Persuasive Essay Outline-

Penn State Women’s Soccer: Give us a Chance

 

Rhetorical Situation:

Kairos: Our success in the past NCAA national tournament and Big Ten Championships.

Civic Issue: Changing attitudes about female athletics in comparison to male athletics.

Audience: Penn State student body.

Medium: Article in Onward State.

 

Intro:

-state common inaccurate perceptions of female sports

-contradict these statements

-introduce success of PSU women’s soccer & own involvement in collegiate athletics

-this will establish ethos

 

Thesis: While female collegiate athletics are growing and improving, the portion of the population that is not directly involved is not showing their support and important advances have yet to be made.  Do your part; you can change the attitude toward female collegiate athletics by supporting Penn State Women’s Soccer.

 

Body:

-Connect intro to current attitude toward collegiate female athletics (% allocated to football)

-describe why this needs to change

 

Body:

-use statistics of growth of female collegiate sports (Title IX)

-establish logos

-state why these changes still aren’t enough

 

Body:

-introduce success of PSU women’s soccer

-describe how this success should make supporting the team a good investment

-use enthusiasm and joy of winning to establish pathos

 

Body:

-relate supporting PSU women’s soccer to doing civic duty of changing attitude toward female athletic sports (we want to match men in equality in collegiate sports)

 

Body:

-discuss further positive benefits of supporting PSU women’s soccer and therefore women’s collegiate athletics in general

 

Conclusion:

-discuss the possible future of collegiate women’s athletics and relation to pro sports (WPSL) if attitudes continue to change

 

6^th Paragraph:

-pride in PSU women’s soccer

-discuss in detail accomplishments

-draw on community and facts of success to bolster support

 

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Here’s the deal.  Even if you don’t like soccer that much or still have doubts about female collegiate athletics, you owe it to your school to attend the events of Penn State Women’s Soccer.  It’s a matter of pride.  Do you think Michigan State or Ohio State would look the other way if their women’s soccer teams were the runners up of the National Championship?  I don’t think so.  You wouldn’t possibly let those other Big Ten Schools show more pride than us would you?  Then let’s start showing some more support people!  Fourteen consecutive Big Ten Championships, a National Final appearance, and a 10-0-2 home record should be enough to rowdy up any Penn State student no matter his or her athletic preferences.  Do your part; change the way our student body views Penn State Women’s Soccer and you’ll be changing the attitude toward female collegiate athletics as well.