Your Argument

   The topic of my persuasive speech is abolishing school uniforms, and I would characterize my arguments as more emotional because I use words that would rouse students’ feeling of banning school uniforms. As for result, there’s less logical and ethical appeals, so my arguments are less balanced. I didn’t use a lot of date for either supporting or defending my arguments, and I only use ethical appeal in the very end while saying it’s wrong for schools to tell us what to wear since we should have the rights for our clothing. My supporting arguments are that by choosing what we want to wear every day, we can create our unique style and develop skill of managing clothing. Moreover, our rights of choosing what to wear freely shouldn’t be violated. In addition, the best thing among all is that we can buy new clothes. My counter arguments are that students shouldn’t waste time on their outfit, especially for seniors who are under great stress of college application and heavy load of school work. Some students don’t have enough money to buy new clothes, so they would think that not having uniforms is inconvenient for them.

I think there is something about the subject of my argument that lends itself to one kind of appeal more than another. For example, I said that students can buy lots of new clothes if school uniforms are abolished, and I think this definitely appeals to their desires, which is emotion. In addition, the point of using time wisely and not having enough money are also emotional appeals.