And SO IT Ends

I will be analyzing on article by Dave Mann appearing in March 30, 2009 in The Texas Observer blog entitled “And So It Ends.” The author of this article describes how the State Board of Education has proceeding to alter state science standard. The State Board of Education will not require educators to teach the strengths and weaknesses of the theory of evolution, but educators must encourage students to critically analyze all scientific theories. For Mann it not what the Board members did, but how they did it.
He argues that the Board members were supposed to be working on these science standards for a year. For Mann it took more than ten minutes for all members to understand the proposal. Mann is shock to see Board members debating topics such as world choice in the very last day. For the author not only the amendments were inconsistent and poor spelling but also it took a while to get the job done. Poor spelling he says made the proposals hard to read. Mann argues that the amendments were difficult to read, because they were hand-written. His supported his case with the copy of one hand-written amendment proposal considers as a key amendment.
The reader does not need to be familiar of this article to know that it affiliated to liberal blog. Mann argues against social conservative when his said at the end of his article “Again, there may be some maneuvering room there for social conservatives in the future debates, but not much.” Dave Mann doesn’t made successful argument about how the State Board of Education has proceeding to alter state science standard. The text is mal organized with too much paragraphs, and spacing. To make a strong argument, Mann needs to support his argument with credible references sources instead of left-leaning blog (Texas Freedom Network). His also need to make his case by strong evidence and facts instead of general statement. I disagree with this article in two points: first the blog is intended to the social liberal audience and the article it not seen “fair or balance” to allow critical thinking. Second the lack of strong arguments pushes this article back. To make strong argument Mann need to avoid general statement, and use credible source to support his case. In this argument against social conservative, no one doesn’t need to be expert to know that the intended audience is social liberal class.