Assignment: Drug Use & Abuse
Point/Counterpoint Outline Instructions
You will use this outline to write your Point/Counterpoint essay. Submit this outline (one week before your Point/Counterpoint essay is due) so I can provide feedback to help you write your final essay.
Select one of the issues from the list provided below. If you want to use a topic that is not on the list you must contact me for approval of your topic before you write your outline and essay. TOPICS THAT ARE NOT ON THIS LIST OR ARE NOT PRE-APPROVED WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Topics
The topic you choose will also be the title of your outline and essay, word for word.
• Are sober living homes effective or ineffective?
• Is addiction a disease or a choice?
• Do addicts have to hit "rock bottom" to get help?
• Should the government fund and promote needle exchange programs?
• Should pregnant women who are addicted to drugs be criminally culpable for the state of their children at birth?
• Should participation in a drug treatment program that has a religious basis be mandated by a Court?
• Which works better - a harm-reduction strategy or abstinence in the treatment of intravenous drug users?
• Is it better to punish or is it better to treat addicts?
• Are doctors responsible for prescription drug overdoses?
• Can tighter regulation of prescription drugs reduce prescription drug abuse?
• Should medication-assisted treatment for drug addiction be more widely used?
• Should medical marijuana be legalized in all 50 states?
• Is marijuana a gateway drug that leads users to try more dangerous drugs like cocaine?
• Should we raise the drinking age to 25 in California?
• Should we lower the drinking age to 18 in California?
• Does the culture of children drinking wine with meals with their families (like in Europe) create a healthier relationship with alcohol later in life for them?
• Would raising alcohol taxes reduce abuse?
• Should liquor commercials be banned from television?
You may choose one of the following five Point/Counterpoint debate topics from your textbook: 1) Should we legalize drugs in general? 2) Should cognitive performance-enhancement drugs be used by healthy people? 3) Should alcoholism be viewed as a disease? 4) Should prescription drugs be advertised to the general public? If you choose to write about 1 of these 5 topics, you must include new and different arguments and also different sources than the textbook provides.
FORMAT:
Use the Outline Template to construct your outline. Type the following information into the boxes provided inside the template. READ THE SAMPLE OUTLINE BEFORE YOU BEGIN WRITING AND COMPARE YOUR OUTLINE TO THE SAMPLE OUTLINE BEFORE YOU SUBMIT IT.
• A title that clearly states the issue as a question. Take your title from the list of approved topics and just copy what it says there word for word.
• An interesting introductory paragraph that clearly introduces the question to be discussed with the point (argument for) and counterpoint (argument against). Do not include your opinion (do not say "I think, I believe, in my opinion.")
• Briefly list 3 strong arguments FOR the issue (the point). ***Each of the 3 arguments must cite a source.
• Briefly list 3 strong arguments AGAINST the issue (counterpoint). ***Each of the 3 arguments must cite a source.
• Briefly state your opinion on the issue in the closing paragraph.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
Attachment:- Point-Counterpoint-Outline-Sample.rar