During my college prep English course I was assigned to
write a persuasive essay. For my topic I
chose to argue the point of compensating collegiate athletes. The main purpose of this essay was to
convince those who did not believe college athletes should receive extra compensation
beyond a scholarship. Because of this
purpose, I chose to focus primarily on the sports that produced an enormous
profit for the universities, men’s basketball and football. Although the purpose was for those who don’t
agree with the same point as me, I knew that my audience would be my English teacher
and the other students in my class. Knowing
that my teacher and most of my classmates did not know much abut college sports
and what athletes received in a scholarship, this forced me to include a great
deal of background about what is included in a scholarship and what the
university made in comparison to what the players received. With a topic like the one I chose to write
about, there are many possible stances that I could have taken. This could be beneficiall, however I believe that this actually
got me into trouble while writing this essay. I jumped between different stances and did not do a great job of establishing
the attitude I would use to convince others of my view. As this is a persuasive
essay I wrote this in essay form, using an introduction followed by several
different points. These points then had pieces
of data and specific facts to back them up. For media, the most efficient and best way to deliver this message was
through a traditional typed out essay.
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