ch12 summary

At this point you need to develop a strategy for your thesis statement.  Make it reflect your purpose, role, and needs of the reader’s needs. The values, beliefs, and knowledge of the issue will now start to form and take position in your writing. Then the reasons for the position you have taken can now start to back up your thesis statement.
~I have a position in my mind of what a parent must be to be considered "good", I also have research from scholars that include charts, graphs, and survey results to back up my opinion

You can now start to select your evidence to support your position with things like details, facts, personal observations, and expert opinions. These will help the reader to proof in your ideas. You can support your ideas also with visual images, numerical data, summaries, paraphrases, ECT...

The next step is to be appealing to your readers to persuade them to take your position. You can do this with appeals to authority. This is when you take some opinion of a person in high authority and basically say “well president Obama agrees”, so that must make it right... another form is through appeal of emotion. This is when you get them through feelings towards what you are saying. Next is an appeal to principles, values and beliefs. Then there are also appeals to character, and an appeal to logic.