Prompt: 317. Which Is More Important: Talent or Hard
Work?
Working Argumentative Thesis Sentence: Having talent can offer an
advantage that accelerates success and creativity often beyond the boundaries
for what sheer hard work can accomplish on its own.
Intended Audience: Teachers, career advisors, business executives,
artists, athletes and individuals interested in achieving peak performance.
Reasons for Interest in This Topic: This subject challenges the
focus on effort and persistence in attaining extraordinary results. Talent is
mandatory to achive unparralelled performance. Now more than ever, recruiters
are looking for the best of the best. It is essential to focus and work upon
innate skills to demonstrate uncontested unique skillsets.
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Now
that you have a working argumentative thesis sentence and have
identified an audience for your Argumentative Essay, you can start on
the task of organizing the main points of your essay in an outline. You
also have the opportunity in this stage to submit a refined thesis
sentence based on a greater understanding of your topic and the feedback
from the instructor.
First, we covered the structure of the The Aristotelian Argumentative Essay in week six, so here is a good place to review it. The Aristotelian Argumentative Essay has five parts:
Introduce your issue.
Present your case
Address the opposition.
Provide your proof.
Present your conclusion.
You
may have noticed that the Online Writing Lab owlet for this course also
includes two other styles of Argumentative Essay, the Rogerian and the
Toulmin Argument. Please disregard these styles. Our course will focus
on using the Aristotelian, or classical essay, style only.
As
you think about your outline, you will want to read more about your
topic and gather credible sources. Gaining a good amount of knowledge of
your topic will be extremely important to persuasive argument. Please
read the “Argumentative Purposes” and “Using Evidence” sections of the owlet developed for this course by the Excelsior Online Writing Lab.
“Argument and Critical Thinking.” 2018. Excelsior Online Writing Lab (OWL).
Once you have read and gathered at least three (3) credible sources on your topic,
you will want to start filling in your thoughts under each of the
categories of the Aristotelian Argumentative Essay. Your outline
comprises your initial thoughts under these categories, not your final
thoughts. To get an idea of how to construct your outline, take a look
at the following video:
Please follow the Sample Outline below and submit your outline on a MS Word .docx in the Assignment Folder:
Sample Outline
[Your Name]
I. Introduce your Issue
a. open with a story about my personal experience using a second language at my work (pathos)
b. transition to thesis
c. Refined Argumentative Thesis: Learning a second language has
a beneficial impact on education, leads to greater job opportunities
and fosters communication in our communities, therefore learning a
second language should be mandatory for all college students
II. Present your case:
a. Learning a second language leads to better educational outcomes for students
1. test scores in other subjects are increased
2. students are able to write better and earn better grades for their writing
b. Learning a second language leads to greater job opportunities
1. communication is an important part of business
2. companies are hiring multi-lingual staff so they can expand operations to other countries
c. Communication is key to fostering community
1. multi-lingual community leaders help communication in communities
III. Address the Opposition:
a. Some college students are just not good at learning another language, so their efforts would be a waste
b. making a second language compulsory in college takes away from student choice
IV. Provide your Proof:
a. Landsdowne (2015) makes a compelling case for inclusion of second
language learning in the high school classroom by comparing the grades
of students who didn’t study a second language and those who did.
b. Macready and Simmons (2013) demonstrate that the hiring of
multi-lingual staff by Fortune 500 companies has increased dramatically
since 2010.
c. Johnson (2017) points to the dramatic effect a multilingual community leader had on her community.
V. Conclusion:
a. brief summary of main points-educational outcomes, job opportunities, community
b. remind audience of thesis
c. make a larger point about cultural awareness and tolerance are important for everyday life in the United States.
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Do not use AI please, must pass turnitin AI detection and plagerism test.
