Organization & Research
Presentation Organization
Objectives
Introduction
Transition
Body
Transition
Conclusion
Documentation
Research
 Your
experience
 Library
 Observation
 Interviews
 Surveys
 Internet
Experience
 Be
systematic and take notes while brainstorming
 Have
I taken a course?
 Do I have life experience?
 Have I written anything?
 Have I read something?
 Have I discussed or conversed with someone?
Library
 Searching
the library:
 Catalogue
 Books
http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/its/lib/
 Video
 Periodical
Indexes
 Book Reviews
 Government documents
Internet
 Search
Engines
 Boolean
searching http://pandia.com/goalgetter/4.html
 Credibility
 Citations
Observation, Interviews, Surveys
 How
to maintain Objectivity?
 How to maintain Accuracy?
 What kind of Questions?
 Ethics?
 Samples?
Organize, Investigate
& Present
Evidence and Support
 Examples
 Vivid
images
 Narratives
 Comparison/Contrast
 Testimony
 Statistics
 Definitions
 Analogies
General McCaffrey says
the Dutch approach to
drugs “hasn’t worked.”
The Facts say: It has!
Drug War vs. Legalization
Issue
United States
38%
The Netherlands
30%
Use of marijuana by 15year-olds (in 1995)
34%
29%
Heroin addicts (in 1995)
430 per 100,000
8.22 per 100,000
8.2 per 100,000
(1995)
645 per 100,000
$81
160 per 100,000
1.8 per 100,000
1.8 per 100,000
(1994)
73 per 100,000
$27
Use of Marijuana by
older teens (1994)
Murder rate (in 1996)
Crime-related deaths
Incarceration rate (1997)
Per capita spending on
drug-related law
enforcement
Are we so committed to past
mistakes that we cannot shift to
more effective strategies?
Visit Drug War Facts at:
www.drugsense.org
Facts based on official statistics from Holland and the United
States. Citations available @ http://www.netherlands-embassy.org/
“I'M PROOF: THE WAR ON
DRUGS IS WORKING”
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1133/a01.html?999
Definitions
Denotative
Dictionary
Connotative
Experiential
Analogy
Simile
Like
or AS
Metaphor
Organize
Logos
Investigate
Logos
Ethos
Present
Logos
Ethos
Pathos