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Specific Purpose: To persuade our audience that the drawbacks of affirmative action outweigh the benefits.
Central Idea: Affirmative Action is good in its intentions, but the way that is carried out is unfair and actually created discrimination
I. Introduction
a. (Attention Getter): Affirmative action is used to fill quotas in college admissions, instead of accepting the credible applicants. Under affirmative action someone is enrolled based on there race rather than there scholastic merit
b. (Thesis Statement): Affirmative action takes race and gender into account, by attempting to promote equal opportunity.
c. (Justification): Affirmative action, unfairly promotes minorities based on there race, rather than actually work ethic. We are all affected by it in school and in the work place.
d. (Speaker Credibility): Through research that our group has done, we have found that Affirmative action is used unfairly in college admissions and in the workplace. To promote equal opportunity, while not being based on scholastic or workplace merit, but more on filling racial or gender quotas.
e. (Preview of Main Points):
i. Affirmative may seem good on paper, but it has many flaws when it is put into practice. We will discuss these flaws.
ii. Next we will present how Affirmative action begins to discredit those of equal opportunity who worked hard to achieve success. Because so may see that there success was only derived by affirmative action policies.
iii. Finally, we will have arguments and solutions to the problems based on these issues
Specific Purpose: To persuade our audience that affirmative action is an unfair method of promoting equal opportunity.
Central Idea: The intention of affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for minorities actually puts limitations on opportunity for others who may be more deserving.
I. Introduction
a. (Attention Getter): Every year as new college students apply for admission to universities all across the country, more than just their individual academic achievements and merit are considered. Is it fair that someone who did not work as hard and is not as deserving should get your place at your ideal university just because the school needs to fill its racial quotas?
b. (Thesis Statement): Affirmative action policies aim to promote equal opportunity, but actually ends up hurting everyone involved by unfairly leaving out more deserving individuals and by discrediting the actual achievements of minorities.
c. (Justification): Affirmative action is an issue that affects the lives of every single person in this room. Whether it be at school or in the work place, we are all being evaluated on our racial background rather than our work ethic.
d. (Speaker Credibility): Our group has done extensive research in the area of affirmative action in college admissions and have found an overwhelming amount of information supporting our position that the policy is unfair and an unsuitable method of ensuring equal opportunity.
e. (Preview of Main Points):
i. We will begin by pointing out the issues that affirmative action causes by counting out those who are most worthy because of their achievements.
ii. Then, we will continue by discussing how affirmative action negatively affects those that it is aiming to protect by discrediting their achievements.
iii. Finally, we will bring forth some arguments and alternative solutions to these problems.
