My Proposed Public Argument

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     In the last post, I talked about a YouTube video as a public argument. Now, I will proceed to talk about my ideas for my own public argument. As of now, I am leaning toward more of a generalized social topic rather than a specialized, scientific argumentative paper (I have a feeling that I will be writing plenty of those in the future; so why not do something outside my major while I have the freedom to do that?). The audience will not only include my peers and my professor, but will also include those who may have a certain interest in that topic and want to hear either supporting arguments for their use or opposing arguments for training.

     Now that I think about it, if I wanted to make a proto-argumentative paper, I would probably do one on psychological development (maybe children and video games, a subject of which I can say I have much experience in). My purpose would then be to prove (if I were to use the children and video games topic) my message that video games bear little influence on the overall psychological development of children, and my audience would be parents, psychologists, and those with general interests in child psychology. On the other hand, if I wanted to pursue a general argument, I would choose a topic concerning higher education, making an argument that higher education should focus more on courses related to a person's major instead of general education courses. The audience, of course, would be students, teachers, college administrations, families with children in college, and potentially the Department of Education. Of course, both are simply examples; I am still trying to figure out what exactly I want to do.