The Prospectus
The Plan
FORMATS FOR A PROSPECTUS
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Thesis statement
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Description of
Project
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Preliminary
bibliography
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Must be stated at the
beginning of paper
What arguments do wish
to include?
Counterarguments?
What sources have you
found already (include all that
you have researched)
Writing the thesis statement
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Introduce the subject by providing history or
background
Offer your reader some information to help
your reader gain interest in your subject
State the most important idea you are writing
of and conclude it with the thesis sentence
Writing the description of project
1. Write a condensation
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Usually 100-200 words of what arguments or topics you will
cover in your paper
2. Write a paragraph on the components of your thesis
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narrative, explanatory, informative, classification
definition, descriptive
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Alcohol-induced activities lead teenagers to drink excessively.
3. Opinion of your topic: Write a first-person statement
Writing a Condensation
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This is an abstract of your overall paper.
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You have to have the ability to see the paper as
a whole, as a completed project
You’ll have to take points and develop it as a
summary
Use an outline
Write a paragraph on the components
of your thesis
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narrative, explanatory, informative, classification
definition, descriptive
Alcohol-induced activities lead teenagers to drink
excessively to the point that it can lead to serious
injuries.
definition
cause / effect
narrative
Alcohol-induced activities - definition
Alcohol-induced activities range from quarters to wet t-shirt
contests, from bellyshots to Girls Gone Wild. These
activities are front stage and center in most watering holes.
In recent years as alcohol consumption plays a major role in
local bars, college parties, and even in private homes,
teenagers find themselves infused in modified card games,
like Truth or Dare, Poker, 21, and Spoons. Alcohol-induced
activities are games that enhance a social gathering by
requiring a participant to take a drink or a shot to get ahead.
With those rules, come the unruliness of what alcohol can
induce.
Lead – cause / effect
Alcohol-induced activities are enjoyable, as games are,
which leads the inexperienced drinker to drink more and
more. Because of the continuous drinking, an inexperienced
drinker, such as a teenager, will continue to drink without
limits, because it’s fun; it’s engaging. Drinking without
limiting oneself will lead to poor judgments, like drinking and
driving; worse off, it can lead to alcohol poisoning, which
can end up fatal. However, there are far worse situations
that can and have lead to damaging one’s self-esteem and
self-respect.
teenagers to drink excessively
- narrative
In the Fall of 1983, there were two college girls I witnessed
while attending a college party. There were football players
playing quarters and girls playing 21 with liters of tequila.
They were laughing and having such a good time, noone,
not even myself, paid attention when a girl who walked
sideways got up from the couch we were all sitting on and
headed toward a bay window on the 7th floor of the
dormitory. The end result was horrific as we watched her try
to walk through the window.
Concluding paragraph
In that instance, it was frightful, and not that all
drinkers behave that way. Unfortuantely, when
teenagers drink, they will drink more if there are
activities that keep them from thinking of their
consumption. Young inexperienced drinkers ,
especially teenagers are more apt to drink without
hesitation when games are involved. Thus,
alcohol-induced activities lead teenagers to drink
excessively, which can be detrimental to their
lives and to the lives of others.