Opinion Column about VW Scandal
Explanatory Evaluation
Proposal Argument
Explaining why the scandal occured
what should be done about it
who is at fault
proposes a solution to the problems exposed in the evaluative argument about why the scandal occurred in the first place
Evaluative argument
need for more realistic emissions laws
more realistic testing
lowered standards to correspond with more realistic testing
top engineers put on leave who probably had nothing to do with it
need to have heads roll
road test
emissions
mileage