Name: Jeremy Lyles Date: 4/3/09 Time: 9:00-9:50
Fort Valley State University
Fort Valley, GA 31030
Persuasive Essay Outline
Limited Topic: Equal Rights for Illegal Immigrants
General Purpose: To Persuade
Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to defend equal rights for illegal immigrants.
Method of Arrangement: Monroe’s motivated sequence
Introduction
Attention I. Think of yourself being a single parent. You have four children, ages ranging from 6-13. You are working two jobs, not including your job as a parent. II. As you see your children get on the bus to school, your day is just beginning. Walking to work which is 10 miles. You are a couple of minutes late. Your boss threaten to fired you, and dock your pay for being late only twice.
III. Five hours later you arrive at your second job. You overhear your co-workers complaining about hiring immigrants.
IV. This is just one example of the hard days of illegal immigrants face in the states. Unlike most you are a hard-worker seeking to archive the American’s Dream.
Central Idea: The Immigrants’ Rights Projects of the American Civil Liberties Union’s works to defend the civil and constitutional rights of immigrants through a comprehensive program of impact litigation and public education.
Internal Preview: First, I will explain the importance of equal rights for illegal immigrants. Then, I will discuss how serious this problem is by providing my argument with current information, statistics, and testimony. Next, I will satisfy my plan, by providing you with a solution to the problem. Lastly, I will describe its benefits to illegal immigrants, and becoming involved and signing petitions to make this law in