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6.2 Discussion
Asian students working on laptops

Objective:
Compare, contrast and assess argument outlines for strengths and weaknesses
Instructions:

First, read the attached RA Outlines Samples.docx RA Outlines Samples.docx – Alternative Formats

Second, formulate one weakness and one strength for each of the two outlines.

Third, decide which outline is the stronger of the two and explain your decision.

ANSWER

Social networking has no doubt changed humanity on multiple levels. The biggest being closing down the communication gaps that initially existed because of geographical proximity. This has to be the strongest advantage of social media sites and applications. Without leaving a location, it is possible to find out what is going on at the other side of the globe and using this information to cause an impact in my current location. Compared to the age of letters and even much later, the age of the radio telephone, this is a humongous leap forward. However, like everything else, the dangers of social media are relatively significant with one of them being the loss of data privacy. The risk of data privacy as is described in the outline comes from governments, organisations and even individuals. Organisations use this information for their marketing purposes and to increase their revenues while individuals could use this information to track and cause harm to unknowing social media users.

The progress that women have made over the years can barely be overstated. From gaining the right to vote barely a century ago to assuming one of the largest offices in the country. Women have made a lot of progress in the last century both in America and everywhere in the world including the developing nations. In England, for example, the story of Mary Shelly the author of the series of novels, Frankenstein, the Modern Day Prometheus, tells of a time where women were not trusted to possess their own ideas. Today women like J.K. Rowling are legends in the same field and in the same country. However, still today in the corporate world, women make 70% for what men collect in benefits. The inequality in income is still a reality in America and most nations even the developed ones. From the outline, the Pay check Fairness Act is the place to begin to reconstruct this problem.