Argumentation 3:

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Argumentation (3)

• Things to Do and to Avoid

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Outline

• Do1. Clear practical thesis statement 2.
  Clear development of support (including refuting
  counter-arguments)
• Avoid Faulty logic or inappropriate reasons
• Introduction
• Do Impressive which also introduces your thesis
  
• Avoid Simplification of reasons
• Conclusion
• Do Wrap up all of your points make an emotional
  appeal
• Avoid introduce a new topic.

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Clear Practical Thesis statement

• Therefore, strict laws regulating the campaign
  methods should be set up, while alternatives,
  such as televised debate provided by the
  government, TV commercials, newspaper ads, and
  other types of noiseless but creative promotional
  methods should be extensively promoted.

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Clear Thesis statement rev.

• Therefore, stricter laws should be set in
  regulating the campaign methods such as flags,
  rally and motorcade, while the candidates should
  also resort to alternatives campaign methods,
  such as televised debate provided by the
  government, TV commercials, newspaper ads, and
  other types of noiseless but creative promotional
  methods.

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Development (1) Reasons in support of
Homosexuals adoption

• Main Argument Adoption not only saves an orphan
  from the substandard foster home but also offers
  family happiness to the homosexual pairs.
• 1. Refuting Counter-arguments Good parenting is
  not influenced by sexual orientation. Rather,
  what it requires are unconditional love and
  adequate finance, which both heterosexual and
  homosexual parents could provide.

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Development(1) Reasons in support of
Homosexuals adoption (2)

• 2. Refuting Counter-arguments If a homosexual
  household creates gender confusion owning to only
  fatherhood or motherhood to the adopted children,
  then the same problem should happen on
  single-parent families as well.
• 3. Refuting Counter-arguments There is no clear
  evidence showing that children raised in a
  homosexual household are much more likely to
  become homosexuals in the future.

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Development(1) Reasons in support of
Homosexuals adoption (3)

• 4. Homosexual adoption also solves the problem of
  shortage of adoptive and foster parents.

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Development (2) Reasons in support of
cohabitation

• First, cohabitants would have a better mutual
  understanding through the process of
  cohabitation.
• If a couple is in love with each other, they want
  to be with each other all the time.
• college couples find themselves more independent
  from the families. It is a symbol of showing
  maturity.
• The fear towards marriage also leads them to
  choose only to cohabit, but not to get married.

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Development (3) Reasons against All-English
kindergarten -suggestions

• Parents attitude is the most important
• Should be learned in a natural environment
• Overemphasis of English can be harmful to
  childrens acquisition of their mother tongue
• It is not necessary for children in Taiwan to
  learn English in All-English kindergarten, which
  makes English superior to native language and
  English teachers, to Taiwanese.

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Development (3) Reasons against All-English
kindergarten

• It is not necessary for children in Taiwan to
  learn English in All-English kindergarten.
• Examples of over-emphasis of English
• hierarchy at school
• lack of Chinese abilities
• Example of natural bi-lingualism.
• How to practice bi-lingualism in a kindergarten
  and at home.

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Development transition

• If girls really decide to cohabit with their
  boyfriends, they really need to carefully
  consider it. One day, if they break up, the
  record of cohabitation cant be retrieved. In the
  next relationship or the marriage, the record
  will be with girls. Most men cant accept that
  their girlfriends or wives have cohabited with
  men.
• Perhaps, those students who decide to cohabit may
  say that they live together for love and deeper
  understanding.

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• Girls, especially, should think twice befor they
  decide to cohabit with their boyfriends. They
  should know that once they break up, the record
  of cohabitation cannot be erased. In the next
  relationship or the marriage, the record will be
  with girls. Most men cant accept that their
  girlfriends or wives have cohabited with men.
• Even if they dont care about other peoples
  views and argue that they cohabit for love and
  deeper understanding, is cohabitation, I want to
  ask, the only way to achieve mutual understanding?

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Reasoning (1) Advertisements are educational.

• For instance, the commercial films of milk or
  yogurt claims that to drink milk and yogurt is
  good for health, because calcium is necessary
  for our body and the germs yogurt has is good for
  digestion. Besides, whether we are going to buy
  the certain brand of milk and yogurt or not, we
  get the further knowledge about which nutrition
  and germs are good for us.

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Reasoning (1) Advertisements are educational.

• Reasoning not rigorous enough? Providing
  knowledge or constant reminder?
• For instance, the commercial films of milk or
  yogurt repeatedly claim that drinking milk and
  yogurt is good for health, because calcium is
  necessary for our body and the live and active
  cultures yogurt has is good for digestion.
  Whether we are persuaded into buying a certain
  brand of milk and yogurt or not, we are
  constantly reminded of the importance of calcium
  and lactic acid-producing bacteria.

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Note

• CULTURED DAIRY FOODS Cultured dairy foods are
  milk products that result from the fermentation
  of milk or its products by starter cultures
  (i.e., selected specific microorganisms) that
  produce lactic acid under controlled conditions.
  e.g. Sour Cream Yogurt
• Yogurt. Yogurt is the product resulting from the
  culturing of a mixture of milk and cream products
  with the lactic acid-producing bacteria,
  Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus
  thermophilus.

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Introduction

• Nowadays, the social phenomenon has changed.
  Peoples values towards many things are
  different, such as the value of wealth, love,
  sexual intercourse, etc. The rate of divorces is
  getting higher and higher. The latest number of
  the rate of divorce is one out 2.5 couples that
  gets divorced. This phenomenon has also
  influenced on campus. Couples cohabit because
  they are afraid of getting married.

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Introduction (2)

• On college campus, many student couples
  cohabit. Some of the couples enjoy doing so while
  some end up breaking up with each other. Some
  would just like to give it a shot. No matter what
  the consequences may be, in my opinion, I find it
  good for college student couple to cohabit.

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Introduction problems

• 1. simplification of reasons for cohabitation
• 2. Thesis statement too short and unclear.
• 3. Lack of connection between the first and the
  second paragraphs.

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Introduction suggested solution

• As our society develops more diverse views
  about love, sexual intercourse and goals of life,
  marriage may not be the only or the best
  destination of love. Instead, cohabitation turns
  out to be a common choice nowadays, while more
  and more married couples end up in divorce. This
  general trend, of course, has its trickle-down
  effects on college, where young couples opt for
  cohabitation for various reasons such as love,
  convenience, mutual understanding and trial
  marriage. Considering the large number of
  unhappy couples and divorced ones, isnt
  cohabitation a better and safer choice for our
  young couples?

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Topic sentence conclusion

• Homosexuals are exactly the same as heterosexuals
  besides(except for) their sexual orientation,
  which is a matter of personal choice and should
  not be discriminated against. Homosexuals and
  their adoptive children may be looked down by
  some people in the society for this reason, it
  is important for homosexual couples to help the
  children face the prejudices and develop a strong
  mind.

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Topic sentence conclusion (2)

• Brainwashing the discrimination against
  homosexuals of the public is also inevitable.
  solution through media education. . . They are
  just minority compared with heterosexuals. After
  all, some homosexuals could be better parents
  than those heterosexuals who are addicted to
  alcohol, drugs, and violence.

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Topic sentence conclusion (suggestion 1)

• Nobody can deny the humanity of homosexuals, who
  differ from the heterosexuals only in their
  sexual orientation. Nobody can deny their need,
  and thus their human right, to love and be loved,
  and, above all, to have a family with both a
  spouse and children.

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Topic sentence conclusion (suggestion 2)

• As normal human beings, homosexuals not only are
  able to provide orphans a good home, they can
  offer them a healthy and loving family
  environment. Moreover, in face of
  discrimination, they teach their children to be
  opener to differences and stronger in fighting
  against prejudices. After all, some homosexuals
  could be better parents than those heterosexuals
  who are addicted to alcohol, drugs, and violence.

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Conclusion

• The purpose of having a casino in Penghu is to
  try to improve the tourism the purpose of having
  a casino in Penghu is to let people from other
  countries know how wonderful Penghu is the
  purpose of having a casino in Penghu is to solve
  the financial problem the purpose of having a
  casino in Penghu is to make Penghu people live
  better lives.

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Conclusion

• Everyone has different opinions about this issue,
  but s/he has to understand a very important
  thing if people cannot live anymore, all they
  can do is to try to solve the problem and then
  continue the lives. The problem that Penghu
  people have to face isno money, no jobs, and no
  happy lives. People want to have happy and rich
  lives, and they also have the rights to get what
  they are deserved to have. Now Penghu people need
  a casino to save their lives, why not helping
  them? Thus, set up a casino and save the Penghu
  people.

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Conclusion

• The purpose of having a casino in Penghu is to
  try to improve its tourism so that people from
  the other countries know how wonderful Penghu is.
  The purpose of having a casino in Penghu is,
  more importantly, to solve its financial problem
  so that Penghu people can live better lives.