In Class Lab 12/1

Paper #1

1.

a. The main point the author is making is that declawing cats is wrong.

b. The author’s thesis is stated clearly in her last paragraph, though strongly implied throughout the rest of the argument.  

2.

a. Her reasons include the fact that declawing is painful, that it disrupts the cats motor functions, and that it takes away their defense mechanism needed to survive.

b. The description of the process given by an expert provide reason to make the reader believe that declawing would be disruptive to the feline’s abilities. Referring to the well-known fact that cats use their claws to protect themselves proves the truthfulness of third reason, and the quote from the All Feline Hospital website makes the statement of lingering pain reliable.

c. The reasons are believable and sufficient.

3.

a. The author provides many counter arguments. The author deals with them by appealing to the reader through pathos.

b. The author responds to some of them with more firmness while looking at others logically and then conquering.

c. The author does treat the other arguments as sort of valid but then dismisses them.

d. There are some statements that seem over generalized about the pain after the surgery that would be more believable with statistics.

3. Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and past president of the Academy of Feline Medicine, and All Feline Hospital Website.

a. She quotes both.

b. The first is very credible as it is full of fact and no opinions. The second is credible, though the last sentence puts a little bit of doubt in the reader.

c. The reader does not specify when they were presented.

5.

a. The author assumes the reader is uneducated on the topic.

b. The last sentence of the essay helps me relate to the topic.

c. The author and I share the opinion that declawing is too extreme and dangerous.

 

 

Paper #2

 

1.

a. That the sale of marijuana is a good way to improve the finance of the US, schools, and healthcare in the US.

b. It was mostly implied, thought the last sentence was a little clearer.

2.

a. Taxes for marijuana is given to schools in large tax amounts. That Colorado is thought to gain $125 million in tax revenue in a year.

b. The author provides statistics and other facts.  

c. Very persuasive reasons

3.

a. He does mention counter arguments. Deals with them by first eloquently describing the opposing view and then shooting it down with statistics.

b. He responds very reasonably, though it is subject to question and opinion.

c. He is respectful.

d. His arguments ignore the fact that if marijuana is open in families, children will be likely to get into it, potentially hurting their education to  degree, that the class room setting doesn’t matter.

4.

a. The DEA is used as a counter argument. Colorado Department of Revenue is used as a support. The teacher is used as a counter argument.

b. all very credible

c. all very resent.

5.

a. the writer includes me by talking about students and, “our” children.

b. the use of “our” includes me.

c. The desire for education and healthcare to be good is shared by me.