English Question
Instructions:
After you have identified your issue, written your linked questions, and spent some time researching and thinking about your topic during the Exploratory Essay stage, you need to start planning your Researched Argument paper. Your argument plan will include:
- A position statement
- Rhetorical context analysis
- Audience analysis
- A claim
- A few reasons supporting the claim
- optional other elements* see below
Rhetorical Context: Explain the issue and the context of the issue. You may want to identify for whom this issue is important and what the various sides of the issue are.
Audience Analysis: Determine who the target audience for your argument is. Your target audience is your choice, so you should spend some time thinking about who they are and how you can reach them. You should think about the unstated assumptions, beliefs, attitudes and values of this audience.
