Argumentative Essay - body paragraphs

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Argumentative Essay

How to write good body paragraphs

In the body paragraphs you are going to put your arguments forward clearly. You are going to write four:

1. first argument for

2. second argument for

3. argument against

4. refutation

You will be shown two examples. 

Which one would you say is better?

Thesis= 'using animals as test subjects should be forbidden at all costs'. 

Firstly, to use animals for scientific tests is extremely cruel. Sometimes it is forgotten that animals can feel pain as well. The experiments that researchers are conducting can be incredibly painful, both mentally and physically. They are injecting these poor animals with dangerous diseases like HIV or AIDS in order to find a cure for humans. Most of the times, these cures do not work and the animal passes away. THey die in a small cage made of plasitc. The amount of suffering an animal has to go through, is enormous. 

Thesis= The government should obligate people to get their necessary vaccinations. 

To begin with, people will get ill for no reason. Of course it is normal that everyone gets a flu once every few years, but when people willingly kep themselves from preventing these illnesses, they take unnecessary risks. When we look a little bit further into it, you see that it is not just about rejecting a flu shot, in the Netherlands all children can get vaccinated when they are nine years old. But some parents don't want their children to get those vaccinations because they think it is not the way it should be and most of the time they base these thoughts on their religion. 

Which body paragraph did you think was better?

animal testing

vaccination

Explain why the one on animal testing is better.

In all body paragraphs it's essential that you 'PEE'. What does that stand for?

So..... body paragraphs should

1. link directly to the thesis statement.

2. start with the point you are going to make

3. Explain/give evidence of that point

4. give an example.

Now, write your own. 

Write the two body paragraphs with your arguments for your thesis statement. You can continue from the introduction. Just write them in that document, improving your introduction by using my feedback at the same time. Then hand in on Teams.