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.
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The content
below is not perfectly constructed.
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It is not
supposed to serve as the only ideas for this proposal argument essay.
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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.
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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.
