causal argument outline

Savannah Ballard

English 101       10-27-14

Causal Outline

Introduction: Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome or NAS, is a condition that is incredibly painful to an infant; it brings upon many dangerous symptoms as well. Born to mothers that used drugs while pregnant, these innocent newborns are forced to battle just to live in their first few days, weeks or months of life. NAS is a preventable condition that must be controlled and quickly, as the rates of newborns with NAS is climbing annually. The selfishness of these mothers who use drugs while carrying a child causes this painful condition, known as NAS, but even after being discharged from the hospital, these young babies are not out of harm’s way. Newborns with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome are at a higher risk of abuse due to the uncontrollable high pitched crying that cannot be soothed, caused by the drug withdrawal the child is experiencing.

Topic one: NAS is caused by mothers who use drugs while pregnant. This is not only a condition that leads to being born in withdrawal, but it leads to many other side effects, such as birth defects and a higher risk of abuse.

Topic Two: Newborns who develop NAS have a higher risk of abuse because they tend to have a high pitched cry that cannot be soothed or stopped.

Topic Three: The lack of punishment in our state for putting a child into this much harm is not severe enough, which leads to a rising rate of NAS babies being born each year.

Topic Four: If prevention programs were put into place, mothers could have somewhere to turn for help because they would be protected by the law for seeking medical attention.

Opposing Views: Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome is not a serious problem that needs to be addressed urgently or have money spent on prevention programs. What is more urgent than a newborn baby fighting for survival moments after birth? The money that is being used for post-natal care should be re- routed to help fight and prevent NAS rates from climbing more.

Conclusion: NAS is a serious problem that puts children at a higher risk for abuse, as well as causes many birth defects and life threatening symptoms, such as frequent seizures. This problem is large enough and needs to be fixed before more newborns are subjected to this needless pain. Child abuse is a serious problem, we can make a difference, and we must.

Assignment three:Causal argument

1. What are the purposes of Assignment 3?

1. What statements do you think could be added to make Assignment 3 clearer?

1. What are you confused about in this assignment?

The purpose of Assignment 3 are to make us think about a topic that is somewhat controversial and to persuade an audience to believe the cause or the consequences linked to that particular topic. This paper will also allow us to practice using quotes to support a point.

I think that to make assignment 3 clearer, the following statements could be addressed:

-The topic does or does not have to be controversial or well known as long as it relates back to you or your life in some way.

I am confused about whether we are actually attempting to propose solutions or if we are stating consequences or saying A caused B which caused C.

Causal Argument Assignment 3 10-22-14

Savannah Ballard

Eng 101

Hem Paudel

After reading the two papers, I found “Marriage shows the way out of poverty” to be more persuasive. This article had statistics to back up each of its reasons on why marriage will help people get out of poverty. This article also came at the topic from several angles, not only did he mention that marriage will help poverty, he mentions how having children after being married, getting a job and graduating high school all make a person more likely to not live in poverty. The second article “When roommates were random” is not very persuasive. This article only mentions marriage as a small side note at the end of the paper in a few sentences. Unlike the first paper, this article doesn’t contain any facts or statistics to draw in the reader.

I believe the writer of “Marriage shows the way out of poverty” does have a few fallacies. Not mentioning the opposing view that marriage isn’t for everyone is a big problem. Some people just don’t get along well with others and don’t want to be married, or they are so tied up with their career that they haven’t had time to meet a potential marriage partner; these people can still be just as successful or more than someone who is married. The lack of opposing view in this article doesn’t bring down the persuasiveness of what is written, but including it would increase the overall strength of the paper. The second paper, “When roommates were random” has some larger problems. Not mentioning marriage until the last few sentences is a very big problem, as it doesn’t allow the reader to know what the actual point of the paper is. The second problem with this paper is that they don’t use any statistics or facts to prove that they are right; this really effects the persuasiveness in my opinion.

Causal Argument

Causal Argument

Topic 1) Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS)

Neonatal abstinence syndrome is a very serious problem especially here in Kentucky. NAS is when infants are born addicted to drugs because the mother used while she was pregnant. This causes painful withdraw where these infants are kept in the neonatal intensive care unit and given pain medications or sometimes methadone to ease the effects of withdraw on the little ones. Mothers who use drugs during pregnancy cause this terrible and painful syndrome on innocent newborns.

Topic 2) Involvement increases GPA and grades

Being involved in life on and off campus is something we are told from the moment we step on campus for orientation. We are told that being involved can be so beneficial, not only in terms of GPA, but it can lead to more school pride, connections leading to future jobs and a much higher chance to have good grades. When you feel purpose and pride in an organization, it makes you much more likely to work harder in the classroom in order to stay eligible for that organization. Also, being involved makes great connections that can really effect life later and the types of jobs you get. GPA boost is a great benefit of being involved.

Causal Argument

Savannah Ballard
Eng 101
10-16-14

The three types of causal arguments are speculations about possible causes, arguments for an unexpected or surprising cause, and predictions of consequences. In the first type of argument, speculations about possible causes, the arguer will think of reasons that particular incident could have occurred. The second type of causal argument, arguments for an unexpected or surprising cause, the arguer not only considers several potential causes to an incident, but they try to persuade the readers to see the plausibility of a surprising cause. The last type of causal argument, predictions of consequences, will predict the consequences of current, planned or future events.

                My first causal claim is, Using drugs or alcohol while pregnant may be a contributing cause to infants being born with NAS because the rise in NAS cases has drastically increased over the last several years.  My second claim is, Making poor and irrational choices may be a contributing factor in unplanned teenage pregnancies because teenagers are more apt to make a decision for immediate gain rather than considering long term consequences.

            Induction is used when a causal link cannot be explained directly. This method makes us infer a general conclusion based on a limited number of specific cases. An example of this includes eating dark chocolate and getting a migraine but not when you eat white chocolate, so the dark chocolate must be causing your headaches. Another example of induction is if a woman experienced painful heartburn after eating an egg roll but not after eating strawberries, she could conclude that the egg roll caused her heartburn.