Proposal Rough Outline

Savannah Ballard

Hem Paudel

English 101-17

Nov 9^th

Audience: Dean of Students office, this is the best place I feel to direct my proposal because it deals with the overall well being of all students and the foods they consume in relevance to nutrition content.

Introducing problem: As a college freshman, I am fully aware of the dreaded freshman 15. We have all heard of students gaining around fifteen pounds during the transition from high school to college. When you walk around campus and are looking for healthy foods, you must look through the abundance of very unhealthy food, such as papa johns, Chinese, fried chicken, pizza, burgers to places such as subway, where if you are very cautious about what you put on your sub, is one of the healthiest options available. I am a student who loves to cook and tries to eat healthy. If the University of Louisville would put a small grocery store on campus with raw whole foods (meat, produce, fruits, ect) where students can swipe their meal card to pay, then the dreaded weight gain could be stopped and the University would be a much healthier place.

Problem: Not enough whole foods are available on campus (gather a list of what restaurants and stores on campus carry whole foods that are healthy.)

Solution: Add a small store with produce and whole foods (Gain money from the excess amounts students have on the card every semester, the University of Louisville is a high achieving academic and athletic school, which gains plenty of income to expand on stores such as the nest)

Problem/objection: Too much money on meal card, forcing students to binge eat unhealthy food to avoid losing that money

Solution/response: Allow students to use meal plan at places such as the store mentioned above or at local stores such as Kroger

Problem/objection: What is available on campus is too expensive (the nest has fresh fruits in a very small case but one single container of strawberries or grapes costs 7$, where at the local Kroger it would only cost 3$.)

Solution/response: Allow the excessive amount of money students must place on their meal plans at the beginning of the year to be used up in places such as the nest, but for students with a limited budget, like most college students are, allow reasonable priced whole, natural and healthy foods. (Allowing stores like Kroger to use meal plans flex points to buy food, swipe like all SAC restaurants do.)

--Survey students in my classes of whether or not they would like a healthy option store to buy whole foods at, and if they feel it is a necessary step to avoiding the freshman 15.--

Assignment 4

     The purposes of Assignment Four are to give us practice writing a proposal, give us practice integrating statistics and evidences, introduce us to design principles such as using headings, and continue to improve your ability to respond respectfully to those who disagree with my view point. I believe that to make assignment 4 more clear, the statements of how to lay out the paper such as with headings or not, or how it needs to be formatted. I am not really confused about much. I think the main question I have is do I need to use I. II. III. with headings for each point.

November 6th Proposal Assignment

Savannah Ballard
Eng 101-17
Nov 6-14

Question 1)
The difference in a policy proposal and a practical proposal are:
          -in policy proposals the writer offers a broad plan of action to solve major problems that are social, economic or political affecting the common good. An example would be that universities should allow healthy foods to be purchased on meal plans from a store on campus.
         - in practical proposals the writers point is narrow, local and concrete. They use very specific information of how a solution will affect the problem. An example would be NAS because it has very specific solutions to limit the cases reported yearly.

Question 2)
The three main phases are:
1) description of a problem- must convince the audience a problem exists
2) proposed solution- show ways or a single way to solve the problem
3) justification for the proposed solution- look for the best "pressure points", some arguments require lots of development and some require minimal amounts.

Question 3)
Topic 1-- High schools should pass out free contraceptives
Clause: Because this would promote safer sex, leading to fewer unplanned pregnancies.
Topic 2-- Marijuana should be legalized
Clause: Because the state could heavily tax it making money which can be used to benefit the common people. Things such as roads and bridges could be repaired with the money.

causal argument outline

Savannah Ballard

English 101       10-27-14

Causal Outline

Introduction: Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome or NAS, is a condition that is incredibly painful to an infant; it brings upon many dangerous symptoms as well. Born to mothers that used drugs while pregnant, these innocent newborns are forced to battle just to live in their first few days, weeks or months of life. NAS is a preventable condition that must be controlled and quickly, as the rates of newborns with NAS is climbing annually. The selfishness of these mothers who use drugs while carrying a child causes this painful condition, known as NAS, but even after being discharged from the hospital, these young babies are not out of harm’s way. Newborns with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome are at a higher risk of abuse due to the uncontrollable high pitched crying that cannot be soothed, caused by the drug withdrawal the child is experiencing.

Topic one: NAS is caused by mothers who use drugs while pregnant. This is not only a condition that leads to being born in withdrawal, but it leads to many other side effects, such as birth defects and a higher risk of abuse.

Topic Two: Newborns who develop NAS have a higher risk of abuse because they tend to have a high pitched cry that cannot be soothed or stopped.

Topic Three: The lack of punishment in our state for putting a child into this much harm is not severe enough, which leads to a rising rate of NAS babies being born each year.

Topic Four: If prevention programs were put into place, mothers could have somewhere to turn for help because they would be protected by the law for seeking medical attention.

Opposing Views: Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome is not a serious problem that needs to be addressed urgently or have money spent on prevention programs. What is more urgent than a newborn baby fighting for survival moments after birth? The money that is being used for post-natal care should be re- routed to help fight and prevent NAS rates from climbing more.

Conclusion: NAS is a serious problem that puts children at a higher risk for abuse, as well as causes many birth defects and life threatening symptoms, such as frequent seizures. This problem is large enough and needs to be fixed before more newborns are subjected to this needless pain. Child abuse is a serious problem, we can make a difference, and we must.

Assignment three:Causal argument

1. What are the purposes of Assignment 3?

1. What statements do you think could be added to make Assignment 3 clearer?

1. What are you confused about in this assignment?

The purpose of Assignment 3 are to make us think about a topic that is somewhat controversial and to persuade an audience to believe the cause or the consequences linked to that particular topic. This paper will also allow us to practice using quotes to support a point.

I think that to make assignment 3 clearer, the following statements could be addressed:

-The topic does or does not have to be controversial or well known as long as it relates back to you or your life in some way.

I am confused about whether we are actually attempting to propose solutions or if we are stating consequences or saying A caused B which caused C.

Causal Argument Assignment 3 10-22-14

Savannah Ballard

Eng 101

Hem Paudel

After reading the two papers, I found “Marriage shows the way out of poverty” to be more persuasive. This article had statistics to back up each of its reasons on why marriage will help people get out of poverty. This article also came at the topic from several angles, not only did he mention that marriage will help poverty, he mentions how having children after being married, getting a job and graduating high school all make a person more likely to not live in poverty. The second article “When roommates were random” is not very persuasive. This article only mentions marriage as a small side note at the end of the paper in a few sentences. Unlike the first paper, this article doesn’t contain any facts or statistics to draw in the reader.

I believe the writer of “Marriage shows the way out of poverty” does have a few fallacies. Not mentioning the opposing view that marriage isn’t for everyone is a big problem. Some people just don’t get along well with others and don’t want to be married, or they are so tied up with their career that they haven’t had time to meet a potential marriage partner; these people can still be just as successful or more than someone who is married. The lack of opposing view in this article doesn’t bring down the persuasiveness of what is written, but including it would increase the overall strength of the paper. The second paper, “When roommates were random” has some larger problems. Not mentioning marriage until the last few sentences is a very big problem, as it doesn’t allow the reader to know what the actual point of the paper is. The second problem with this paper is that they don’t use any statistics or facts to prove that they are right; this really effects the persuasiveness in my opinion.

Causal Argument

Causal Argument

Topic 1) Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS)

Neonatal abstinence syndrome is a very serious problem especially here in Kentucky. NAS is when infants are born addicted to drugs because the mother used while she was pregnant. This causes painful withdraw where these infants are kept in the neonatal intensive care unit and given pain medications or sometimes methadone to ease the effects of withdraw on the little ones. Mothers who use drugs during pregnancy cause this terrible and painful syndrome on innocent newborns.

Topic 2) Involvement increases GPA and grades

Being involved in life on and off campus is something we are told from the moment we step on campus for orientation. We are told that being involved can be so beneficial, not only in terms of GPA, but it can lead to more school pride, connections leading to future jobs and a much higher chance to have good grades. When you feel purpose and pride in an organization, it makes you much more likely to work harder in the classroom in order to stay eligible for that organization. Also, being involved makes great connections that can really effect life later and the types of jobs you get. GPA boost is a great benefit of being involved.