10.7 Considering Types

Out of all the different types of public arguments, I would believe that my project will be most similar to the position argument. Despite the position argument only voicing one side, I will be focusing on both sides equally. That way the audience can decide on their own opinion after getting the chance to see both sides of the controversy. Other arguments may not work because they ask for solutions, or refuting a solution already proposed. These arguments may not work because I am not proposing a solution for my controversy nor am I questioning a solution already proposed.

Steven

10.6 My Rhetorical Action Plan

With my public argument, I am trying to persuade my audience to not believe everything the media says and to have them form their own opinion on which side they feel they relate to more. I feel my audience already knows a great deal of information if they have been keeping up with recent news, as the events are talked about almost everyday. Some persuasive evidence that might help my audience form their own opinion would be to provide them with both sides of the story equally and provide facts that help both sides. My audience could enjoy hearing voices from both sides of the controversy. I think my genre will be an animated presentation. This will provide the audience with a fun way to keep up with all the events, and show both sides of the controversy. Different parts of rhetorical appeals will be used throughout my project; ethos, pathos, and logos. For the ethos aspect, identifying both sides of the controversy will be important. This is an emotional controversy, as people have already formulated their own opinions about the matter and tend to stand strongly behind them. I will be presenting statistics and facts about both sides equally, which will appeal to the logos. Some positive reactions that could happen after taking a look at my project is that the audience will be able to discuss the topic without stating bias facts they found in the media. A negative reaction could be that they could believe the the media is more trustworthy than my project, and then pay no attention to other people's opinion, thinking that theirs is 100% correct.

Steven

10.5 Analyzing Context

The idea for both sides of my controversy is that one side believes that the criminal justice system discriminates against minorities. While the other side is that the police officers are doing the job necessary in order to keep our community safe. Both sides of the argument want the community to be a safer place. The point of this project is to help receive the right information about both sides equally in order to formulate the audiences own opinion besides basing it off a bias media. There are three perspectives that are important in this controversy. The police officers side, the minorities side, and the medias portrayal of both. The medias perspective is the greatest threat because there is so much more information being displayed through the different sources available. This causes people to believe what they are hearing because they hear it more often.

Steven

10. 4 Analyzing Purpose

The purpose of my new project is to have my audience feel more informed about the controversy I have selected. By the end of reading my project, I would like for my audience to have the information necessary to make their own decision on how they feel about the issue. Some plausible actions from my audience would be them making decisions for themselves on which side they feel is correct. Also while discussing this topic with friends and family having the ability to make educated conversation without believing everything the news says. The media may be part of the issue, but it is always helpful because that is where we get all of our information. If we do enough digging and look at both sides, the audience can then see who is all involved and whether one side made the right choice or not.

Steven

10.3 Learning for Project #3

The prompt for project really helped me figure out what I need to write about and how to search for my specific audience and context. Also I found out that we can not write something similar to what we wrote before. I may try to get my voice heard by using an animated presentation. I feel this way will be a fun and interesting way to learn about my controversy.

Steven

Week 9 Reflections

I commented on Felicia's Clarity Part 2, Deb's Questions about Controversy, Cynthia's Narrowing her focus, and Andrew's Questions about Controversy.

English 102 aims to support student development in the four learning goals defined for all first-year courses in the Writing Program:

• Goal 1: Rhetorical Awareness. Learn strategies for analyzing texts’ audiences, purposes, and contexts as a means of developing facility in reading and writing.

-This was achieved when we wrote our blogs about clarity part 2.

• Goal 2: Critical Thinking and Composing. Use reading and writing for purposes of critical thinking, research, problem solving, action, and participation in conversations within and across different communities.

-Adding more sources and creating another annotated bibliography helped the class think critically of the questions we created earlier.

• Goal 3: Reflection and Revision. Understand composing processes as flexible and collaborative, drawing upon multiple strategies and informed by reflection.

-Narrowing our focus was a great way to reflect on our questions from the previous post. By looking at our questions again, we were able to pick questions that we found were the most important about our subject.

• Goal 4: Conventions. Understand conventions as related to purpose, audience, and genre, including such areas as mechanics, usage, citation practices, as well as structure, style, graphics, and design.

-Audience and genre also helped us focus on our questions and provide accurate examples of what we could do to help solve our questions. 

Course Goals

In English 102, you should learn how to:

• Read texts to assess how writers achieve their purposes with their intended audiences.
• Devise writing strategies suited to various rhetorical situations.
• Develop an argument with persuasive appeals to your audience.
• Locate and analyze evidence to develop an argument.
• Develop ideas with observations and reflections on your experience.
• Revise in response to feedback from readers to improve drafts.
• Use the conventions of scholarly research, analysis, and documentation.
• Use the conventions of academic writing, including clear, convincing prose.

Steven

9.7 Audience and Genre

There are two specific audiences who may be interested in my questions. The first group is police officers. Police officers may want to know the answers to my questions in order to help solve them. Since the questions are about them and deal with their actions, perhaps police officers may want to know what the public is saying about them so they can make adjustments to their behavior or stand behind their officers. Another group that may want to know the answers to my questions is the media itself. Does the media care if they are being one sided? Perhaps if they were not one sided then they would receive more views and make more profit.

For police officers, if I wanted them to look into my work, I would publish my work all across the departments. Something that is along these lines would be in a newsletter sent to all departments. Another example would be to an informative study sent to a specific agency such as the FBI.

For the media itself, it would be important to look at their own statistics to see whether they are properly reflecting events that are happening in the nation. One example I could use to inform them of their statistics would be an article sent to a news station. Another example to access the genre is to have an interview with another station.

Steven

extended Annotated Bibliography

Bryant, K, Greenspan, R, Hamilton, E, Williams, H, & Weisburd, D. (2001). Abuse of Police Authority: A National Study of Police Officers' Attitudes. National Criminal Justice Reference Service. Washington, D.C. http://www.policefoundation.org

This article is about a study attempting to show the voices of multiple police officers about sensitive subjects. One of these subjects is police abuse. Within the article, police officers views and opinions about police abuse to the community is expressed. This helps answer my question about how the media portrays both sides of my controversy. This article can show one of the sides of my controversy, and how it is shown to the public.

McLaughlin, E. (2015, April 24). We're not seeing more shootings, just more news coverage. Retrieved from: www.cnn.com

In this article, McLaughlin shares his opinion on the media coverage of police brutality. He thinks that there are not more shootings, just more coverage. He also finds it difficult to see the number of police shootings, compared to other non important statistics. This article will be helpful in answering my questions because it reacts to police brutality and shows a certain way the media normally acts in these types of topics.

Chermak, S, McGarrell, E, & Gruenewald, J. (2006) Media coverage of police misconduct and attitudes toward police. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, Vol. 29(2)261 - 281. Doi: tp://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13639510610667664

This article discusses exactly what my question is, how the media covers police misconduct. The study looks at police attitudes and opinions of how they feel about cases that have become popular. This could range from demographics to actions that police officers may feel about the case or how the case has effected the community. This article will answer my question from a different view of how the police officers feel about the media coverage.

Rogers, C. (2015, October 25). Letter: Quit criticizing for doing their job. Retrieved from: www.sltrib.com

Rogers trys to make the claim that police officers are doing their job and to stop criticizing them. Also she trys to explain to the public that it is a difficult job and to think about how they would in the police officers shoes. This is one example of the media that can show that it is not entirely one sided. The media covers both opinions of this controversy.

Dowler, K. (2003). Media Consumption and Public Attitudes Toward Crime and Justice: The Relationship between Fear of Crime, Punitive Attitudes, and Perceived Police Effectiveness. Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, Vol. 10(2) 109-126.  http://www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/vol10is2/dowler.html

In this scholarly article, a study is used to show how watching the media effects your opinion on crime. The article also trys to see how effect the population views the police after media influence. This article will help me answer my questions because it answers the question of how the media reacts to police brutality and crime. By evaluating test subjects of how the media influences the public, it will become clear how they react to crime. 

Steven 

9.5 Narrowing My Focus

-How does the media react to police brutality?

This question is important because the media is where we get all of our information from. Whether the media is telling the truth or not, we are inclined to believe them. The media may overreact or stretch the truth in order to sell more stories. It is important to keep in mid that what the media says may not be entirely truthful.

-How does the media capture both sides?

It is important to ask this in order to see if the media has a one-sided view on the controversy. Also to see how the media describes each side to the controversy. This is important to not in order to see if the media is able to give full stories or captures the image properly as it occurs.

Steven

9.4 Questions About Controversy

• Write 5 questions in which you identify things you still need to learn about about WHO is involved in the controversy.

-How much of the population is in favor of each side?

-Are there some minorities that have no issue with what is happening?

-Are there some police officers that think there needs to be major police reform?

-Who are the activists for both sides?

-Do both sides recognize the issues here?

• Write 5 questions in which you identify things you still need to learn about about WHAT is up for debate in this controversy.

-Why do minorities voice out against police officers?

-Why do police officers and other supporters feel that they are doing the right thing?

-What is it that minorities are asking for?

-What are the key arguments for both sides?

-What is a possible solution to stop this controversy?

• Write 5 questions in which you identify things you still need to learn about WHEN this controversy has unfolded (and the larger contextual details of that time period that may be relevant).

-When was the first major event?

-When was the most recent event within the subject of minority discrimination?

-How many protests have been held?

-When did police officers use body cams?

-When did opposing supporters first start to speak out?

• Write 5 questions in which you identify things you still need to learn about WHERE this controversy has unfolded - and I mean both physical spaces and cultural spaces.

-Where are the most incidences?

-Where do most protests occur?

-Where are most activists voicing out that agree with the police work?

• Write 5 questions in which you identify things you still need to learn about HOW this controversy has unfolded in the media (including general popular media, scholarly media and social media)

-How come it took so long for the media to address the US?

-How does the media react to police brutality?

-How does the media capture the image of both sides?

-Does the media lean towards one side of the controversy?

Steven 

9.3. Final Submission of P2 Rhetorical Analysis

Steven Duron

English 102

10/24/15

How to go about writing a controversial topic

Controversial topics are great ideas to write about because there are so many different angles that the article can base its information from. Many professionals have discussed the controversial topic of how our criminal justice system can be unjust. Cassia Spohn agrees with most professionals as she writes "Race, Crime, and Punishment in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries” published by Crime and Justice. In her article, Spohn describes how the criminal justice system discriminates against minorities. She reaches out to her audience, readers who are aware of the controversy and have an interest in the field of study, about these issues. Spohn’s reasoning is enforced by different rhetorical strategies such as credibility, emotion, and logic.

To summarize what Spohn argues in her article, she claims that discrimination is experienced at all the levels of the criminal justice system. This discrimination from the police force creates a harmful environment for minorities. Also, she believes that the police force has discriminated against minorities, targeting blacks more than any other race. While the War on Drugs was going on throughout the nation, “the proportion of blacks arrested for serious violent crimes has declined but the proportion of blacks arrested for drug offenses has skyrocketed” (Spohn, 2015). She believes that the judicial system had discriminated against African Americans, which enforces her argument. For example, statistics show that blacks are stopped more often than any other race. This has led to the “overt discrimination directed against black criminal defendants” (Spohn, 2015). The argument illustrates that blacks were given harsher punishments for crimes compared to white people who commit the same crime. Another example she made was that in the prison systems, blacks are disproportionately represented when it comes to imprisonment comparisons. “Eighty years after the Census Bureau issued its report and posed its question about discrimination in punishment, the percentage of prisoners who were black had more than doubled” (Spohn, 2015). The statistics she uses enforces her claim that the percent of black people in prison were much higher than it should be compared to the amount of black citizens in the U.S.

Throughout her article, Spohn keeps her audience in mind, which is comprised of people who are interested in criminal justice and have a general knowledge of the subject. The way she presents her article suggests that it was designed for criminal justice enthusiasts. Her argument is strengthened by the usage of graphs and citing other professionals work who have contributed to the criminal justice community. A big part of the author’s message is that she pushes for change within the criminal justice system. “Reducing the racial disproportionality in prison and eliminating racial bias in non capital and capital sentencing should be high-priority goals of policy makers and politicians” (Spohn, 2015). Not only by reducing racial discrimination within the system, but she also wants to abolish the death penalty. Her entire article is designed to inform her audience on the topic of discrimination by criminal justice organizations. Another important aspect of her article is to suggest to readers a possible solution; abolish the death penalty.

The author uses multiple strategies to strengthen her article, one of these being the use of credibility. Her article is published within the journal Crime and Justice, which has multiple volumes and hundreds of issues that presents international research about core issues within criminology. Spohn cites several different authors and professionals to help strengthen her work and add to her credibility. The professionals that she cites within her article are all very informed and have written numerous scholarly articles, which indicates they are familiar in the field of study. She also brings up multiple past cases that have impacted our nation. Examples of these cases are Powell vs. Alabama, Brown vs. Board of Education, and Furman vs. Georgia. These cases were crucial to our growth as a nation and she uses them to enhance her credibility.  By the use of court cases, it implies that she has completed a fair amount of research for her paper in order to display strong facts.

Another strategy that she touches upon is the use of emotion. The topic she writes about is a very controversial topic that can bring about an emotional response. So many people are passionate about their opinions, and she uses that to her advantage. In her article, she explains “There is irrefutable evidence that blacks make up a disproportionate share of the US prison population" (Spohn, 2015). She uses sentences like this one to appeal to emotion as the reader reads her work. Since this topic is so controversial, after reading that blacks are constantly discriminated across the nation, readers should feel heightened opinions about the topic whether they agree with her or not.

The use of logic is another strategy that she uses throughout her article. Logic helps enforce an author's opinion by using facts and other tools. In her article, she cites several statistics about the unfair treatment of black citizens throughout the different levels of the criminal justice system. “The “unexplained disparity” in 2004 was 38.4 percent for violent crimes, 38.3 percent for property crimes, and 57.4 percent for drug offenses” (Spohn, 2015). The use of statistics is effective within this sort of topic because it can provide an estimate of how the system unfairly treats black citizens. Besides the use of statistics, she provides multiple graphs that show either the rise or decline of incarcerations of black citizens compared to other races. These statistics gives the readers a better analysis of the topic, making what she is saying more logical instead of being opinionated.

Cassia Spohn’s article “Race, Crime, and Punishment in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries” is a good example of how professionals within the field of Criminal Justice write scholarly articles. By identifying the right audience and writing to get her message across to her readers, she is able to accurately display her argument. Spohn enforces her argument by using multiple strategies credibility, emotion, and logic that help strengthen the idea that there is discrimination at multiple levels of the criminal justice system throughout the nation.

References

Spohn, C. (2015). Race, Crime, and Punishment in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Crime and Justice. Retrieved from: http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy2.library.arizona.edu/stable/10.1086/681550?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=Race,&searchText=Crime,&searchText=and&searchText=Punishment&searchText=in&searchText=the&searchText=Twentieth&searchText=and&searchText=Twenty-First&searchText=Centuries.&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DRace%252C%2BCrime%252C%2Band%2BPunishment%2Bin%2Bthe%2BTwentieth%2Band%2BTwenty-First%2BCenturies.%2B%26amp%3Bprq%3DIntroduction%253A%2BAfrican%2BAmericans%252C%2BPolice%2BBrutality%252C%2Band%2Bthe%2BU.S.%2BCriminal%2BJustice%2BSystem.%26amp%3Bgroup%3Dnone%26amp%3Bso%3Drel%26amp%3Bwc%3Don%26amp%3Bfc%3Doff%26amp%3Bhp%3D25%26amp%3Bacc%3Don


REFLECTION:

When revising my drafts, the difference between my rough draft and my final draft is my intro and conclusion. They are less wordy and I tried to adjust them to get the main idea across better. As a big picture, I thought my thesis was good but needed to adjust some paragraphs that were confusing. Reflections are helpful because they give the author the ability to take another look at their mistakes to help give them a better paper next time.

9.2 Clarity Part 2

Tighten wordy sentences

This is always an issue when I write papers. Wordiness happens when the writer repeat themselves or add phrases that are unnecessary. Other students have commented on my wordiness and this topic has given me some tips on how to reduce it.

"To summarize what Spohn argues in her article, she claims that discrimination is experienced at all the levels of the criminal justice system" (Duron).

Provide some variety

This topic explains that sometimes writers often have the same structured paragraphs, and suggests to occasionally mix up the sentences. Some examples are moving the adjectives to the front of the sentence or inverting them completely. This topic can help my paper because I tend to have the same opening sentence because I find it easier to start off the same way every time.

Emphasize key ideas

I believe this is an important topic to learn about because it can enhance a paper tremendously. In order to emphasize the key ideas, writers can combine choppy sentences, coordinate equal ideas, and subordinate minor ideas. When combining two sentences that hold equally important ideas, writers will coordinate these ideas.

Choose appropriate language

How a writer chooses to word their paper is very important. When writing papers, avoid slang and sexist language. There is also a such thing as being too formal or informal and it depends on the subject or audience.

"The professionals that she cites within her article are all very informed and have written numerous scholarly articles, which indicates they are familiar in the field of study" (Duron).

Steven

Weekly Learning Reflections 8

Deb's article for 8.1 Clarity.
Andrew's article for Revised Introduction.
Deb's article for Revised Conclusion.

Program Goals

English 102 aims to support student development in the four learning goals defined for all first-year courses in the Writing Program:

• Goal 1: Rhetorical Awareness. Learn strategies for analyzing texts’ audiences, purposes, and contexts as a means of developing facility in reading and writing.

This weeks assignments focused on rhetorical strategies and helped us learn the different strategies. 

• Goal 2: Critical Thinking and Composing. Use reading and writing for purposes of critical thinking, research, problem solving, action, and participation in conversations within and across different communities.

This goal was achieved by having the students respond to other students articles, especially the revised introduction and conclusion.

• Goal 3: Reflection and Revision. Understand composing processes as flexible and collaborative, drawing upon multiple strategies and informed by reflection.

Goal 3 is achieved every week by us completing reflections and commenting on students work. Also the Revised introduction and conclusion was also completed this week.

• Goal 4: Conventions. Understand conventions as related to purpose, audience, and genre, including such areas as mechanics, usage, citation practices, as well as structure, style, graphics, and design.

Working on our paper helps complete the fourth goal.

Course Goals

In English 102, you should learn how to:

• Read texts to assess how writers achieve their purposes with their intended audiences.
• Devise writing strategies suited to various rhetorical situations.
• Develop an argument with persuasive appeals to your audience.
• Locate and analyze evidence to develop an argument.
• Develop ideas with observations and reflections on your experience.
• Revise in response to feedback from readers to improve drafts.
• Use the conventions of scholarly research, analysis, and documentation.
• Use the conventions of academic writing, including clear, convincing prose.

Steven

8.5 Revised Conclusion

I think that my original conclusion is similar to my revised conclusion. I thought that my conclusion paragraph was acceptable. However, I did try to reduce my wordiness in my revised conclusion.

Original Conclusion:

Cassia Spohn’s article “Race, Crime, and Punishment in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries” is a good example of how professionals within the field of Criminal Justice write scholarly articles. By identifying the right audience and the ability to get her message across to her readers, she is able to accurately display her argument. Spohn enforces her argument by using multiple strategies that help strengthen the idea that there is discrimination at multiple levels of the criminal justice system throughout the nation.

Revised Conclusion:

Spohn is able to address her audience about her topic about minority discrimination by the criminal justice system. In her article "Race, Crime, and Punishment in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries,” she is able to enhance her article by the use of rhetorical strategies such as her appealing to emotion, logic, and credibility. The use of these strategies helps Spohn explain how the criminal justice system discriminates against minorities and provides a solution for problem.

8.4 Revised Introduction

After reading the corrections suggested by my fellow students, I attempted to revise my introduction by avoiding wordiness. I also hope that my revised introduction has more clarity than my original introduction.

Original Introduction:

Within all fields of work, there are multiple debates that professionals discuss that are important in their own field of study. In the field of criminal justice, discrimination from the criminal justice system is talked about a great deal. Cassia Spohn’s article “Race, Crime, and Punishment in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries” published by Crime and Justice claims that minorities are improperly treated by the criminal justice system and that a possible solution would be to abolish the death penalty. Within the article, the author presents multiple arguments and reasons about discrimination from the criminal justice system against minorities. Spohn’s reasoning is enforced by different rhetorical strategies such as credibility, emotion, and logic. work and a clearer and better defined thesis statement and avoid wordiness when doing so.

Revised Introduction:

Many professionals have displayed how our criminal justice system can be unjust. Cassia Spohn agrees with most professionals as she writes "Race, Crime, and Punishment in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries” published by Crime and Justice. In her article, Spohn describes how the criminal justice system discriminates against minorities. Her audience is aimed towards readers who are aware of the controversy, and have an interest in the field of study. By using different rhetorical strategies, she is able to create an article that clearly states her argument and solution to the problem.

8. 2 Reflection on Project 2 Draft

The drafts that I commented on were Oscar's and Andrew's.

After examining other students drafts, I was able to see how they identifying and proved their authors strategies. In order to enhance my paper, I will clarify my authors argument and display her audience within my introduction. I also plan on making sure that my readers know what strategies I am discussing along with providing the appropriate examples to explain how the author is using said strategies. As for my conclusion, I will briefly add which strategies the author used within her article.

Steven

8.1 Clarity, Part 1

The first topic I chose is titled "Prefer Active Verbs." Active verbs help enhance a writers sentences in place of passive words. In order to add an active verb, one just needs to avoid forms such as be, am, is, was, were, or been. After reading about this topic, I noticed that the active verbs really strengthen the sentences after seeing the before and after word choice.

A second topic is balancing parallel ideas. Parallels are words or phrases that match with the rest of the sentence. These parallel words create a better flow for the sentence and are often presented in pairs. These pairs are joined by using either, or, but, and, than. While comparing the first sentence with the revised one, adding parallels enhance the sentences.

After reading the third topic, add needed words, I understand that why certain sentences need words to help explain the sentence better and be grammatically correct. A good example of when to add words is when the writer is making comparisons. Adding a, an, and the can help grammatically when dealing with paired items within a writers sentences.

The last topic that I read was about untangling mixed constructions. This occurs when different parts of the sentence are next to each and don't mess together. A tip that I learned is to avoid is when, is where, and reason. Thinking back on my previous work, I know that I have made that mistake multiple times.

Steven

REFLECTION: I found myself searching for my four topics while I was editing students responses. However, it was difficult to identify some examples of these topics.

Prefer Active Verbs: "In brief, Harts article focuses on persuading alternative and traditional medicine to become one practice, while also taking into consideration common criticisms made from both disciplines" (Acosta).

Add needed words: "However, one must be reminded that even well-known scientists with credibility have been wrong and may have even hinder progress due to incorrect statements" (Rocha).

7.5 Draft of P2 Rhetorical Analysis

Here is my draft for my second project. If you guys could tell me if I got the idea of how this project should be completed that would be great. I will think of a title later on before the due date.

Thanks!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qdjbrjPG7hZPbC_M6OSIY9DEaOl_hdBNZf9-n8mcUps/edit?usp=sharing

Steven

Learning Reflection Deadline 7

The thesis statements that I commented on were Michael's and Anthony's. They both had thesis statements that identified what they were going to talk about and will be able to build off of it and add more information throughout their paper. I think my statement is good because it identifies how my author uses strategies to argue her main point.

Steven

7.5 Project 2 Outline

The Intro: Briefly summarize the article and explain that there are certain rhetorical strategies that the author uses. Point these out. Provide thesis sentence.

The Thesis: Within the article, the author displays multiple arguments and reasons about discrimination from the criminal justice system to minorities. The reasoning behind her work helps explain how minorities are discriminated and what can be done to solve the problem.

The Body: Describe the reasoning behind why the author believes that minorities are facing discrimination. Then describe the author’s identity and identify the author’s audience. The audience here is people who are informed about the topic but wish to learn more information. The author also proposes solutions to solve the problems she has addressed.

My analytical claims: Write about which analytical strategies I believe the author has used such as how she appeals to logic, emotion, and credibility.

Support for each claim: I will show support for each claim by providing citations within my work demonstrating how she successfully integrated these strategies.

Conclusion: Discuss my thesis again and how the author displays these strategies within her article that is typical for an article within criminal justice.

Steven

7.4 Draft Thesis Statements

Articles question: In what ways has the criminal justice system wrongly discriminated against minorities and what is a possible solution to reduce the discrimination?

My thesis: Within the article, the author displays multiple arguments and reasons about discrimination from the criminal justice system to minorities. The reasoning behind her work helps explain how minorities are discriminated and what can be done to solve the problem.

Within my paper, I think that it will be easy to explain the content of the article along with demonstrating the writer’s purpose. However, I do think it will be difficult to find out more about the author and write about some strategies that she has used.

Steven