Drug Abuse Among Teenagers

Name: Patricia Franklin |

Persuasive Essay: Outline Worksheet

Review “How Do I Organize My Brainstorm into an Outline?” of “The Writing Process” Media piece.

Assignment Directions:
Outline your persuasive essay below by completing the following: 1) Use the feedback you received from your instructor to revise your thesis statement. Write your thesis as a complete sentence as you would in your essay. Record your thesis statement in the “Thesis Sentence” entry under the Introductory Paragraph heading below. 2) Create a topic sentence for each of the three paragraphs that comprise the body of your essay. Record the topic sentences in each of the “Topic Sentence” entries under the “Support for Thesis” headings. Your topic sentence should support your thesis and provide a transition between the paragraphs. 3) Record at least three details for each topic sentence. These details should provide support for the topic sentence. (Review the example outline below) 4) Record a concluding sentence under the “Conclusion” heading. This should be your thesis restated in different words.

Example
Introductory Paragraph
Thesis Sentence: Earning a degree online is great for working adults because it is convenient, economical, and allows them to learn with other working adults around the world.

Support for Thesis 1
Topic Sentence: Online learning is convenient. A. Detail A: You can study and learn from home. B. Detail B: It is easier to balance work-life obligations. C. Detail C: You can attend class any time you would like.

Persuasive Essay Outline

Introductory Paragraph
Thesis Sentence:
Youth and adolescent addiction has become a number one problem in this decade. Some reason will be discussed in this essay.

Support for Thesis 1
Topic Sentence:

The family is a unit of society; which consists of parents or a parent and children living in a community. There things that can cause the disruption such as influence of peers, divorce, molestation in the family and parent keeping child form harmful activities

Detail A:
When the family is broken and the pressure of choosing one parent over the other

Detail B

Molestation by a family member or close of the family even by another teen

Detail C:

Stress and events – low grades, harmful activities after school events, dances, different sports events

Support for Thesis 2
Topic Sentence: Poverty parent not have enough resources physical or finances

Detail A:
Parent does not enough money take of the house needs and teen knows not to ask for money

Detail B:

Parent health could be a problem also and need to depend on teen to help around the house or care for the parent

Detail C:
Social problems teens my low esteem, bullying and not have friend because of some of the above situation

Support for Thesis 3
Topic Sentence:
Signs to let you know your teen are on drugs alcohol

Detail A:
Teen shows behavior changes not going to school, academic performance decreasing,

Detail B:

Detail C:

Conclusion
Thesis Sentence (restated in different words):

Youth and adolescent do not know to handle the problems that are presence in their lives so they are seek comfort in drugs. I have explored some of the reasons why there is an addiction among teenagers.

Grading Criteria
Consider the following criteria when developing the outline for your essay. These criteria will be applied when this assignment is graded. 1) Outline contains a thesis statement.

2) Outline contains a topic sentence for each of the three paragraphs of the body of the essay.

3) Transitions between paragraphs are evident and appropriate.

4) Contains three details for each topic sentence; details provide support of the related topic sentence.

5) Outline contains concluding sentence, which restates the thesis in different words.