margin of error of +- 3.2 which isn’t horrible. The numbers look fine and because it was a nationwide poll, the possibility of getting a fair and accurate cross section of views is fairly high, that being said there are a few issues with this poll that cause me to be concerned with the accuracy of this poll for many reasons.

The strengths I feel in my editorial essay is using logos as a strategy to persuade my audience why we should give food to those who need it. In the first two paragraphs, I started out with statistics. In the first paragraph, “165 billion pounds of food is wasted every year” in the United States is what the first sentence was. That was my hook.

Have you ever been so desperate that you were willing to give up? Alfred is seventeen year old boy who dropped out from high school. Alfred works at a grocery store and hangs out with street kids. Alfred begins to realize that he needs to do something he decided that he will be a Contender. He goes to Donatelli's gym to start his training. Donatelli is a very important person to Alfred throughout the story. He also gets good advice from him and learns a good important lesson.

1. One of the main arguments of the debate was situated against inventive and the ways it presented itself in Hillary Clinton’s campaign. For example the proposition said that Clinton’s background was a good indicator of her future decisions and that inventive is based off of situated. The opposition rebuttal included the argument that situated is only a platform and the way she speaks now and the narrative that is created is more important is current predicament of the race. The also debated on party allegiance and the factors that play into that. The proposition argued that depending on your political party, you bring different situated ethos while the opposition debated that especially in this election, using examples of the split Republican

Advertisements are very well put together and build of ideas that they want you to believe. One personal example of how advertising got to me was when I went Las Vegas, specifically Circus Circus. The advertisement I saw on television formed my “symbolic complex” of this place affecting my experience and making me lose my sovereignty. I then added how this was similar to Percy’s example on the Grand Canyon and how this “symbolic complex” affects us and we are dependent on it. I then ended and briefly talked about about one last thing that Percy states that we can still gain our sovereignty, by leaving these preconceived ideas. In this essay I had a good amount of struggle than the previous ones due to the fact I had to write without a specific assigned topic. During the process of my essay I went to the Writing Center twice. Which without a doubt had to do, as shown on my last essay which by doing so I got a B+, unlike my previous essay which I got a D and a F. I went and they helped me greatly with my grammar. Although, I believe my grammar is improving I do feel as my essay might have quite some more grammar errors for the last part of my essay did not get to be fully

As tax-payers, us residents need to remind ourselfs of the consequences of ignoring issues at hand when facing contradictory opinion. Both sides of the argument contribute with valid information about the problem, personally i feel that if each side decide to read the oposite grievance, with an empathic frame of mind they would probably be less dissatisfied with the outcome and have a more solid ground in which to take their stances. For exemple; A dog owner would cite that 37% of Americans who own's dogs ofeten look for a dog park when choosing where to live, or as an "opposing voice" i may say that fencing alone may cause $70,000.