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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