Developing Your Argument 11/24/15 (Was in drafts and not published.)

1.) What are you trying to change? (position)
2.) To whom are you writing? (audience)
3.) How do you appeal to their beliefs, values, etc? (pathos)
4.) Why should your audience believe you-who are you, and how can you best represent your persona as a writer? (ethos)
5.) What are at least 2 reasons the change should be made?
6.) Whats a good point that the other side makes about the issue? (concession - ethos)
7.) How would you answer that point? (rebuttal - ethos, logos, pathos)
8.) Is there another good point that can be made for the opposition? (concession - ethos)
9.) How would you answer that point? (rebuttal - ethos, logos, pathos)
10.) Who will benefit from this change- you? the audience? society? a well-deserving group?

1.)I am trying to change or suggest a change in the school curriculum for incorporating meditation in schools as a stress management and focus technique.

2.)The paper is being written to a general audience mostly adults whom may have children and/or educators of those children to make a change in school curriculum for incorporating stress and emotional response management into our education.

3.)The way in which I am appealing to the values of readers is by making the connections between the larger world in which they are incorporated in and the preparation we receive in our education for our roles in society and our life decisions.

4.)I use statistical information and studies done on the topic of incorporating meditation in schools to provide information to back up the logic made in my suggestion of adding the teaching of meditation in schools.

5.)The change should be made because it may have a positive impact in the preparation of future generations to create a better environment for at least in starting the local areas in which this curriculum is employed but also in essence the communities they may move into and over time help create a better world environment.

6.)One of the arguments against teaching meditation is school is the fear of religion in disguise.

7.)The religion in disguise argument is countered by a rebuttal argument about how the specific components of the process of meditation incorporates natural habits that are not exclusive to a religion and how one does not need to be indoctrinated or taught a specific religion or set of beliefs to learn and benefit from the process.

8.)Another being that kids may lose their sense of right and wrong by developing non-judgmental awareness.

9.)The counter arguments I provide are how developing non-judgmental awareness would actually enhance the child’s ability to discern between right and wrong by not making snap judgments base on false premises or preconceived notions.

10.)Students would benefit from this change. The world as a whole overtime because of the influences of the better environments we potentially create.