Reading Response #4 - Botist

Botists argument was talking about the media and its faults at polling the minorities. He talks of the news organizations not interviewing an entire population including the sub-population, but more that they are just polling the population in general which leaves out a significant percent of the population that happens to be minorities. He states the counterarguments about polling minorities being much more expensive since the use of translators and the time to find enough minorities willing to contribute their time. This argument of his is both evaluative and a proposal. It is evaluative because it gives the reader information about the polling that many would be unlikely to know. It gives a better meaning to the information throughout the argument. This is also a persuasive argument because of what Botist says towards the end of his argument. He says, “take this effort to the local level, where people of all racial and ethnic groups live and work in proximity and need to understand the views they do and do not share.”Botist makes a very intriguing argument that I have to agree with. In order to really show accurate results, the polls must incorporate everyone in them especially the minorities who are now in the spotlight have differed views from the Caucasians and each other. The argument made shows a significant amount of information which really helps in making the reader agree with the argument. By talking of the different statistical data Botist can easily persuade the reader.