So I recently wrote a paper on the impact prayer has on the daily life of college students. This paper, while on a topic which is important to me, is one I’ve been struggling with, so I’m going to write down some thoughts about the paper from an outsider’s point of view.
The author claims that prayer will lead to a happier life as college students. He says this is so because prayer will increase your focus and enable you to gain help from God. The audience for this paper was college students who don’t care about religion. It is important for this paper to pick those who are nether religious (who pray anyways) or those who are atheistic.
This paper is trying to get the students to increase prayer in order that they can have a better life as college students. It does this by saying they could get focus in life.
The author develops a feeling of emotion through the story of how he helped his friend. The story is effective, but his emotional feeling lacks the logic behind it that would lead to change for an average college student. Anyone can claim a miracle from God, and that is hard to prove in the minds of some people the reality—simply because an experience can always be termed a coincidence, As a college student, it lacks the facts and figures needed to show that prayer really does improve focus and helps improve lifestyle
The information expressed in the paper is typical of the kind of argument made by those who propose this point of view. However, it feels like it was written to help those who already believe, instead of the indifferent.
This paper is not that effective. While it accurately asserts a point of view and clearly takes a stand, it doesn’t take it far enough. It gets lost in the logistics of arguing a point and doesn’t end up making a very effective argument
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