Your writing assignment is to convince the President that one particular environmental concern should have highest priority.
Some general guidelines are available. This is an argumentative paper and the logic must be readily apparent. For our class you will be required to use one specific form of argumentation and to organize the paper in a very specific format.
The first paragraph of the paper should contain the argument stated in such a way that if the premises are true, then the conclusion must be true. The required form for the argument given below will ensure that is the case. The body of the paper should show that the premises are true. In the second paragraph there should be support for the first premise (the conditional premise). The next paragraph (or paragraphs) should support the second premise. The last paragraph of the paper should repeat the argument given in the first paragraph and say that since the premises are true and since the logic is good, the conclusion must be true.
The required form for the argument is:
A specific example could be: If acid rain is the only environmental concern that threatens life, then acid rain should be the number one environmental concern. Acid rain is the only environmental concern that threatens life. Therefore, acid rain should be the number one environmental concern.
Other ways to form an argument are given below for information purposes only.