Proposal: The Guidelines

-Improving programs for inner-city teens
-Audience: Bridgeport community
-Speaker: Myself (establish ethos by talking about how I have seen how these programs would be beneficial and how without them kids end up going onto the wrong path)
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Relationship: We need better programs for inner-cty teens within the Bridgeport community, which I have noticed needs to be improved through going to school in Bridgeport and my relationship with people who would have benefitted from such a program.

-Genre of Argument:  Open conversation with the Bridgeport community published in the local city newspaper

-Purpose: To lay down the groundwork for a positive future for teens transitioning from middle to high school.

-Argument of Proposal

-Major Claim/Plan: As a community we need to improve the programs for our youth so that they will want to participate and it will be constructive and successful in keeping them out of violence, drugs, bad stuff in general.

-Ethos: I have seen how these would be beneficial and what happens without them or when they arent successful (the programs), pathos to drive people to action and make it more personal, logos- how often is this happening? is this really needed? how are they not successful? rates? specific instances?

-Major changes (so far), I think I may now point out how existing programs need to be improved rather than proposing to create entirely new programs