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