Organize your paper into seven paragraphs.
1. Introduction
Hook – your hook could be an interesting statistic, an anecdote, a question, a definition.
Thesis – the narrowed, focused, intellectual center of your paper plus a forecast of your supporting points.
2. Background information section –Present information a reasonably well-educated reader needs to know to understand the arguments that follow. Present the history of the topic/debate.
3. Supporting Argument One – Develop one argument based on one of the following: comparison/contrast, or cause/effect, or examples/details, or classification, or definition.
4. Supporting Argument Two – Develop a second argument based on one of the following: comparison/contrast, or cause/effect, or examples/details, or classification, or definition.
5. Supporting Argument Three – Develop a third argument based on one of the following: comparison/contrast, or cause/effect, or examples/details, or classification, or definition.
6. Opposition and Refutation – State the opposing argument(s) fairly and thoroughly. For each opposing point you raise, you must either refute or concede.
7. Conclusion – summarize your supporting points, restate your thesis, connect the issue to some larger issue.
8. References list – an alphabetized list of every source used in your paper (stapled to the paper).
9. Library of Research – Copies of all materials, with information taken from sources boxed or highlighted. I will only
evaluate papers which include a complete Library of Research.
Submit: 1) final draft, 2) library of research (if necessary).