Do you think Qasim made an effective argument in “Avoiding Misconceptions…”? If so, what do you think the author did particularly well? If not, what could the author have done better? Your response should be three to seven sentences long.
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Qasim begins his argument perfectly illustrating a picture of America becoming home to many immigrants and detailing how immigrants are what shaped America. He also perfectly describes the creation and growth of racial and ethnic prejudice stemming from none other than the people we put in charge of running this country. Briefly speaks about refugees just seeking asylum to escape the harsh “politics” of their home countries. He also briefly addresses immigrants simply wanting to come here hoping to better their lives and build something for their families in other words coming here to live the “American Dream”. Qasim introduces a brilliant sub-argument that explains immigrants actually supply more jobs than they take away and goes into detail about the average employment rate of immigrant-owned businesses. Overall Qasim wrote a perfect argument essay by creating a perfect introduction and followed it up with well-presented sub-arguments to further prove his argument that immigrants are beneficial to society.
I like that you pointed out the subargument Qasim made about how immigrants create more jobs than they take away. Just be careful using words like “perfect”. It’s hard to say that anyone has created a “perfect” argument.
I believe that Qasim created a strong and effective argument because from the beginning he explained that the United States was a country made up of diverse cultures, establishing with evidence from various sources that immigrants are an important source of income for the American economy. Despite the fact that many US citizens, media and politicians created stereotypes that immigrants come to steal job opportunities and use state money. Qasim proved that these stereotypes are wrong. By providing data, Qasim showed the number of jobs offered by companies with immigrant owners. Also another stereotype that Qasim denied was that all immigrants coming from poor and violent countries were criminals and that they harm society. Once again, Qasim taught that the average of Americans committing a crime was higher compared to immigrant people. He also added that most of the immigrant people who were in jail were convicted of immigration problems and not violence. To conclude, Qasim explained that we must inform ourselves and not fall into the bad stereotypes about immigrants. Most of the people who migrate only seek to fulfill the American dream, many seek to escape the violence of their country and others seek to provide a better future for their family.
It seems that you felt Qasim’s appeal to logos was strong, Daniela. You referenced a lot of the facts and figures that Qasim shared.
I think that Qasim made an effective argument because he describes the importance of immigrants to America. Some of these immigrants came to run away from their violence from home country, but the main point that people immigrate to America is to increase their income to provide a better life for their family. Qasim explained that America is a multicultural, which satisfy people’s ‘American dreams’. This is a wonderful argument, he give enough information and examples to support his point.
I would have liked to have had you point out some more specific things that Qasim did in his writing that made it effective, Jia. Try to keep you compliments and critiques of work more specific when possible.
Personally I do believe he Maes great argument since he illustrates that America is built on the immigrants and how it become a home for lots of them. He shows how immigrants were treated with prejudice both ethic and racial when they were the one key for country and overall America consists of immigrants who built it. He explains that immigrants have no bad intention to the country and simply want to find a home where is no place for bad government and no prejudice. He also mentioned that immigrants just want a better life for their family. He mentions that crimes committed by “native borns” are higher that immigrants killing the stereotype that immigrants only bring bad and are violent. He also faded away stereotype that immigrants come to steal work created by politics and social media and explained by showing how many immigrant people own companies with work and they create new jobs instead of taking away. He showed the other side of immigrant people no one wants to see due to misleading beliefs. His argument is greatly explained and used a lot of facial information no noe can avoid picturing immigrant correctly in true colors.
I believe that you meant that he uses a lot of “factual” information, Lidiia. I agree. I think his appeal to logos is the strongest part of his essay.
In my opinion, Qasim provides compelling arguments because she states many reasons immigrants are beneficial to America and gives justification against immigrants’ stereotypes. For example, Qasim mentioned that the media contributes to immigrants’ stereotypes; I agree with this argument because many people watch TV, and in the news, the press often reinforces biased statements about the immigrants. Also, many people believe that immigrants are a hindrance to the prosperity of America, which Qasim argues is not true since immigrants “enhance and diversify culture, and commit even fewer crimes than U.S.-born populations.” Moreover, Qasim mentioned that many people think immigrants are a disadvantage because citizens say immigrants are stealing jobs; the reality is that many immigrants are undocumented. Thus they are not allowed to work in too many jobs as legal citizens do. Therefore their job opportunity is limited compared to Americans. However, although their job opportunities are limited, they work very hard for a better future.
A key word that you used here, Erika, is “reasons”. He very clearly gives many logical reasons (or makes many good subarguments) to support his thesis.
Qasim made an effective argument because he clearly stated his thesis about the different ways immigrants have contributed to the American society. He does this well by providing context to the topic on how some founding fathers were immigrants. He also divided his essay into sub-arguments such as the way immigrants provide more jobs.
I like that you noticed how he divided his piece into subarguments (though, I am not sure I completely understood the last sentence you wrote).
I think Qasim does make a very strong and effective argument in “Avoiding Misconceptions…”. In first paragraph, Qaism described how immigrants were being treated poorly, when they actually helped a lot in shaping the US. In body paragraphs, Qaism states the fact that 35% of Americans believe that most of the immigrants are in the US illegally(Qaism) might surprised most of the readers. Qaism also described some stereotypes that natives had on immigrants. For instance, natives think they were not able to have a job because immigrants took their jobs away, and natives think immigrants are from those poor, violent countries. Qaism defend immigrants by stating the fact that natives have higher crime rate than immigrants have. Overall Qaism did a great job on providing an effective argument and supporting his/her idea by providing decent facts.
I agree that Qasim used very good evidence to support his points. This is perhaps the strongest aspect of his work.
I believe that Qasim made an effective argument in “Avoiding Misconceptions”. As he is able to not only say that immigrants are less to commit a crime in the U.S. but he also supports it with an example. Such as the seven immigrants that signed the constitution.
I agree that it is interesting to consider that it was immigrants who signed the constitution. This particular point was well made.