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Using persuasive rhetoric to address barriers to higher education

Considering your analysis of your audience, how do you plan on gaining their confidence and respect and touching their emotions, and what style choices will you make in order to do so?

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Lynn White Jr.'s argument on Christianity and ecological crisis

Roots of Our Ecological Crisis is an argumentative attempt to place blame for mankind's woes at the feet of several different factions.

~4 min read

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Luck, Will, and Blame: Rethinking Moral Responsibility

An analytical essay examining moral responsibility through compatibilism, free will, and moral luck, arguing that self-governed reasoning grounds blame better

Philosophy

~11 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,862 words

Musgrave's Critique of Van Fraassen's Constructive Empiricism

An analysis of Musgrave's essay critiquing van Fraassen's constructive empiricism, examining scientific realism, empirical adequacy, and the role of explanation.

Philosophy

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Toulmin Argument Analysis: Asian-American Ethnic Identity

A Toulmin argument analysis of Yahlin Chang's "Asian Identity Crisis," examining claims, warrants, rebuttals, and qualifiers around ethnic identity and assimilation.

Social Issues

~4 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,640 words

Credibility Under Scrutiny: Evaluating Websites as Sources

A model evaluative essay analyzing MedlinePlus for credibility, design, accuracy, and purpose—demonstrating how to apply the CRAAP framework to assess website

Education

~14 min read

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Richard Stith's argument against valuing human life absolutely

Humans are the most evolved creatures on earth when considering our capacity to think and our capacity to act as a result of our thinking. The human society today regards the human life as being the most praised thing ever to have existed.

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522 words

Essay structure: thesis statements, supporting paragraphs, and conclusions

The most important thing about the first paragraph is that it must contain a clear thesis statement. The thesis statement is the point that you are proving in the rest of the essay.

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Robert Kagan's argument on American and European strategic differences

Robert Kagan's 2002 article entitled "Power and Weakness" which appeared in the journal Policy Review is a fine example of an argument that takes advantage of its assumptions without discussing them.

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Ellen Winner's argument about parental influence on child development

The argument analysis attached article, Ellen Winner. As, instructions I sources -text citations/quotations.

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