In addition to completing the following, please write three (3) specific questions about your project/outline for your peers to address in your workshop, and for me to address in my feedback to you.

Here’s a rough outline that I’d like you to fill out to help you with your advocacy essay plans. It’s like Madlibs, but better, because it serves a more useful purpose. Upload your responses when you’re finished.

The problem:_________________________________________________________________

The solution(s):_______________________________________________________________

Thesis: The thesis for the advocacy essay should at the very minimum argue, “this policy is the best policy because of framework 1, framework 2, and framework 3.” Be aware, however, that your thesis should not set you up to write a “5-paragraph essay.” Rather, the three frameworks you choose should not be interchangeable, but should be connected and should build on each other in some crucial way (in terms of importance or relationship to one another).

So here’s a fill in the blank thesis to start you off: (The solution) supported by (group, organization, scholar, politician, etc) is the best policy to solve (the problem) because of (causation, coverage, feasibility, comparison, or cost/benefits), (causation, coverage, feasibility, comparison, or cost/benefits), and (causation, coverage, feasibility, comparison, or cost/benefits).

Now you’ll make this more complex once you put it in your paper to explain how the frameworks address the problem and write in your own style, but it should have these basic elements in it.

First body paragraph:

Framework I’m using (select one): (causation, coverage, feasibility, comparison, or cost/benefits)

Topic sentence: __________________________________________________________________

Source(s) you plan to use: __________________________________________________________

Second body paragraph:

Framework I’m using (select one): (causation, coverage, feasibility, comparison, or cost/benefits)

Topic sentence: __________________________________________________________________

Source(s) you plan to use: __________________________________________________________

Third body paragraph:

Framework I’m using (select one): (causation, coverage, feasibility, comparison, or cost/benefits)

Topic sentence: __________________________________________________________________

Source(s) you plan to use: __________________________________________________________

Opposition:

One weakness that I’m mentioning about my policy: ____________________________________________________________________________

Reason why my policy should still be considered even though it has this weakness: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Another policy that I’m comparing mine too, but it’s just not quite as good: _______________________________________________________________________________

A framework or two that I’m going to use to analyze the alternative policy (select all that apply): (causation, coverage, feasibility, comparison, or cost/benefits)

Topic Sentence:_______________________________________________________________

Maybe another topic sentence:___________________________________________________

Source(s) you plan to use: __________________________________________________________

Three specific questions to guide your peers’ and instructor’s feedback:

1.

2.

3.

And now you have an outline for your paper. You should use this to organize your paper and focus your research.