Description
This week’s assignment is intended to help get you started on the persuasive essay we will be working on throughout the remainder of this course.
Part One: Topic Search
For the first part of this assignment, consider the following three questions:
- What issue or problem would you like to write about?
- Choose a side. What is your view on the issue? What is the opposing view?
- What specific change might fix this issue?
Then, freewrite for 10-15 minutes about the topic you have chosen. Share all of the reasons you can think of for why your problem needs to be fixed. Do not worry about grammar, spelling, or format. Do not edit. Write what comes to mind. Do not research yet. If you are stumped and cannot write what you know for 10-15 minutes, go back to #1 and start with a new topic.
Part Two: The Outline
Draft an informal outline for your upcoming persuasive paper. Do not include quotations or paraphrased material. Your outline should be built from your current knowledge of the topic. You can refine this later when you conduct your research.
Basic Outline for a Five Paragraph Essay
- Introductory Paragraph (five to seven sentences that include a hook, background information, and a thesis)
- Body Paragraphs
- First Topic Sentence
- Supporting Point
- Supporting Point
- Supporting Point
- Second Topic Sentence
- Supporting Point
- Supporting Point
- Supporting Point
- Third Topic Sentence
- Supporting Point
- Supporting Point
- Supporting Point
- First Topic Sentence
- Closing paragraph (five to seven sentences that include a restatement of the thesis, summary of the main ideas, and a closing thought)
Explanation & Answer
Attached.
Recently the use of tobacco has been the center of continues debates. State government
and even federal government are debating whether to ban the use of tobacco in both public and
private areas. The use of tobacco related products such as cigarettes is commonly used in the
United States in public areas like parks. If you can ask some folks, they will tell you it is their
right to smoke whenever they want at any times, but the other group thinks that smoking in
public areas is illegal and it should be banned from public areas or even ban its use altogether.
Whenever there is a debate of such kind, people are divided into two groups those who support
and those who oppose. I support the ban due to various reasons that I will outline below. ...
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