Make up any topic you like for this essay. Please be sure to open the pdf to understand the directions. Use my mom (her name is may) as the family member. Let me know if you need more info. Feel free to make up anything. The teacher does not know me personally so she will believe anything you say. Thank you Persuasive Argument Paper 70 Points We often use persuasion in our everyday lives, but sometimes we are not consciously aware of the tactics that we are using to try and persuade someone, or what tactics are readily available to us! When we engage in persuasion, we are trying to change people’s attitudes or behaviors about that particular thing. For this paper, I want you to think of someone in your life who you would like to persuade to do something or change their attitude about a particular subject. It could be a family member, friend, colleague, etc. It should be someone that you know relatively well, and it should be a real-life situation. Some examples could be: you want to change a family members mind when it comes to their political party affiliation, you’d like to persuade your aunt to co-sign a car for you, you’d like to convince your parents to allow you to stay out later, etc. The format of this paper should be 3-4 pages, times new roman font, 12 point font, one inch margins. You should also have a title for your paper. Finally, you should use stock issues format to complete this paper. An explanation of stock issues is further down in this handout. You should write this paper as if you were addressing the intended person directly. You will also need to cite four sources throughout your paper that back up your argument. You should include an introduction, body (about two paragraphs per each component of stock issues), and a conclusion. You should also incorporate persuasive strategies such as Cognitive Dissonance and the Elaboration Likelihood Model, and you should appeal to all three rhetorical proofs (ethos, pathos, & logos). Stock Issues I. Introduction a. Attention Getter b. Reason to Listen c. Speaker Credibility d. Thesis Statement e. Preview your Main Points II. Body a. Establish the problem, the harms, or the significance to change. Here you should identify the problem for your target audience. This is also where you should identify what you want your audience to do/ think. Here are some prompts to guide you to accomplish this: • Make the topic personal or relevant to the audience. • Please Listen to me! • Why is there a need to listen to you? Why is there a need to change? • What is the issue? Describe the problem with details, examples, citations. • Why is this issue significant? Something must be done! TRANSITION b. Main Point 2: Causes or Barriers Here you should address what you believe your audiences counter arguments might be to your proposal, or why they might not want to do what you are asking them. You should address these reasons in advance and have counter arguments for them. Here are some prompts to help you accomplish this: • Explain the reasons we are dealing with your topic. • Why is this still a problem? Why hasn’t it been solved already? • Who is responsible for this problem? TRANSITION c. Main Point 3: Solution Propose a plan of action for your audience • • • • • • • III. Explain: ‘this is what should be done.’ Be sure that your solution has an action step that the class can do on their own. Provide the class with detailed info so we can actually help in solving your problem. Make it easy for us to want to get involved or educated. What exactly do you want us to do, think, be, or say to resolve your problem? What are the details of your proposed solution? What are the potential costs to your solution? Paint a very clear and vivid picture for us. Conclusion a. Restate your thesis statement b. Review your main points c. Remind audience what you are asking them to do and why they should do it Purchase answer to see full attachment Explanation & Answer: 3 pages Tags: speaker credibility Reason to Listen fresh surroundings adventure spirit financial constraints User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following our company’shonor code & terms of service.

MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

Guidelines for referring to the works of others in your text using MLA style are covered throughout the MLA Handbook and in chapter 7 of the MLA Style Manual. Both books provide extensive examples, so it’s a good idea to consult them if you want to become even more familiar with MLA guidelines or if you have a particular reference question.

BASIC IN-TEXT CITATION RULES

In MLA Style, referring to the works of others in your text is done using parenthetical citations. This method involves providing relevant source information in parentheses whenever a sentence uses a quotation or paraphrase. Usually, the simplest way to do this is to put all of the source information in parentheses at the end of the sentence (i.e., just before the period). However, as the examples below will illustrate, there are situations where it makes sense to put the parenthetical elsewhere in the sentence, or even to leave information out.

General Guidelines

• The source information required in a parenthetical citation depends (1) upon the source medium (e.g. print, web, DVD) and (2) upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited page.
• Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry on the Works Cited page.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS: AUTHOR-PAGE STYLE

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author’s last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author’s name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information:

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. Oxford UP, 1967.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS FOR PRINT SOURCES WITH KNOWN AUTHOR

For print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as “symbol-using animals” (3).

Human beings have been described as “symbol-using animals” (Burke 3).

These examples must correspond to an entry that begins with Burke, which will be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of an entry on the Works Cited page:

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. University of California Press, 1966.