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Ayleana Crabtree
Mr. Salow
English 11
November 19, 2016
Research Proposal
It is important to understand and be able to identify when I am being manipulated by an
author who is trying to play off of my emotions. In order to remain a freethinker who follows
their own ideas and values, I need to have the capacity to catch on to other writers trickery
before it takes effect. I should be able to recognize the difference between actual facts and the
delusional babbling that some authors may want me to accept as fact. That is my purpose in
researching the topic of homeschooling. I want to identify the many ways that writers could try
to persuade me and discuss the effectiveness of their approaches.
I plan to discover whether the journals and articles that I am utilizing try to persuade their
readers through excessive use of pathos, logos, ethos, or a combination of the three. That is, I
hope to see whether they appeal to a readers emotions, argue using ethics, or if they instead use
viable statistics. By doing this research, I want to see what tactics are most commonly used to
persuade readers, and I want to understand just how effective those tactics are. To achieve this, I
will be looking at how authors organize their thoughts on homeschooling, and I will try to
identify common patterns in their varying methods of persuasion.

Work Cited

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Howell, Charles. "Hostility or Indifference? The marginalization of homeschooling in the
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Kunzman, Robert. "Homeschooling in Indiana: A Closer Look. Education Policy Brief. Volume
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Lips, Dan, and Evan Feinberg. "Homeschooling: A Growing Option in American Education.
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Noel, Amber, Patrick Stark, and Jeremy Redford. "Parent and Family Involvement in Education,
from
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(2015). Web. 16 Nov. 2016.
Ray, Brian D. "Homeschool Progress Report 2009: Academic Achievement and Demographics."
HSLDA (2009). Web. 16 Nov. 2016.

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Reindl, Travis. "Homeschooling in the United States: Growth. And Growing Pains." College and
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Sorey, Kellie, and Molly H. Duggan. "Homeschoolers Entering Community Colleges:
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2016.
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