Chapter 12. Developing Your Arguement.

Once you have a thesis statement you need to find reasons to support the statement. In most essays you must come up with several reasons for your topic and side chosen. Then once you have several reasons you must find support to back up those reasons. Decide how you can appeal to the audience. You can appeal to authority, emotion, principles, values, beliefs, character, and logic. When you know who your writing to and how they might see a position then you can write toward what they might accept better. For example many people no days spend the day hanging out with friends while texting and calling other friends instead of talking to the people tight in front of them. Many people over the age of 40 do not agree with that. Any teenager though might say they don’t do that when with their friends but in reality it happens every day. You can appeal to emotions very easily. If you know your audiences are cat lovers write a paper about animal cruelty. This will grab their attention and hang on to it the entire way through.