Comprehensive Argument Analysis Coursework Example | Topics and Well Written Essays - 750 words

Comprehensive Argument Analysis - Coursework Example Finally she opposes the National Council for Adoption’s statistics for numbers of potential adoptive parents by suggests they might even be including Hilary Clinton amongst them. Exaggerated statements of this kind indicate a clear bias against the trustworthiness of the National Council for Adoption. The author suggests that encouraging people to choose adoption would involve coercion and bullying, using the 1950s as her example. However she fails to give real and concrete examples of how this would happen today. She fails to explore the possibility that adoption rates could be improved by greater availability of information and establishing it not as a shameful choice but one which a woman could be happy to make. Her argument is therefore very vague. I do not find this source credible. The tone is too bombastic and the author sets herself up as too opposed to the government to give her arguments credibility. She also attacks opposition statistics without providing any of her own to make a strong opposing case. The premises are that the statistics cited by the National Adoption Council (which argues that 1-2 million Americans want to adopt) are flawed. This is because the National Adoption Council includes in this figure anyone who even phones to enquiry about adoption. She concludes that the figure is ‘bound to be’ much smaller using the premise that only 2,193 Chinese baby girls were adopted by Americans in 1995 I believe the author’s premise that not all people who phone for information can be considered as serious adoptive parents is sound and so the statistics for potential adoptive parents is over-stated. However because she does not provide a statistical source of her own she has no way of knowing whether the ‘true’ figure would meet the demand or not. Her citation of Chinese girls adoptions to support her case is also weak and a non sequitur. A white couple may not want to