PB1B: Finding Your Voice

• Part 1: Think about a public argument that you’d like to make for WP1. What issues do you care about what? What would you like to advocate for or against?   

I care about the social equity of sexes and I encourage more and more women could discover their potential to stand up and show GIRL POWER. Women’s participation in the workforce and politics remains relatively low, and women still are expected to perform all household and child-rearing activities. I against sexism, glass ceiling, glass escalator, glass cliff, patriarchal bargain etc. I not only care about these, but also care about economics issues, misjudged people issues, children issues, policy issues etc. Well, basically everything.

• Part 2: Looking ahead to WP1, you’ll need to write a Letter to the Editor (actually two of them!). Take a look back at the 3 examples that you collected for PB1A.  What “moves” (decisions, techniques, or strategies) did these writers made which you’d like to adopt/adapt in WP1.
  
  Using of strong words

Using of related examples, identities to struck a responsive chord in the hearts of its readers

Use different perspectives

Give the references

State the identity to be credible(education background, work experience, prizes etc.)

Be polite instead of judgemental and annoyed, be angry in a positive way

Agree with what you agree and then give your own opinion

• Part 3: Evaluate these three Letters to the Editor: Who do you think wrote the best LTE, and why?  What “didn’t work” and why? As you answer these questions, think about the intended audience of each piece.
  

To evaluate 3 LTE from my previous post, I would score the letter1 7.5, letter2 8.5 and letter3 with 9.

The reason why I score letter1 7.5 is because the writer the majority is about asking for building a new foundation for the people but not about seeking justice for the victims. That is not either persuasive or sympathetic enough to me, it could've be written better. This letter is too religious, I don't even want to read more if I am a non-Cathlic poerson.

The reason why I score letter2 8.5 is because as an audience I can feel her excitement and concern from reading her words. She uses the adj. such as "excited", "special", "promising", "significant", "historic"to express better. Furthermore, she states it is regressive to reinscribe the notion that women’s appearances are everything which is positive to point out. As the One Hundred Sixteenth United States Congress is the current meeting of the legislative branch of the Federal government of the United States, the topic is a hot button. 

The reason why I score letter3 9 is because the writer is very logical, creditable and persuasive at writing. She mentioned and emphasized her identity which is related to marijuana and race, as a woman of color, she states some points that we normally wouldn't think of primarily. From reading her letter to the editor, I got to know that the use of marijuana in the US is considered to advance a racist agenda in her opinion and decriminalization does not address restitution toward the black and brown communities disproportionately harmed by the war on drugs. As some states started to pass and announce the legalization of marijuana, this can be considered as a hot button as well. 

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