Databases:
| Name of database Facts + Statistics: Teen drivers |
| What is the purpose of the work? *The purpose of this database is to shed light on the amount of car accidents that teenage drivers are responsible for. |
| Summary of its content *This database provides statistics for the car accidents that teenagers are responsible for. It compares the stats between different ages, time periods, and causes of the accidents (i.e. intoxication). |
| Intended audience * The intended audience is the general population. |
| Relevance to the topic * This database advocates for the legal driving age being raised due to the amount of teenage accidents throughout the years. |
| Unique features of the material *The website that provides the data discusses the topic teen driving and offers a solution. |
| Strengths, weaknesses, or biases *The strengths of this database is that the data for each topic is concise and easy to understandable. |
| Name of database Teen driving facts and statistics 2022 |
| What is the purpose of the work? *The purpose of this database is to show the main causes of accidents for teenage drivers so that they are safer. |
| Summary of its content *The database provides facts and statistics on teenage driving. It also has extra details following the various causes of the accidents to show people why it is important to acknowledge them. |
| Intended audience *The intended audience are teens and adults. |
| Relevance to the topic *This data base shows stats that prove that teen drivers are more dangerous than any other age group that drives. |
| Unique features of the material *This database includes a time table that shows the time of day that is most dangerous for teens to drive and the least dangerous time for teens to drive. |
| Strengths, weaknesses, or biases *The strength of this database is that it explains why teen driving is so dangerous, and gives tips for teens to be safe. |
| Name of database Teen drivers by the numbers: population, risks, and accidents |
| What is the purpose of the work? *The purpose is meant to inform readers on the risks that teen drivers take while they drive. |
| Summary of its content *This database gives stats on fatalities and accidents that teen drivers are involved in. It also shows the rate of teen car accidents throughout the years to show the reader how much it has changed. |
| Intended audience *The intended audience are teenagers and adults. |
| Relevance to the topic *This database is relevant to my topic because it talks about the same risks that I have in my essay about teenagers drivers. |
| Unique features of the material *This database has a map of the U.S. that compares the number of car crashes of teenagers with each other. |
| Strengths, weaknesses, or biases *This database does not have any biases and quickly gives me valuable information. |
Articles:
| Name of article Unpopular opinion: The Legal Driving Age should be Increased |
| What is the purpose of the work? *This article’s purpose is to inform it’s readers why the legal driving age in the U.S. should be increased. The article has many points as to why this this opinion should become reality. |
| Summary of its content *The article starts by talking about the debate about the legal driving age. The writer divides her article into different sections that provide data and experience |
| Intended audience *The intended audience is safety experts, politicians, teens, and drivers of all ages |
| Relevance to the topic *This article has useful statistics and topics that are related to the overall problem of teenage driving. |
| Unique features of the material *This article has links to all the evidence that it uses. This allows the reader to see the data for themselves and come to their own conclusions. |
| Strengths, weaknesses, or biases *The strength of this article is the credibility writer. She includes the experience of teens that she knows in her article to show why teenage driving is a big problem. |
| Name of article Why We Should Raise The Minimum Driving Age to 21 |
| What is the purpose of the work? *This article’s purpose is to explain why it is beneficial to increase the legal driving age. |
| Summary of its content *The article starts by explaining the trouble that the government has with improving driving standards and then introduces her thesis. She states that teens have the right to drive a dangerous vehicle but don’t have the rights to do a lot of other things until adulthood. Afterward, she explains how increasing the driving age will benefit driving safety by using scientific studies and comparing the U.S. driving age with other countries. |
| Intended audience *The intended audience is government workers and drivers of all ages |
| Relevance to the topic *This article supports my argument with facts and knowledgeable suggestions from the writer, and provides insight on the argument against raising the legal driving age. |
| Unique features of the material *This article has links to all the evidence that it uses. This allows the reader to see the data for themselves and come to their own conclusions. |
| Strengths, weaknesses, or biases *This article contains bias against men when talking about driving statistics. |
| Name of article The Minimum Driving Age Should be Raised to 18 |
| What is the purpose of the work? *The purpose of this article is to explain pros and cons that will result from increasing the legal driving age. |
| Summary of its content *This article opens up by introducing the topic of raising the legal driving age and the purpose for doing so. Then it provides 15 “yes” points and 15 “no” points to each reason that addresses the outcomes of raising the driving age. |
| Intended audience *The intended audience is teen drivers, adult drivers, and old drivers. |
| Relevance to the topic *This article provides arguments that agree with my side, and provides arguments of the opposite perspective. I can use this article to talk about why the driving age shouldn’t be raised. |
| Unique features of the material *This article divides it’s arguments into red and green categories to make it clear to the reader when the writer is going to support or go against a reason toward the main debate topic. |
| Strengths, weaknesses, or biases *This article uses bias in the form of the writer using her own experiences with driving as support for her arguments against raising the legal driving age. She treats her own experience as fact without the perspective of other teens or adults. |
Websites:
| Name of Website American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry |
| What is the purpose of the work? *This site’s purpose is to get parents to understand why their teens act in impulsive ways and explain why. It wants parents and authority figures to anticipate teenagers’ behavior so that they can handle it better. |
| Summary of its content *The website starts by stating that most parents don’t understand why their teens act off of impulse and says that adults and teens differently. The website explains teenage impulses through biological facts and lists tendencies that are normal with teens. |
| Intended audience *The intended audience is parents and adult authority figures. |
| Relevance to the topic *The irrational behaviors that this website talks about makes teens riskier on the road, which supports my argument about increasing the legal driving age. |
| Unique features of the material *The website provides tips for how to deal with kids and adolescents properly with certain topics. |
| Strengths, weaknesses, or biases *The weakness of this website is that it’s facts on the teenage brain are too short. Also it only has one page that talks about this topic. |
| Name of Website National Safety Council |
| What is the purpose of the work? *The purpose of this page is to inform it’s audience on the dangers of driving in the night, and how to manage the risks that come with driving in the night |
| Summary of its content *This page introduces the dangers that it will be talking about regarding driving in the night. Then it describes how the night effects a drivers senses and transitions into a concise list of methods that a driver can use to be safer in the night. |
| Intended audience *The intended audience is drivers that drive frequently in the night during weekends and busy roads. |
| Relevance to the topic *Driving in the night is a factor that contributes to a large number of car accidents. This supports my stance on teenagers being too inexperienced to handle dangerous situations on the road. |
| Unique features of the material *This website uses surveys and data from other safety associations as evidence. |
| Strengths, weaknesses, or biases *This page strength is that provides many solutions to the dangers of driving in the night. |