Outline
I.
Intro: Censorship – What comes to mind when you hear the word
“Censorship?” Do you imagine something being ‘bleeped’ out or some sort
of media being shielded from you? Well that’s basically what censorship
is; it’s a barrier that stands between indecency and what is considered to
be ‘ok’ in today’s media. It is a barrier that keeps immoral content out of
everyday lives of decent average listeners. This is a big problem with the
accessibility of mass media to the public in today’s society. < Why is it
necessary? What is its importance on a personal level? Why is it a big problem in todays
society?
II.
Thesis: Censorship creates the bounds for indecent language and such
things that would seem immoral to the average human being, but it is
only holding on by threads in today’s world.< You may need to reword your
thesis to where the reader understands your exact view on the subject matter.
III.
Evaluative Claim: Censorship the fence that keeps indecent material out
of the everyday lives of everyone.
 Whether or not people agree or disagree with censorship laws < I
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IV.
Evidence to support claim
 Explain the effects of censorship and what it would be like if it
didn’t exist. - Due to the material available today it is not hard to
find uncensored material that is part of mass media.
 Show evidence in body paragraphs on the pros and cons of
censorship < Maybe use the cons as a counter argument to your point of view.
 Elaborate on why it is good or bad < you want to pick a side and stick
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V.
would probably go with what you agree with instead of what other people agree
with. And then use what other people disagree with as your counter argument.
The major pros and cons of censorship < since this is a rather vague idea
you may want to think about putting it first in the body to help better the
understanding of the reader.
with it, you don’t want to flip flop in your writing and confuse the reader about
what you trying to prove.
Body paragraphs – also include who is affected by this
Types of media that is effected by censorship
 Television
 Radio
 Cell phones
 Billboards
 Books
 Explain how these types of media are relevant to your argument
VI.
The effects of censorship
 We must take into account the effects that censorship has on
children of today’s society. < you are using a similar idea in paragraph
four. Personally if you split up an idea it becomes weak, so I would recommend
that you try and combine the together and then expand on them as a whole. You
could even go as far to make it a separate idea within the paper and then expand
on it if your research permits.
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The availability of mass media to youth at any given moment.
How are schools using censorship? Libraries and internet access < I
see where you are going with this but you aren’t going to get your point across
unless you have a counter argument which you prove to be wrong.
VII.
Conclusion:
 Personal take on censorship; for it. < you may want to state this in the
introduction also.
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Why is it so important to have censorship overall?
What is the overall effect that censorship has on all of our lives? <
you might not want to use this as a question in the conclusion. Since you just
spent the entire paper arguing your point of view you may just want to flat out
tell them this is the way it needs to be.
Is it good or bad?
Ask the audience, the next time they listen to the radio or watch tv,
is there content being censored and imagine if it wasn’t. Put
yourselves in a world where content like this was available to you,
your family, children, and everybody else. < good idea i like it but you
can also get one final chance to push your idea on to the audience if you were to
restate your personal opinion in plane terms.