Tiffany Harlan

Dear Dr. H, For some reason, I could not copy and paste the rubric chart so I will just talk about which ones I chose for myself. I liked doing this working draft a lot more than the other working drafts that we have experimented with because it was kind of like a traditional paper but still different to where I could draw in my audience with a different look instead of paragraphs long of information. For my information I thought I included a good amount without boring my readers and without repeating myself. We didnt work on this working draft long so I feel like I do not have much process work to show for it. I feel like I balanced out my opinion with the information that I found online and I made sure my audience understood my information. I do not think I have many errors in this working draft with spelling or punctuation but I did tend to write in third person, trying to make it more personal for the reader but I dont think I was supposed to do that. That is just the only way I felt like I could get out what I wanted to say. Thanks! Tiffany Harlan

Tiffany Harlan

This is process work on how I wanted to do my paper and what I wanted to include in it. I chose to make sub headings so that it wasnt a traditional paper and appealed more to my audience.

Tiffany Harlan

Drinking Age 21 -> 18

What?
Since 1984, the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) went from the age 18 to 21. Lowering the drinking age to 18 would simply be safer because 18 year olds are not going to stop drinking they are simply behind doors instead of out in the open in legal and supervised environments.

Who?
This argument mainly pertains to college campuses because most students on campus are under age 21. But this debate also has an effect on people older than 18 there really is no age cut off where people begin to not care about the minimum legal drinking age. Eighteen year olds tend to hang out with older adults because of the college environment and work force. When they finally become around it, they want to do it and will do it illegally if necessary.

Why?
When a person reaches the age of 18, they become legal adults. At this time you are out in the real world alone. No more living at home under your parents roof, it is time to start your own life and make your own decisions. Which includes being able to vote, serve on a jury, enlist in the military, get married file a lawsuit, be sued or be convicted as an adult. You can also buy tobacco products, apply for a credit card, secure a loan and lease or buy a house. You can do and make all of these decisions as an ADULT except for buy alcohol.

What to do?
Anyone can go onto the internet and find thousands of petitions out there that people have started that also believe that the MLDA should be 18. You can sign and submit as many as you would like, every one of them count. You could also start your own petitions with your point of view on why the drinking age should be 18.

Works Cited

Tiffany Harlan "U.S. Congress: Lower the legal drinking age to 18." Change.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Nov 2013. <http://www.change.org/petitions/us-congress-lower-the-legal-drinking-age-to-18>. Yellin, Alex. "Lower the Minimum Legal Drinking Age to 18." forcechange.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Nov 2013. <http://forcechange.com/21101/lower-the-minimum-legal-drinking-age-to-18/>. WAGENAAR, Alexander. "Effects of Minimum Drinking Age Laws: Review and Analyses of the Literature from 1960 to 2000." collegedrinkingprevention.gov. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 23 09 2005. Web. 12 Nov 2013. <http://forcechange.com/21101/lower-the-minimum-legaldrinking-age-to-18/>.