ENGL-145 -01 Reasoning, Argumentation and Writing
Outline Sample for
Paper #1: Outlining
I.
Introduction
A. you will need É to make the reform of the entire food system
one of the highest priorities of your administration:
1.
it depends on cheap energy that we can no longer count on.
2.
the way we currently grow, process and eat food in America
goes to the heart of three problems
a)
the
health care crisis,
b)
energy
independence
c)
climate
change.
3.
The impact of the American food system on the rest of the
world will have implications for your foreign and trade policies as well.
a)
In
the past several months more than 30 nations have experienced food riots, and
so far one government has fallen.
b)
Should
high grain prices persist and shortages develop, you can expect to see the
pendulum shift decisively away from free trade, at least in food.
4.
food is a national-security issue.
a)
When
a nation loses the ability to substantially feed itself, it is not only at the
mercy of global commodity markets but of other governments as well.
b)
The
deliberate contamination of our food presents another national-security threat.
B. the twinned crises in food and energy are creating a
political environment in which real reform of the food system may actually be
possible for the first time in a generation.
C. the core idea could not be simpler: we need to wean the
American food system off its heavy 20th-century diet of fossil fuel and put it
back on a diet of contemporary sunshine.