Essay"Where Have All the Criminals Gone?"
Central Claim:
"Legalized abortion led to less unwantedness; unwantedness leads to high crime; legalized abortion, therefore, led to less crime." (p. 443)
My Central Claim:
"Levitt and Dubner effectively show [how legalizing abortion is responsible for the drop in crime] by explaining why many other factors commonly believed by the public were not affective and how studies and statistics from other countries show the relation between legalized abortion and the drop in crime." (p.1)
My revised claim:
"The central claim is shown as the authors discredit other explanations for the drop in crime since the authors introduce the abortion theory after discrediting many other explanations and show how effective abortion was in that regard."
My conclusion:
"Levitt and Dubner leave the reader with basically no doubt in their minds that abortion had a great affect on the drop in crime in the 1990s." (p.4)
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In this rhetorical analysis, you've given a very thourough summary of the work. You've explained that the authors do a very good job in convincing the reader, but it is never quite explained how they did this rhetorically. You need to focus more on the effectiveness of the writing as opposed to the actual written material. You have not shown how the authors used argument to sway the readers.
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