John Hopkins attackman Wells Stanwick in a game against Maryland.
John Hopkins vs. Virginia NCAA tournament |
"Hot Streak Continues for John Hopkins men's lacrosse in 19-7 NCAA tournament win over Virginia" Preston opens is column by glorifying John Hopkins recent playing. He states "John Hopkins doesn't need to put together pieces of video for highlight tape. All the blue jays need to do is break out the film of their opening round play off game against Virginia on Sunday." Claiming that The Blue Jays had all their golden plays in one game. The Jays scored easy goals on Virginia by using "the hidden ball trick" meaning that the opposing team had absolute no idea where the ball was located, therefore easily being able to pull out easy goals or assists from behind cage. Preston argues that there may have been some disbelief due to the Blue Jays previous games but there can be no doubt now. The simply demolished the seventh seed team in the tournament. Throughout his column Preston give exact evidence as to why he believes The Blue Jays played to absolute perfection.
Midfielder Connor Reed, "might have been the Blue Jays biggest weapon because Virginia had no one to contain him." |
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Preston's introduces his audience to the Blue Jays by claiming their perfection all in one game. Putting together a high light reel is no need, when all the seasons highlights were in the Virginia vs. John Hopkins game. He then proficiently proceeds to identify their golden plays by adding exact plays the Blue Jays used, for example "The Blue Jays scored goals using the hidden ball trick," "Hopkins Ran high pick plays to perfection," and "Whenever the Blue Jays wanted, their midfielders would blow by Virginia short-stick midfielders." Preston adds these generic plays to further provide evidence of their "perfect game." In the mid column, Preston brings in an appeal to ethos by providing a direct quote from attackman Wells Stanwick, who finished the game with two goals and two assists; he states "Peaking, I would just want to think we're getting better and hopefully we're getting to the point of peaking." Preston's adds Stanwick's opinion as is agrees with his argument of them playing to perfection. Lastly he concludes his column by portraying the other teams thoughts about the game. "When you're losing like we were losing, they all sting," Virginia attackman Ryan Lukacovic said. In addition to having the other sides opinion, Preston sways the audience into his believes, constructs and validates his argument.
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Analyze |
Preston's argumentative pieces are all well constructed, well thought out, and powerful; but in his argument is best supported in this column. The argument is not just solid, but impressive, Preston pulls in evidence from exact score board times, exact plays, interviews with players coaches from both teams, number of fans attending the games, previous games, game stats such as goals, assists, saves, face off wins, shots. The list goes on, but it is obvious to see that Preston supports his claim with various types of evidence. Preston even addresses the counterargument but quickly defends his argument, "There was some disbelief because the Blue Jays had less-impressive wins over Penn State and Michigan during the streak, but there can be no doubt now. They simply demolished the seventh seed team in the tournament, on that team's home turf, to hand Virginia one of its worst postseason losses." Preston created an extremely well done argumentative piece that provides his audience his not only his opinion, but with a variety of evidence, game statistics and a persuasive tone.
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