Workshopping Essay #1-Lindsey G.

Your audience is the hunters, the people who are for hunting being used as a source of food and not sport. The audience you are writing to will support you and your rant about why hunting is a good thing. You are explaining to them what factors contribute to the good of hunting. You give examples showing how the use of wild game as a food source or trading source is needed and successful. You give explanations as to why people hunt and why it is a way of survival and not just fun such as, the hunters may live way out of town and it is cheaper for them to hunt.
Your main reasons for the support of hunting are the obvious necessity of food (survival), that hunting is organized and taken very seriously, it is a good way to control game populations, and that it is much better than the slaughterhouses across America with their hormone injected animals. You have 3 to 4 good solid arguments. I think that you should research the slaughterhouses a little more and perhaps give a statistic or two on the amount of killings per year or the numbers on the aerial wolf killings.
For counterarguments you talk a little about the ethics that anti-hunters see in hunting, but other than that, there really isn't much. You can easily expand on this because there are so many different opinions and counterarguments you can use. Find a few and toss em' in here! Make sure to adequately address the counterarguments though.
The transitions throughout your essay are a bit weak, but that is an easy fix. Try to make each paragraph flow into the next one and make the work as a whole play off of the opening paragraph with your thesis statement. You might try starting with a counterargument and then working into how that is reasonable, but wrong. You repeat yourself a couple times, so I would read through it a few times out loud...or backwards, whichever works best and catch those small errors. You are doing awesome, but like I said, expand a little more on all of your reasons and give some stats!
Your introduction is good, it could be a little more catchy, but the definition of hunting is a good way to bring the readers in. You do not seem to have a conclusion, but you are definitely on the right track and you can whip one out easy with the amount of information you have.
Keep up the good writing! You will change those anti-hunters to gun-slingin' cowboys in no time!

-Logan Lyle