D#12, HW#4 -- draft an effective introduction

HW#4

*Why is this topic important? How does it affect the audience? the community? the world?*
-This topic is important because it involves life and death and bringing children into the world. The affect on the class audience is minimal because it is a younger audience; however, this argument would be very beneficial to older women thinking of starting a family.

*What is the audience's stand on the issue? How does it differ from yours? If their perspective is different from yours, how might you show respect for their perspective so that they might read yours?*
- I think the general opinion of the audience is that age is not relevant to pregnancy risk because that was my opinion before I did the research.

*What is your authority on this topic? Who are othe major "players" that write or talk about this topic? What are their strengths and points of authority? their weaknesses?*
- My authority is that I am a mother. The major authoritative figures regarding the topic are mostly doctors and sientists. Their strengths are that they specialize in womens health and prgnancy and delivery, but their weakness may be that they are too impersonal regarding such a personal topic.

*Does your audience know the topic, or its history, well? What do they already know? What do the need to know to understand your perspective?*
-I think that my audience knows the topic of pregnancy but need more info on the history and risk factors to understand the topic of advanced maternal age.

*How long will your paper be? How complex will your argument be? Do you need to give the audience a road map to prepare them for your argument?*
-My paper will be 6 to 10 pages. My argument is pretty straight forward, I am using a lot of statstics to give a reliable opinion. I do think the audience will require a road map to fully understand the topic.

Free Writing
- This topic is important because it involves life and death and bringing children into the world. Once a person has decided to bring a child into the world or to concieve a child, then protecting it becomes the most important thing in the whole world. Even in the womb the babies' health and safety are taken into consideration before any of the mothers needs. This is why this topic is so important because it concerns the babies health, as well as the mothers. The more research done and the more aware that mothers are to all risks of pregnancy at any age; the more capable we will be to protect our unborn children.