Essay - Argument Analysis the Following Appeared in an Editorial Section of...

Argument analysis

The following appeared in an editorial section of a local newspaper: "This past winter, 200 students from California State College traveled to the state capitol building to protest cuts in funding for various state college programs. The other 12,000 California State ***** ***** evidently weren't so concerned about their education; they either stayed on campus or left f***** winter break. Since the group who did not ***** is *****ar more numerous, it ***** more representative ***** the state's college students than the protesters; therefore, the state legislature need not heed the appeals of the protesting students." Discuss how well rea*****ned you find this argument. In your discussion be sure to ***** line of reasoning and the use of evidence in the *****. You can also discuss, what if anyth*****g would make the argument ***** sound and persuasive or ***** help ***** better evaluate its conclusion.

The argument 'the bigger the better' is specious when applied to car advert*****ements and p*****tion *****ings at fast food restaurants and is similarly inappropri*****e ***** applied ***** evaluating ***** strength ***** support of a protest. All the ***** on campus to a man ***** wo***** could support ***** student *****ers' sentiments regarding funding at ***** State College. However, the students who chose ***** remain ***** campus might feel that ***** ears of the legislators ********** be deaf to their *****. Moreover, the ***** students ***** ***** the protester's stand on ***** issue of cuts in fund*****g, and even the protestor's feelings regarding ***** issue's importance, but not necessarily the specific students ***** organization in charge of this particular protest. Perhaps a radical socialist or communist student group organized ***** *****, and students did ***** wish to associate themselves with the other issues advocated by the ***** organizing ***** protest.

Also, the issue at hand is cuts in various California St*****e College *****—merely because *****dividuals ***** not join in with ***** protest does not mean they did or do ***** care ***** their educations in general. Perhaps the cuts for ***** proposed programs are relatively minor, except in the eyes of those students most affected by the cuts. But ***** ***** will be affected ***** the *****—perhaps students of *****ity or sociologically d*****advantaged backgrounds, still deserve to have their voices acknowledged as valid.

*****, the fact that the ***** State College is quite vast ***** ***** numerical population, rather than a small liberal arts school of uniform socioeconomic and ethnic composition, may mean that many part-time students might be counted in the numbers of ***** 12, 000 strong ***** its *****. Some of the 12,00 students ***** only be taking a few classes at California ***** College. Full-time students and students embarking upon professional undergraduate degrees, in for instance, engineering, education, or social w*****k, ***** be more adversely affected ***** more inclined to ***** than those ***** ***** a few subjects half-heartedly, whose future livelihoods did not depend upon ***** maintaining of the funding at stake in the leg*****lature, or whose main commitments *****