Laura takes a position on raising the amount of minimum wage in America. She believes that it wouldn’t hurt anyone to try it and that people who make minimum wage, especially ones with a family deserve to make more money than they do. She includes information from the Daily Caller News Foundation by saying that Bernie Sanders is hopeful to raise the amount to $15 to “protect the least powerful members of our society from predation.” She includes efficient sources and protects her position.
1.What is the claim?
a.The main point the writer is trying to make is that the minimum wage in the United States should be raised.
b.Yes there is a clearly stated thesis, it is at the end of the first paragraph, the writer clearly says what their position is on the topic by saying “the minimum wage in this country should be raised.”
2. What support does the writer offer for the claim?
a. The reasons given to support the writer's claim is that certain people and companies have more control and power over others which really impacts where and who the money goes to and that people who are working minimum wage jobs especially who have a family deserve to make more money.
b. There are examples in the piece by having exact amounts of how much the minimum wage was and how much it has gone up before. In the piece the writer brings up how Bernie Sanders is hopeful to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour.
c.the reasons are plausible and sufficient, they are exact and include sufficient sources and people who said the examples.
3. How evenhandedly does the writer present the issues?
a.There is a counter argument about how people believe it is pointless to raise minimum wage but what is the hurt in trying.
b.The writer doesn’t have many counterarguments but they do respond to them reasonably, the writer should add in a few other counter arguments into their paper.
c.the writer does treat other arguments respectfully they say what is the hurt and doesn’t back talk what other people have to say about it.
d.their own arguments are appropriately qualified and incorporates their words in terms to not offend the other side of the position.
4.What authorities or sources of outside information does the author use?
a.each one is used by after incorporating the information puts the source in parenthesis so we can clearly tell where what the source is, also at the end of the paper cites all sources.
b.The sources seem very credible by using a Daily Caller News piece, Forbes.com and a research article.
c.the sources are recent
5.How does the writer address you as the reader?
a.the writer doesn’t seem to assume the reader knows too much about the subject, they start off the paper with saying how much the economy has changed and with the economy changing so does the minimum wage price.
b. the words the writer uses seem to include me, the writer does not say I and says words that seem to include me and want to draw me into keep reading.
c. I think the author and I both do have the same kind of beliefs because I also don’t see why it would hurt to raise the minimum wage amount I think it would be a good idea as well.
Annotations, Micah Nelson
Micah takes a position on cutting down the amount of energy we use in our daily lives. Because of fossil fuels and enormous amounts of energy usage and factories our air is getting polluted, people are getting sick and our land is deteriorating. in the paper it is stated that, “Our best weapon against global climate change is clean energy.”
1.What is the claim?
a.The main point the writer is trying to make is that we should cut back on the amount of energy we use in our daily lives.
b.there is a clearly stated thesis and it is in the first paragraph the writer lists economic issues then clearly states “all of these major complications could be avoided if we simply cut back on the amount of energy we use in our daily lives.”
2.What support does the writer offer for the claim?
a.the reasons given to support the claim is that there is many problems caused by the amount we use energy like air pollution, health problems, damage to precious land, environmental deterioration and water pollution.
b.there is evidence to support the claim, that being statistics that in 2014 the U.S. generated about 4,093 billion kb. of energy and about 67% was from fossil fuels which the gases from that makes the air polluted. There are statistics on how much people use water.
c.the reasons are plausible and sufficient
3. How evenhandedly does the writer present the issue?
a.not really any counterarguments
b.not really any counterarguments
c.treats other arguments respectively by adding in how beneficial it is to the world we live in to cut back on our energy usage
d.the writer’s own arguments are appropriately qualified, they add in lots of statistics and even pictures to really help make their position strong
4. What authorities or sources of outside information does the writer use?
a.after stating where the information was from the writer puts into parenthesis what source was used, and in the end of the paper cites all the sources they used.
b.the sources seem very credible, Association of Homebuilders, Energy and Climate Change, Energy Information Administration.
c.They are current
5. How does the writer address you as the reader?
a.the writer doesn’t really assume people know much, they give a lot of background information before stating their opinion.
b.the writer uses a lot of “I’s” and it kind of excludes me by using themself in their paper.
c.I think we share beliefs because i think it would be a great idea to cut down on energy usage and that we really should start treating our environment better.
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