SAMPLE Freewriting

Freewriting to Gather Ideas for the Full Outline

Note: this is only a sample freewriting to give students ideas on how to begin to organize ideas before starting their essay 1 outline work. Below is a sample of a freewriting strategy that puts some of the basic argument into logical areas for the student to clearly see before moving forward with the outline assignment. ·         The content below is not perfectly constructed.  ·         It is not supposed to serve as the only ideas for this proposal argument essay.  ·         All proposed ideas for change are valid in this assignment as long as you argue them clearly and use some support to defend your argument for proposed changes. .

Introduction Paragraph (final sentence)Thesis Statement

In order to combat the opioid crisis in the United States, drug companies who manufacture prescription opioid substances must provide funding so that greater emphasis will be placed on community support, dependence prevention, and addiction treatment. 

Body Paragraph Topic Sentence 1

Community agencies and local churches need to work together to create education and understanding in the community about the opioid crisis and helping those with opioid addictions on a personal- and emotional-level. 

Body Paragraph Topic Sentence 2

Dependence Prevention seminars and pamphlets must be used by doctors and paid for by drug companies who manufacture prescription opioid substances.

Body Paragraph Topic Sentence 3

Addiction treatment needs to be readily available through hospitals.

Body Paragraph Topic Sentence 4

Opposition to support, prevention, and treatment is strongest from those who wish to relieve drug companies of their responsibility of providing a safe product that is well-controlled and properly managed.

Conclusion Paragraph Topic Sentence

Financial support from opioid-producing drug companies for community addiction programs, educating doctors on dependence prevention, and increasing addiction treatment is essential to alleviating the opioid crisis in America. 

Sample Body Paragraph

Community agencies and local churches need to work together to create education and understanding in the community about the opioid crisis and helping those with opioid addictions on a personal- and emotional-level.  Drug addicts must be seen as viable members of the American society by altering the social labels put upon them and changing such labels from worthless to redeemable.  Each person suffering from opioid drug abuse is someone's brother, sister, son, daughter, or parent.  Therefore, opioid drug addicts must be encouraged to find worth in their lives without the drug use/abuse. Sonia Tolbert indicates that "increased punishment for opioid use is not the way to get Americans out of this dangerous cycle of overdose" but she suggests "implementing better drug education at all levels through the community" (45).  She further suggests that the stigma of drug addicts being "lost souls and repugnant in society" is destructive to our culture and society.  It is essential that these addicts are not left to their addictions and quietly closed in the metaphorical 'closet'.  Community-based organizations:

are often considered to include churches, unions, schools, health care agencies, social-service groups, fraternities, and clubs. Community organizations are predominantly conceptualized as nonprofit, but broader conceptions of community sometimes include all organizations, including for-profit enterprises. (Community-Based Organizations, Agencies, and Groups, 2020)

The community will learn strategies and develop programs for opioid abuse through such community-based organizations, and these organizations must be supported through drug company taxation and specialized grants from the federal government. To alleviate the opioid crisis, it is important for a change in view to start immediately.  Viewing drug addicts as troubled souls in need of relief is essential to reducing the number of deaths by opioid abuse.