Lets Stop Drinking Pop

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Victor Munoz Rough draft Let’s Stop Drinking Pop General purpose: To persuade my audience to stop drinking high sugar beverages. Specific Purpose: I want my audience to lower or stop how much high sugar beverages they drink. Thesis: You should drink water instead of pop Introduction: Imagine the last time you were so thirsty you ran to the nearest gas station or convenience store, maybe even after eating lunch, you paid for a pop. You were so thirsty you chugged it, you felt the buzz running down your throat. Do you know what you just drank? Today I am going to share my views and thoughts on drinking pop, hoping that one day you when you open your fridge and see a gallon of water and a bottle of Pepsi you will pick the water over pop. There’s no doubt that pop is by far one of the most popular and most favorite beverage in the market. It is a drink that is enjoyed by people of all ages and classes. According to the American Beverage Association, The average American drinks an estimated 54 gallons of pop per year, that’s about 19 ounces of soda a day and the average teenager drinks 31-42 ounces a day. Here you will state your thesis. Body I. Instead: make it clear that there are serious problems with drinking pop. For example,“there are number of problems with drinking pop. A. (Then your subpoints spell out the main problems.) I count three main ones: sugar (getting fat, obesity, diabetes) aluminum (talk more about bone loss and what that means) and caffeine (explain what diuretic means and why it is bad to lose water rather than drink it—why is water necessary for health. So it would be: I. There are three serious problems about drinking pop. A. There is sugar in pop. 1. Empty Calories, fatness. 2. Diabetes.

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