Argumentative Presentation

The issue that my persuasive presentation focused on is if children should be vaccinated. My presentation is intended to be viewed by parents and future parents. After researching the topic, I chose to argue the point that parents should vaccinate their children, with the supporting arguments ‘immunizations are safe and effective’, ‘do not cause autism or lower the immune system’ and parents should immunize their children to prevent the spread of immunization-prevented-diseases and to protect children who may not be able to receive the appropriate immunizations.

I have chosen to begin my presentation with ‘Despite the large amount of scientific data urging parents to have their children immunized there continues to be parents who are falling into the bottomless pit of misinformation on the Internet and are discarding to immunize their children’, in order to engage my audience. I believe this strategy would be appropriate as it may make parents begin to think that they may be doing something incorrect in not immunizing their children and therefore read further into my piece.

To support my arguments I included a case study. I used this case study as it outlined the consequences of not immunizing your children. Therefore, it supplies my audience, parents and future parents, with real life evidence,

I ended my presentation with the rhetorical question ‘why are parents failing to immunize their children?’ I did this in order to make my audience think about the entire presentation and comprehensively contemplate the argument surrounding parents failing to immunize their