Andrea is aiming to persuade her audience into revoking mandatory flu vaccinations as a condition of employment for healthcare professionals. She believes that not only are the vaccines not as effective as the CDC presumes, but that forcing healthcare employees to get the flu shot is a direct violation of their human rights and it is unethical. She aims to prove the shots ineffectiveness and how accepting or denying the shot shouldn't dictate someone's career progression.
Andrea does a good job addressing opposing view points. She takes into consideration both sides of her argument and provides supporting evidence of why she believes flu shots shouldn't be mandatory as well as why they were established in the first place. She provides statistical evidence of how many studies have proved the flu shots ineffectiveness.
Andrea provides an outstanding summary of what her intent will be throughout the essay, she says where she will obtain her source and how will they support her argument. I would like to add some input to the audience portion.
"The audience is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Center for Disease Control (CDC), and healthcare agencies. This audience is …show more content…
by Barbara Loe Fisher " I find to be the strongest. It covers pretty much everything Andrea is presenting. It provides statistical evidence that reinforces her argument. Particularly where it says "80% of all flu-like illness reported during the flu season is not caused by the flu, but rather other viruses. " I personally, wasn't aware of that fact. Now I wonder how many time I haven't actually had the flu. The source also mentions ways to avoid contracting influenza even without the shot. My personal favorite, however, is where it states "Unknown whether mass use of influenza vaccine from birth to death by all Americans will influence more virulent strains, which has happened with other
Andrea does a good job addressing opposing view points. She takes into consideration both sides of her argument and provides supporting evidence of why she believes flu shots shouldn't be mandatory as well as why they were established in the first place. She provides statistical evidence of how many studies have proved the flu shots ineffectiveness.
Andrea provides an outstanding summary of what her intent will be throughout the essay, she says where she will obtain her source and how will they support her argument. I would like to add some input to the audience portion.
"The audience is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Center for Disease Control (CDC), and healthcare agencies. This audience is …show more content…
by Barbara Loe Fisher " I find to be the strongest. It covers pretty much everything Andrea is presenting. It provides statistical evidence that reinforces her argument. Particularly where it says "80% of all flu-like illness reported during the flu season is not caused by the flu, but rather other viruses. " I personally, wasn't aware of that fact. Now I wonder how many time I haven't actually had the flu. The source also mentions ways to avoid contracting influenza even without the shot. My personal favorite, however, is where it states "Unknown whether mass use of influenza vaccine from birth to death by all Americans will influence more virulent strains, which has happened with other