Proposal

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Author: Jessica Zacarias

Date: 9/30/2012

Topic: Persuasive argument for Proposition 30

Exigence: Every Californian resident’s future is compromised if we can’t get more money into our schooling system.

Intended Audience: All voters. People for prop 30, people against prop 30, uniformed people on the subject, students at Cabrillo, People concerned about the California School system.

Purpose: To convince voters to vote yes on Prop 30 and to inform the public about very real and dramatic circumstances if it does not pass.

Claim: It is essential that Proposition 30 passes for the benefit of not only the students but for the public and our next generation. If we are moving forward in time, our school system should be EVOLVING not getting worse.

Writer’s Strategy one: Logos

The logos I will use for my paper are all the statistics and figures that I have come across. It will help to not only use the statistics evaluating all of California, but the ones that directly affect Cabrillo Students. A couple examples of this are that if Prop 30 does not pass, 780 full time students wont have a spot in a classroom. Or that if it does pass, more teachers will be employed which would not only benefit the kids of the future but help the economy as well. This is also where I will use my counter point. On stopprop30.com they state “California cannot afford to lose more jobs or to further damage our economic recovery. Now is not the time for tax increases which will only harm California families and small businesses.” However this statement is completely false, funding schools will lead to MORE jobs for teachers and all other administrative departments.  And since more students will get to go to school it will provide more capable citizens with better ideas and jobs to go with them in the long run.

Reader Effect one:

This evidence will persuade readers because after hearing multiple verifiable and disastrous outcomes if the proposition doesn’t pass and hearing the multiple benefits for all California residents if it does pass, it would practically be idiotic to vote no on it. By using one of their “strongest” reasons to vote no on Prop 30, and proving that reason wrong will show the reader that as a writer and persuader, I am not only not naïve to the oppositions point of view, but I can prove it wrong.

Writer’s Strategy two: Ethos

I’ll be credible for speaking about this topic because I myself am currently in a Community College (which has reaped the financial cuts)and am transferring to a CSU or Uc Next Fall. Being in the system and literally feeling the effects the excessive budget cuts makes me qualified to know how the system can improve. Having a Dad who went to UCSC, and a Brother who went to Cabrillo and transferred to UCSC talk about how much easier/ cheaper it used to be only motivates me to fight harder because I know what the schooling system used to be and what it could be with some help. It should be evolving with time, not disintegrating. 

Readers Effect two:

How is it that old politicians who clearly don’t understand the distress that the younger generation is going through have any qualifications to say, “ No, money should not go to schools.” Because I am the “younger generation” I am qualified to talk and argue for proposition 30 because it is directly affecting me and many of those around me.

Writer’s Strategy three: Pathos

To Evoke emotion I will bring a personal story into the mix. Cabrillo has cut so many classes that in order to go to the school that I want to go to, I’m going to have to drive to a different Community College about one hour away two times a week to fulfill a required course for my major. By cutting classes, students have to stay at Cabrillo for longer because all the classes are impacted and hard to get into. Not only are there less classes and teachers, there is an increasing amount of kids that need to get into the classes. It is detrimental to students and their family’s financial situation if getting your general education requirements done means spending more and mores semesters trying to get into classes and more and more time and money waiting to get in.

            Readers Effect three:

Emotion is something that every single person can relate to, no matter what side you are on. Pathos can really wrap everything together by demonstrating real-life examples of how these cuts are affecting literally every individual student.