Paper 3.1

1. What will you make your principal claim in Paper 3? Whom or what are you evaluating? What criteria are you using? After reading this argument, what do you want the audience to believe, feel, or do?
I'm evaluating a Newsweek article entitled "Straight Jacket" where the writer says gays can't play straight roles. I'm going to try and disprove his argument and after reading it i want the audience to feel like the Newsweek article was nonsense.

2. Where will this argument (your argument for Essay 3) appear? In what newspaper, magazine, on what blog, website, etc.?
My argument will appear in a blog on salon.com.

3. Based on the venue, what do you know about the audience? Do they fit a certain demographic? Do they tend towards a belief or a set of beliefs about the issue? How knowledgeable are they about the issue?
The audience will have read the Newsweek article and disagreed with what it had to say. The audience will also have knowledge of pop culture.

4. How will you present yourself as credible, savvy, trustworthy, amusing, etc?
I'm going to site a lot of sources and use counterexamples.

5. Look at one of your pieces of evidence. How does it support your argument in terms of whether your subject (whom or what you are evaluating) meets or falls short of your chosen criteria?
I took one of the examples the author mentions, reevaluate the example, and use it to rebuttal the authors original statement.

6. Complete one of the following statements:

In my paper I will use examples of homosexual celebrities who have managed to successfully portray a straight role as evidence. This sort of evidence would likely convince my audience because the author of the original article argues that there are few examples of successful gay actors.

7. How will you arrange your evidence?
My evidence will be arranged in the same order that they appear in the article that i am arguing against. The strongest example is put first.

8. How have you acknowledged or anticipated arguments from those who would disagree with you?
I acknowledge the authors argument then offer a counterexample to prove it false.