Directions: Read through all of your 5 resources and pick the four main topics/claims

that you want to discuss in your essay. Write those topics in the main topic boxes
numbered 1-4. Then pull details (ethos, pathos, logos) for each of your paragraphs.
Remember only include pertinent information to your topic.

Thesis statement generator

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Essay topic: Automobile drivers should be forced
to retake the driving exam and knowledge tests
every 3 years to renew their license

Thesis: Requiring automobile drivers to retake the

behind-the-wheel driving test every three years is
essential for enhancing road safety, ensuring
driver competence, and reducing accidents, as it
promotes continuous skill evaluation and
awareness of updated traffic regulations,
ultimately leading to a safer and more responsible
driving culture.

Main topics for each paragraph

Topic 1: It enhances safety
and causes less accidents.
Topic 2: Covid 19
Topic 3: Laws of the road Topic 4: Automobile
and advances in drivers in the United
technology have changed States are passed too
and grown over the years easily compared to other
after people have taken countries.
the exam.

Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 Paragraph 3 Paragraph 4

Claim 1: Taking the behind
the wheel test every few
years will enhance the
safety of others and
prevent more accidents
from happening.
Claim 2: Covid 19 took away
the muscle memory and left
automobile drivers forgetting
how to drive so retaking
these tests can remind and
reteach them how to drive.
Claim 3: Retaking the Claim 4: The behind the
exam can introduce the wheel tests in California
new changes and are way too easy for
advancement in individuals going to take
technology on the road. their test, which grants a
license to a lot of people
who aren’t ready to be
driving.

Evidence 1 Evidence 1 Evidence 1 Evidence 1

“Eighty-five percent of “Robert Johnson backed out “Vehicles are getting more “This is all true, even
those tested, for example, of his garage, preparing to complex every year and though the U.S. generally
couldn't name the correct visit his company’s office — a most roads are getting has driving tests that are a
thing to do when place he hasn’t driven to more crowded. These lot easier than the ones
approaching a yellow
traffic light, and only one in
four knew how to calculate
the safe distance for
following a vehicle.”
Source:
https://auto.howstuffwor
ks.com/car-driving-safet
y/auto-safety-testing/sho
uld-licensed-drivers-be-t
ested-periodically.htm
regularly since before the
coronavirus pandemic. His
wife screamed. Johnson
slammed on the brakes.
There, just behind the
vehicle, was his dog.”
Source:
https://www.washingtonpo
st.com/lifestyle/wellness/fo
rgot-how-to-drive-pandemi
c-/2021/05/16/2ce5cff6-b4ee
-11eb-9059-d8176b9e3798_
story.html
changes add to the logic used by the rest of the
for changes in licensing.” world, NHTSA found. In
the Canadian province of
British Columbia, for
Source: example, would-be drivers
https://www.beaumonte have to undergo 45
nterprise.com/opinions/ minutes of testing on
editorials/article/PRO-C several different types of
ON-Should-adult-drivers road, and also must
-be-retested-729758.php verbally describe what
specific road hazards are
immediately beside, one
block ahead, and behind
their vehicles, to test their
awareness.”

Source:
https://auto.howstuffwor
ks.com/car-driving-safet
y/auto-safety-testing/sh
ould-licensed-drivers-be
-tested-periodically.htm

Evidence 2 Evidence 2 Evidence 2 Evidence 2

“One of the best ways to
make our roads safer is to
require adult drivers to be
retested periodically, such
as every four or six years.”
Source:https://www.bea
umontenterprise.com/op
inions/editorials/article/P
RO-CON-Should-adult-dr
ivers-be-retested-729758
.php
“Some no longer recall “Hand position – 10 and 2
routes that were once muscle really is no longer the “Drivers in the UK
memories; others are safest hand position currently have to renew
nervous about driving in the because of the air bag their driving licenses
dark or even operating at thetechnology – if an airbag every 10 years, but that’s
speed limit.” deploys and your hands just admin: you fill in a
are higher on the wheel form, supply an up-to-date
Source: there is greater risk for photo and carry on as
https://www.washingtonpo injury. We teach 9 and 3 normal.”
st.com/lifestyle/wellness/fo or 8 and 4 and the shuffle
rgot-how-to-drive-pandemi steering method where Source:
c-/2021/05/16/2ce5cff6-b4ee you do not cross over to https://www.carscoops.
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story.html transfer control of the drivers-be-re-tested-eve
wheel from one hand to ry-10-years/
the other in a shuffle
method.”

Source:
https://drivingmba.com/

Evidence 3
“American motorists have
to get past the outmoded
tradition of taking a test
once, when they're usually
just 16, and then in effect
getting a lifetime license.
That allows bad habits to
become ingrained. It
doesn't detect drivers
whose physical ability to
control a car has
dramatically declined.”
“Vehicles are getting more
complex every year and
most roads are getting
more crowded. These
changes add to the logic
for changes in licensing.
The higher costs for more
tests would undoubtedly
be offset by the savings
from fewer accidents and
lower insurance rates.”
Source:https://www.bea
umontenterprise.com/op
inions/editorials/article/P
RO-CON-Should-adult-dr
ivers-be-retested-729758
.php
Evidence 3
“Unfortunately, rusty drivers
will be returning to roadways
that have become more
dangerous since the onset of
the pandemic. The traffic
fatality rate per mile jumped
by 24 percent in 2020,
according to the National
Safety Council “
Source:
https://www.washingtonpo
st.com/lifestyle/wellness/fo
rgot-how-to-drive-pandemi
c-/2021/05/16/2ce5cff6-b4ee
-11eb-9059-d8176b9e3798_
story.html
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Evidence 3 Evidence 3
“All of these types of “In parts of Australia,
changes have given learners have to log 120
drivers a “sense of safety” hours of experience with
and have, unfortunately, an instructor before they
dummied drivers down in can take their final
some cases. It is still practical test.”
important for us to teach
drivers how to do ALL of Source:
these things manually, as https://www.zuto.com/dr
technology sometimes iving-tests-around-the-w
fails.” orld/
Source:
https://drivingmba.com/
driver-training/rules-of-t
he-road-have-they-chan
ged/#:~:text=The%20act
ual%20rules%20of%20th
e,attention%20to%20wh
en%20we%20drive.