Hello
So for the holidays I’m supposed to be going through a booklet of articles about the topic of increasing the legal smoking age and annotating it.
I’m really struggling. I’m finding all the arguments first but it’s so hard for me to identify the beginning and end of each argument and it feels like the entire piece is just one argument.
Then when I do find an argument I feel like every piece has the same arguments and it’s annoying as. And every piece seems to have 3 arguments but I’m not sure if they actually do have 3 arguments or if I’m just assuming they all have 3 so that they match. Idk
Hello!
Firstly, is this argument analysis or are you preparing for your persuasive oral?
If the entire piece just feels like one big argument, then that's probably the contention of the writer.
There are subtle nuances that you need to consider to distinguish arguments.
Often, if the author is calling for action (in this case maybe to encourage increasing the legal smoking age), they would make 'arguments' on perhaps how exactly to increase it, the consequences of not increasing it or even the benefits of increasing it.
So if you think about it, every argument doesn't necessarily have to be persuasive (I'm only saying this because you're having a hard time finding them).
Sometimes the writer may refer to another study or someone else's opinions and provide a rebuttal or agree with it - that is sort of an 'argument.'
The writer may even compare Australia's legal age with say a different country and then talk about if an increased age in that country has benefited them, and so should happen in Australia so we can have a healthier environment.
Hope this helps just to guide you perhaps to analysise more closely and really dig deep into it!
(It'll be great if you could attach one of the articles, or if you can't then post the link of that article (a newspaper link) so we can read it and understand the arguments)
Or you can just take a photo of the article and just post it! It'll be really helpful!