D#9, HW#6, Outline

Aside from the Toulmin method, I like using the topic outlining. It's clear and I find it very useful. This project made me think, more than I ever have, about WP#3. Outlining is a great starting point to writing a research paper and it's been very helpful to the overall process. I no longer am wondering what i'm gonna include in my paper, I just have to rewrite my outline in greater depth and that will be the paper.

The government of the United Stated of America does not provide legitimate aid to citizens living in poverty.

1. People with jobs cannot afford food
a. Not enough aid is going to working families
1. Aid is only $2.34 a day per person
b. Local officials are not cooperating
1. Creating unnecessary hurdles
c. Restrictions and cuts made to food stamps
1. It's too hard for people to receive aid
2. Cuts in poverty budget
d. One in ten homes go hungry
2. Limited aid to homeless
a. Address requirements
1. Welfare, food stamps
b. Food banks and homeless shelters is only aid available
1. Unsafe conditions
c. Transportation issues
d. Churches provide more aid than gov't
3. Breakdown of people in poverty
a. Percentages and descriptions
b. Description of who/why their in poverty
1. Families with kids, veterans, handicapped, abusers
c. Children, Mentally Ill, Veterans
Refutations
a. Lighten welfare and food stamp restrictions
1. People may take advantage
b. Solutions for the majority of homeless
1. Special gov't jobs
2. Transportation arrangements
3. Revising address requirements
4. People may take advantage
5. "Special treatment" will create problems
c. Solutions for substance abusers in poverty
1. Free rehab clinics
2. Free, low cost medical treatment/therapy
4. What average Americans can do to help
a. Volunteering
1. Shelters, food services, church organizations
b. In-home service work
1. Special skills, quilts, food, hygiene kits
c. Monetary donations