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The goal of my writing would be to educate my readers. Everyone uses electricity and energy whether or not its developed through coal plants or solar panels or natural gas plants. Because I am targeting college students, I want to inform them of where there energy is coming from and at what costs.
Plausible Reactions/Actions and Non-plausible Reactions/Actions:
A very implausible reaction that my argument could cause would be for the readers to go and stop an active fracking site. A slightly more plausible, but unlikely reaction would be for the readers to form a protest at their various campuses.
A more likely scenario would be for my argument to educate my audience so when they go to vote, as college students are usually of legal age to vote, would vote on the issues of fracking. Or if the argument really inspires them, they could petition their congressmen demanding change--but that's starting to get very unlikely.
Likely Consequences:
Because my audience is college students, I would write my argument in some form of social medial where they would have easy access to it. Because of the nature of social media, the most likely response to my text would either be to read it and close the window or share it if they felt really strongly about what I wrote.
Sharing my article is the best case scenario, its still a pretty low impact consequence. Therefore, from my text the best I can hope for is to educate more of my generation on this topic, and hopefully raise the awareness of the environment.
Audience:
Like I wrote above the audience for my piece is college students, especially those not involved in environmental studies and engineering fields. I think with this field I can really achieve my goal of trying to educate the readers with a basic, fundamental idea of what fracking is and how it is affecting the environment.
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