Outline and Proposal Essay

The Proposal

Informative/Persuasive Essay

What is the problem? What Microplastics are?

What does this issue entail? Poisons, illness, effects on the ecosystem, birth defects, lower fish availability

Why and how is this relevant to your reader? (Can affect health, economy, their ability to get fresh fish, the health of their children)

What will be the consequences if this issue goes unchecked?

You are going to convince the reader that this subject is worthy enough of the next 18 days of you studying about, researching it, writing about it.

What you should not do in this paper

Do NOT DISCUSS a SOLUTION.

The Proposal

1. Introduction

· Attention getter (hook)

· Define terms

· Thesis statement What NOT to do “Air pollution in America is really bad on the east coast, affects children’s lung capacity and also in wreaking havoc on wildlife.”

· Tensioned Thesis “The USA is fraught the systemic problem of air pollution, if left unresolved, this issue has far reaching implications.”

· Transitional sentence “In order to understand this issue, one must understand the implications of deregulation of corporations”

II. Body Paragraph 1

· Topic sentence – Define the problem and the stages (chronological or sequential events)

Microplastics have become an embedded part of American society. From the moment plastics are created to the moment they are tossed into the ocean, they negatively affect all living things.

· Support-

· Gloss over “Why are you telling me this?”

· Transitional sentence

III. Body Paragraph- What we buy as consumers

IV. Body Paragraph- How we pollute and how recycling doesn’t really work

V. Body Paragraph -Plastic pollutions break down

VI. Body Paragraph- Chain of negative outcomes to ecosystem and humanity

VII Body Paragraph- The consequences of what will happen if we don’t solve this issue

VIII Conclusion:

Restate your thesis

Ask to conduct further research so that a solution to this problem can be found