Major keys for writing an argumentative essay are all revolved around your issue. Claiming your issue, collecting information about your issue, and establishing a position about your issue. In Michael J. Sandel’s What Isn’t For Sale? and Barry Schwartz’s The Tyranny of Choice short stories, both collect their topic and use anecdotes to provide their arguments. Both of the authors use persuasive techniques to provide a strong argumentative essay on their topic. Sandel and Schwartz both give different topics but both also use valid form. In Michael Sandel’s What Isn’t For Sale?, he claims that the market is taking over the world with anything and everything up for grabs. He explains in his short story that anything you can think of has a price tag. He gives examples such as a individual prison cells, the right to shoot an endangered rhino, and the right to immigrate to the United States are all things that can be purchased. Throughout Sandel’s short story he goes on about his examples of what is up for sale in our society. When he is giving these examples, he also mentions that not everyone can afford these insane things. To earn cash…show more content… Logically the more choices we have the better, Schwartz claims, but psychologically no. He also claims that over the years as our society has grown that the more choices we have can be hurtful to our decision making. In Schwartz research through The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less, he gives examples of maximizers and satisficers such as giving students 30 topics from which to choose to write an extra-credit essay are less likely to write one than those given six and shoppers who are less likely to buy a display selection of 6 jams instead of 30. In the recent study of the Journal of American Medical Association, a decrease in well-being was
