1. The author is very convincing in her topic about buy locally. She supports her stance with the many examples of how local economies can be improved by consumers buying locally. Additionally, she establish the importance of this topic by pointing out when purchasing local produce, you, as the consumer, will reduce the costs of shipping and ultimately reduce the amount of carbon emissions. Also, she incorporates her various sources as excellent backup in her making her point.
2. The counterarguments that she incorporates into her paper say that food should be bought from where it grows the best, small farms are not as efficient as large farms, more farming equipment will be used when buying locally which can have a detrimental effect on the environment. She responds to each counterargument by using cited references that support her argument.
3. The author's last paragraph is persuasive because it explicitly explains her point, has appropriate background information, uses good examples and wraps up main argument.
4. The pictures that the author uses, to me, do not back up her argument because three out four are just stock photos. She should have used pictures of an actual farmer's market or from farms that are local to her to reiterate the point in which she is making. By using stock photos it makes her article seem less interesting and the effort made in writing was diminished by using photos that are kind of close to what she was talking about.
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