Do the benefits of enhancing humans through science outweigh the negatives? Your answer is your thesis; however, you dont want to answer this question until youve researched both sides.
Your answer to the question posed is your thesis
You might have a long preview, so you are welcome to break the preview of your supporting paragraph topics (reasons for your thesis) into three or so separate preview sentences near the end of your Introductory paragraph.
Audience: Assume your readers are skeptical, college-level readers.Think of those who disagree with you as colleagues, not adversaries (see Rogerian argument).
Use several hooks in your introduction: Anecdote, Quotation, Profound Question or Statement, the Opposition, Statistic or Fact, Description, Definition, Comparison (simile/met.), or Brief, Engaging Background Information. Be sure to transition/bridge into background info or your thesis. See Week 1s Presentation material and examples if you need to review.
Note that each supporting paragraph has a topic sentence that not only introduces the paragraph topic but also alludes to the idea set forth in your thesis statement. This should insure paragraph unity. A Research Paper will be longer, so you may wish to break up one point into several paragraphs that each tackle a distinct concern of that one point.
You might even have an entire paragraph on background information, on the opposition, or even break a supporting paragraph into two different sub paragraphs, etc. This is not digressing as long as the background will help persuade readers.
After the topic sentence, a paragraph will include support (stories, examples, textual support) for the statement made in the TS. Make sure there are transitions between your examples and between supporting paragraphs to ensure coherence.
Organization/Structuring: You do NOT need to include an outline at the end of this essay. You should now understand that an essay needs structure; its like the spine of your argument. Without structure, your argument falls apart. Like all essays, youll have an introduction, body full of supporting paragraphs, and conclusion. If youre feeling ambitious, as an option, you might experiment with the different types of organization seen in Ch. 14. Move from evidence to conclusion using a mix of different ways. For example, use Deductive or Inductive Arguments (Deductive Reasoning is moving from a general premise/assumption (your thesis) to a specific conclusion. If all statements in the argument are true, the conclusion must be true. Inductive Reasoning proceeds from individual observations to a more general conclusion. Or you could use the Toulmin Logic which divides argument into claim, grounds, warrant.
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