Fact based argument
Identification of our company, imagined audience and the project context:
Our company is called Meals on Wheels. Founded in 2010, we are a non-profit organization aiming to deliver homemade, fresh, and nutritious food to the sick and elderly. Beyond providing for the needs of physical hunger, we also open up to relationships with the meal recipients and minister to their moral and spiritual needs. In this project, we are addressing our argument to a group of representatives from corporate companies in the country. In 2011 we successfully held a fundraising event which helped us raise enough funding to support the activities of our organization. We used the funding to buy the healthiest vegetables from local farmers and purchase only the naturally raised meat. While our goal is to fight hunger in the country, we also maintain an eco-friendly outlook. A clear statement of purpose for the argument After the financial crisis in 2008, the global economy has plunged into the so-called “economic stagnation” and hence the donations we receive is gradually decreasing. We want to increase public awareness about the growing number of hungry people every day. So, the main purpose of our argument is to inform and convince the audience about the problem and collect as many donations as possible. Therefore the claim we make in this argument is that the companies should donate to us. We show them the hunger statistics in the country as a reason for the claim. The clear warrant in this argument is that by donating to us, we can provide healthy food to those who are in a desperate position. How our project is aligned with the fact-based argumentation strategies and needs: As Everything’s an Argument (Lunsford and Ruszkiewicz, 2011) explains, “Factual arguments come in many varieties, but they all try to establish whether something is or is not so” (p. 153).The first thing we needed to do was to find a topic that is arguable or debatable. Our argument starts with
Our company is called Meals on Wheels. Founded in 2010, we are a non-profit organization aiming to deliver homemade, fresh, and nutritious food to the sick and elderly. Beyond providing for the needs of physical hunger, we also open up to relationships with the meal recipients and minister to their moral and spiritual needs. In this project, we are addressing our argument to a group of representatives from corporate companies in the country. In 2011 we successfully held a fundraising event which helped us raise enough funding to support the activities of our organization. We used the funding to buy the healthiest vegetables from local farmers and purchase only the naturally raised meat. While our goal is to fight hunger in the country, we also maintain an eco-friendly outlook. A clear statement of purpose for the argument After the financial crisis in 2008, the global economy has plunged into the so-called “economic stagnation” and hence the donations we receive is gradually decreasing. We want to increase public awareness about the growing number of hungry people every day. So, the main purpose of our argument is to inform and convince the audience about the problem and collect as many donations as possible. Therefore the claim we make in this argument is that the companies should donate to us. We show them the hunger statistics in the country as a reason for the claim. The clear warrant in this argument is that by donating to us, we can provide healthy food to those who are in a desperate position. How our project is aligned with the fact-based argumentation strategies and needs: As Everything’s an Argument (Lunsford and Ruszkiewicz, 2011) explains, “Factual arguments come in many varieties, but they all try to establish whether something is or is not so” (p. 153).The first thing we needed to do was to find a topic that is arguable or debatable. Our argument starts with