SUMMARY: In Jason Richwine’s article “Why We Shouldn’t Raise Teacher Pay” published in July of 2014, he argued that teachers do not deserve a raise and their salaries should continue to remain the same. Richwine first discussed that a number of teachers do not want to be educators by stating that finding qualified teachers is becoming harder. He then made the claim that teachers already earned too much and argued that teachers do not need a raise. Lastly, he argued the idea that raising teacher pay will create lower quality teachers. Richwine’s purpose for writing this article and using the Toulmin method was to show the flaws of raising salaries for teachers. He seems to have an educated audience of future or current teachers who believe …show more content…
By the author using factual sources, he made it so people view him as a credible source and will agree with his opinion. Richwine first discussed the topic of finding qualified teacher and how hard the process is getting and that raising the salary was not be able to resolve the problem, “Even without the tenure obstacle, putting the best teachers in the classroom is a more challenging problem than many reformers will admit. One of the most common reformist prescriptions is raising teacher pay to attract stronger applicants. The logic seems simple, even obvious. But raising teacher pay will not work.” Richwine then moved to the topic of the problem that may be the result of raising salaries. The major problem would be that a large amount of people would be attracted to teaching careers, however they would only be in it for the money and not focused on educating the future generation. This article is an example of using the Toulmin model because of the format of his argument. Richwine first gave his ideas and his warrants, then he presented his solution or claim, and then he gave a counter claim to his claim. By Richwine using all these steps, he successfully used the Toulmin model to argue his point of teaching not needing a