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Topic 4: Persuasive Essay: Outline Worksheet Review “How Do I Organize My Brainstorm into an Outline?” in “The Writing Process” Media piece. Link: httpX://lc.gcumedia.com/phi105/persuasive-writing-website/persuasive-writingwebsite-v1.1.html References and Citation help: http://libguides.gcu.edu/CitingSources

Assignment Directions: Use the Persuasive Essay Outline on the next page to outline your persuasive essay by completing the following: 1) Use the feedback you received from your instructor to revise your thesis statement. a) Write your thesis as a complete sentence (as you would in your essay) in the “Thesis Sentence” section under the Introductory Paragraph heading in the outline below. 2) Create a topic sentence for each of the three paragraphs that comprise the body of your essay. a) Record the topic sentences in each of the “Topic Sentence” sections under the “Support for Thesis” headings in the outline below. b) Your topic sentences should be persuasive in nature and support your thesis. 3) Write at least three details for each topic sentence. a) These details should provide support for the topic sentence. b) Remember to include at least one in-text citation for each supporting paragraph. c) Paraphrasing is preferred, use direct quotes minimally. 4) Write a concluding sentence under the “Conclusion” heading in the outline below. a) Your concluding sentence should be your thesis restated in different words. 5) Make sure to complete reference portion of the outline.

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Persuasive Essay Outline Introductory Paragraph: Hook: While crime has been on a decrease since the late 1990s, rates of incarceration in our country are at significant high. Background and contextual information: The United States has 5 percent of the world's population but 25 percent of its prisoners and currently there are 2.2 million people incarcerated.

Thesis Sentence:. Reform is needed because to incarcerate the masses is extremely costly and achieves nothing.

Supporting paragraph 1 (Subtopic 1) Persuasive Topic Sentence (include position and align with first subtopic): In order to satisfy ethical norms, the US prison systems need to be reformed by promoting fairness.

Detail A: Requires that the punishment fit the crime

Detail B: 10,000 people serving life sentences had been convicted for non-violent offenses

Detail C: Punishments should not exceed the severity of the crimes they address.

Transitional sentence: Essential principle of criminal justice comes from Greek philosopher, Aristotle: Treat like cases alike.

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Supporting paragraph 2 (Subtopic 2)

Persuasive Topic Sentence (include position and align with second subtopic): Two offenses similar or the same as the other one should be receiving the same prison punishment regardless of race, sex, or status.

Detail A: Racial discrimination is the rule rather than the exception.

Detail B: Five times as many white people report using drugs as African Americans, black people are imprisoned at 10 times the rate of whites.

Detail C: unfair decisions exist in the criminal system as to who will serve prison time and who does not.

Transitional sentence: Custody has been the most expensive form of punishment with the most negative results. Supporting paragraph 3 (Subtopic 3)

Persuasive Topic Sentence (include position and align with third subtopic): The prison system reduces offenders that have suffered from deprivation, injustice, abuse, addiction, and mental illness. Detail A: No rehabilitation or drug addiction treatments

Detail B: Prisons are ineffective at stopping crime

Detail C: Costs of imprisonment is outweighed by the benefits.

Transitional Sentence: To those of you who believe that retribution does have a place in the prison system should agree that it cannot deny the evils we find in prisons today. © 2016. Grand Canyon University. All Rights Reserved.

Conclusion The system's gross lack of proportionality, its failure to treat like cases alike, and its harmful consequences for prisoners and communities are incompatible with a humane and decent society is why reformation is desperately needed. Paraphrase thesis statement (restated in different words): Prison systems deeply dissatisfy moral norms.

Summarize main points: No fairness, racial discriminatory, costly, and no rehabilitation or treatment. Final remarks: If you are a person that is oblivious to what is going on in the prison system, you will forever be part of the problem.

References (This will need to be at the top of a new page within essay draft) Organize all references below into a reference list. Be sure the references are in alphabetical order based on the author’s last name, double-spaced. List should be formatted to have hanging indents by ½ an inch, with the first line left justified and all others indented using the paragraph formatting tool. See the APA Style Guide for help with formatting references and citations. Within the essay, this reference page will be on its own page at end of your essay. Please review the grading rubric prior to completing the outline assignment to ensure successful completion.

Brown, E., & Smith, A. (2018). Challenging mass incarceration in the City of Care: Punishment, community, and residential placement. Theoretical Criminology, 22(1), 4. Cowdrey, L. (2006). Commission: U.S. prisons, jails in need of reform: problems include violence, safety, lack of mental health care. The Nation’s Health, 6, 21. Cupe, C. (2013). Inside Out: A Prisoner’s Perspective on Prison. J Journal: New Writings on Criminal Justice, 6(1), 67–72. © 2016. Grand Canyon University. All Rights Reserved.

O’Brien, T. L. (2020). Arresting Confidence: Mass Incarceration and Black–White Differences in Perceptions of Legal Authorities. Social Science Quarterly (Wiley-Blackwell), 101(5), 1905–1919. https://doi-org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.1111/ssqu.12842 Riley, R. W., Kang-Brown, J., Mulligan, C., Valsalam, V., Chakraborty, S., & Henrichson, C. (2018). Exploring the urban–rural incarceration divide: Drivers of local jail incarceration rates in the United States. Journal of Technology in Human Services, 36(1), 76–88. https://doi-org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/15228835.2017.1417955

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