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Brainstorming: Your Position Paper

Topic:
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(Working Thesis)

Target Audience:

Definition of Problem:

BODY PARAGRAPHS:

Stage One of Strategy Proof of problem

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Stage Two of Strategy Causes for pattern
Reasons for continued existence of problem and/or origins of pattern
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Stage Three of Strategy Solutions

Suggestions to change or diminish this problem over time
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Once you have brainstormed the possibilities for each stage, find similar items and place them
together. Try using a letter or number system to identify similar ones, and then combine the similar
ones to create a smaller sample of paragraph topics. Then, number the order of the paragraph

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topics so that you can place them in a draft of a paper plan. TIP: Combine relevant example topics
with relevant consequence topics in the problem stage.