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Blog 1
I found a YouTube clip titled Ron Paul Ad – The Press. The commercial is about a person asking the same questions to the different people in office. The first question is why it is ok for the country to be sending factories overseas and the second question is why our borders are not [...]

1. Authority is having some knowledge of the claim and being able to display confidence when writing about it.
Emotion is being able to display some type of emotion in the writing that will allow the reader to be able to feel connected with the reading.
Logic is the use of strong evidence and explanations to support [...]

Part One
A claim is a statement that needs to be supported by an argument.
Support is reasons that allow the audience to believe that a certain claim is true. This could also be considered a part of the argument.
Evidence is factual information that can be used in the argument to prove the claim.
Explanation is a description [...]