Topics for persuasive essay

1. Adoption
2. Education
3. School Violence

Adoption might be a good topic to write about because adoption is an act of kindness and I think that acts of kindness are good for people and everyone in the world. It is good because it shows people how they are able to help others in time of need.

Education might be a good topic to write about because you need education to get into colleges and just to get anywhere in the world. Education is important because when you are in school you learn about new things around you and what is going on in the world. So education is important because it helps you through your life and you are always learning new things.

School Violence might also be another good topic to write about because I am not a fan of violence and I really think that it shows immaturity. You shouldn't be involved in school violence because then you might get hurt or the other victim might get hurt and that might just lead to their friends coming to hurt you or your friends going to hurt them. So school violence is not good and you shouldn't be involved with it.

Driving to the Funeral-questions

1. Some logical statistics in this reading is that they give proof that younger people who drive get in more accidents. Here is a quotes "The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has found that neophyte drivers of 17 have about a third as many accidents as their counterparts only a year younger." Here is another quote "any reasonable person would respond that a 13-year-old is too young. But statistics suggest that that’s true of 16-year-olds as well." Some facts that she uses in the reading is "in Massachusetts alone, one third of 16-year-old drivers have been involved in serious accidents."
2. A rhetorical question that she used in the reading is "If someone told you that there was one behavior most likely to lead to the premature death of your kid, wouldn’t you do something about that?" An emotion that she uses in this reading is "It’s become a sad rite of passage in many American communities, the services held for teenagers killed in auto accidents before they’ve even scored a tassel to hang from the rearview mirror."
3. Credibility in this reading is that she says an opinion and then she backs it up with facts and statistics. How she might deal with threat to credibility is she just doesn't deal with it.
4. I thought that she wasn't that persuasive because she was to straight forward and i really don't think that she did a good job. I thought that if she talked to teenagers then it might have been better.

Editorial - A pause on the Tracks

In this article I found some logical, emotional, and credibility. For logical I found statistics and deductive reasoning. Some of those statistics is that the average streetcar is operating every 15 minutes. The Seattle Department of Transportation is hoping to buy more streetcars by July 15th. These streetcars cost more than buses but streetcars last two and a half years longer. Streetcars cost $3 million and buses cost $800,000. For deductive reasoning I found that the more streetcars then the fewer buses. For emotional I found a rhetorical question that said let’s see if enough people ride the streetcar, and if its value is better than a bus? For credibility I found I found expert knowledge. That expert knowledge is that if you use the repair barn for 10 cars instead of three the cost will drop and also that streetcars should be a success by this summer. Another expert knowledge is that streetcar expansion is better than bus expansion because it is less politically connected. I found out that logical is basically just causes and effects, statements, and statistics. Emotional is negative emotion, positive emotions, metaphors, and rhetorical question. Also credibility is basically something the article says and then gives examples of why you should keep reading.