At a Glance - Revising Your Draft - p. 174

Reading my essay out loud is very helpful for me because it really makes me focus on the essay and it helps me catch mistakes that I may have overlooked earlier. By reading it out loud, I am able to hear when certain sentences and phrases sounded wrong, which helps me revise my essay. Printing out my essay is also a very helpful way for editing. It helps me a lot when I can actually write on the paper my revisions and it helps me to actually visualize the changes and my progress in my essay. Another thing that I find very helpful is reading the feedback from my peers on my essay. Sometimes, I cannot see other views or other ways to write my essay because I have been working on it so much. By having one of my peers read my essay, I am able to get someone else's insight in to my essay from a different point of view.

Multimedia Project Ideas

Possible Topics:
Global warming
American Obesity
Universal health care in America
Eating disorders
Animal Testing

Usefulness:
The usefulness of the presentation depends on what topic is presented, however some options are...
To inform the audience about the issue/topic
To get the attention of the audience about a specific problem
To interest the audience and to entertain

General Questions about the assignment:
Is anyone familiar with making videos and movies online, specifically adding music and text to videos?
Which topic would be the most interesting topic for the intended audience?

Research Outline

Physician Assisted Suicide Outline

I. Introduction

a. “Hook”

i. Example of family who had to watch a family member struggle in pain with a terminal illness because PAS was not legal

b. Thesis

i. Physician assisted suicide should be legalized. PAS should be legalized with specific regulations and qualifications in order to qualify

II. Define PAS

a. The definition of Physician Assisted Suicide

b. The differences between PAS and Euthanasia

i. Clearly state that this essay is for the legalization of PAS, not euthanasia

c. The negative connotations with the word “suicide” and how that affects the public’s viewpoint on PAS

III. Physician View on PAS

a. Moral Issues

b. Hippocratic Oath

i. How does this come in to play with PAS?

IV. Public Opinion

a. Personal experiences (from journal articles) with PAS

V. Legal Issues

a. Court Cases and outcomes dealing with PAS

b. Where is PAS already legal?

i. Oregon

1. Laws and how they are stated in Oregon

c. Specific qualifications for PAS

i. What are the rules and regulations when considering a candidate for PAS

VI. State arguments against PAS

VII. Final arguments and case studies for PAS

a. Counterargument against the claims against PAS

i. Against people saying that if legalized “everyone” will choose PAS whenever anything gets too difficult

ii. Stress the definition of a terminal illness

1. Clearly state what qualifies a patient for PAS

VIII. Conclusion

a. Review what has been stated

i. Redefine PAS

b. State overall feeling

i. PAS should be legalized and would be beneficial if controlled very strictly

c. Further reaching impacts of the study of PAS