Write a 500-750 word argumentative/persuasive essay using any approach as a method of development.

Include an outline in the same document file with your essay

Writing Approach

Knowing how to brainstorm is going to save you from writing a weak essay. Also, knowing how to support your claims with evidence from outside sources will further strengthen your essay.

For that reason, this assignment requires the use of two references (no internet sources). In addition, you will add a Works Cited page at the end of your essay. MLA format

Writing Assignment

Purpose: to persuade

Method of Development: your choice

For argumentative/persuasive topics, pick 1 from the list Using argumentation-persuasion, develop one of these topics into an essay:

1. Hiring or college admissions quotas

2. Giving birth control to teenagers

3. Prayer in the schools

4. Same-sex marriage

5. Reinstating the military draft

6. Penalties for plagiarism

7. Increasing the retirement age

8. Spouses sharing housework equally

9. Smoking in public places

10. Big-time sports in college

ASSIGNMENTS USING VISUALS Use the suggested visuals to help develop an argumentation-persuasion essay on one of these topics:

1. AIDS-prevention education and a decline in in AIDS cases (graphs)

2. The influences of ethnic cultures on American culture (photos)

3. Societally beneficial uses of public lands (graphs and photos)

4. Bicycle-riding campaigns and the quality of life in cities (photos)

5. The financial expectations of college and high school graduates (graphs)

Graphs are optional but will help tremendously