Your Final Argument: Topic: Lowering the Age to be Allowed to Legally Consume Alcohol
There are three policy problems that are currently facing this administration. You have been asked to write a case on that problem. As you know, a case is an argument for or against a claim.
Create a claim of policy. Make sure it is worded against the status quo
Focus on the issues that describe the problem, can the problem be fixed within the system and the ramifications that would result.
Create one sentence contentions.
State which side of the claim you will be arguing.
Prove your contentions with evidence and reasoning.
Below is the problem.
Lowering the Drinking Age
Background:Background for Lowering the Drinking Age
Last month, more than 100 college presidents signed a petition calling for a debate on whether the minimum legal drinking age should be lowered from 21 to 18.
The statement says in part: “Our experience as college and university presidents convinces us that twenty-one is not working. A culture of dangerous, clandestine ‘binge-drinking’ — often conducted off-campus — has developed.”
