Thinking Critically About Evidence

Topic sentence: Teenagers obtaining their drivers license.

Thesis: Student’s shouldn’t be able to obtain a drivers license at such a young age as 16 years old.

Evidence:

1) Some teenagers are not responsible enough.

 2) Teenagers take this as freedom and fun instead of taking it as something serious. 

3) Teenagers put their life at risks when acting irresponsible.

4) They are not conscious of the consequences a minor incident can bring.  

My compelling evidence for why students should not be able to obtain their drivers license at 16 is because teenagers take it as freedom and fun instead of taking it as something serious. This is strong evidence because when a teenager obtains their license, they immediately they think that they have the freedom to go anywhere at any time. Yet they do not think of it as a serious responsibility. This will be a good evidence for my essay because it’s a primary reason of teenagers’ actions.

My weakest evidence is that teenagers put their life at risks when acting irresponsible. This is my weakness evidence because there is no way I would be able to prove this without doing any research. Also not all teenagers are irresponsible; some take more precautions than others. I shouldn’t include this in my essay because I am trying to prove that all teenagers are not responsible enough to obtain a drivers license at 16.