WRITING PROGRAM – ENGLISH IV

PERSUASIVE ESSAY OUTLINE

GROUP MEMBERS: Cristina Viñanzaca, Aldo Salvador, Byron Vizcarra

CLASS: 13
DATE: Tuesday, May 31

INSTRUCTIONS

 Read the essay prompt and take a position. Then, write the persuasive
essay outline using the template. In the introduction, please highlight the
hook, transition/background and thesis. The checklists will help the
group self-evaluation of each part.

 Use the checklists

ESSAY PROMPT
Ecuadorian undergraduate students must pay for their education. Do you agree
or disagree? Take a stand and provide evidence to support it.

PERSUASIVE ESSAY OUTLINE TEMPLATE

INTRODUCTION
(Write the complete paragraph that includes hook, transition/background
information/ thesis – use the colors to highlight each part)

As is known, in the years prior to 2007, students whose families could not cover the
cost of tuition during the university day were totally excluded from the educational
system. The new legal framework allowed the National Government to recover free
public education by eliminating enrollment and providing resources to eliminate barriers
to access to education. With these exposed antecedents, we do not agree that
Ecuadorian undergraduate students should pay for their education and this due to that
higher education must be guaranteed by the government, because of the right to higher
education declared in the constitution, and because of the global and national
development that it implies.

Use the checklist below to make sure you comply with all the items (self-
evaluation)
INTRODUCTION YES NO
Does the hook catch the

readers’ attention?
Does the background
information or transition

connect the hook with the
thesis?
Does the thesis contain: 
Claim + three arguments? Are
the points/arguments/ideas of
 the thesis in a parallel
structure?

BODY
PARAGRAPH 1

TOPIC SENTENCE:

Education for Ecuadorian undergraduate students must be guaranteed by the state.

SUPPORTING IDEA 1:

Access to education must be a tool that allows generating spaces of inclusion for
undergraduate students in Ecuador.

DETAILS
Starting from education and in any context, spaces must be generated that include all
citizens. In this sense, the evaluation constitutes a curricular element that can serve for
this purpose or to exclude.

SUPPORTING IDEA 2:

The protection of the rights of Ecuadorian undergraduate students should be

disseminated

DETAILS:

The results of standardized tests for measuring university performance are a risky
scenario from the point of view of the process of acceptance or rejection of the diversity
and plurality of the human being.

SUPPORTING IDEA 3:

The constitution establishes that third-level higher education is free.

DETAILS:

Article 356 of the Constitution of the Republic, among other principles, establishes that
third-level public higher education will be free, and that this free education is linked to
the academic responsibility of the students.

CONCLUDING SENTENCE OF PARAGRAPH 1

As a summary of the aforementioned, access to free education, the spaces that are
generated by being part of the third level educational system and the legal regulations
must be protected and guaranteed by the Ecuadorian State.

PARAGRAPH 2

TOPIC SENTENCE:
Higher education was established as a right for everyone.
SUPPORTING IDEA 1:
Thus, achieving equality in this aspect as well.

DETAILS (examples/anecdote/argument to expand the supporting idea):

Equality would not be applied if a person with sufficient economic resources can
access higher education and one with a different situation cannot access it.

SUPPORTING IDEA 2:
Equitable access to higher education for all will be achieved.

DETAILS:
There has been a long struggle for equality and equity, and applying it in this area is
also an advance for society.

SUPPORTING IDEA 3:
Develops social and cultural integration skills.

DETAIL:
By not being restricted by any type of classification, the integration of different cultures
at the country level would be achieved, allowing for greater adaptation.

CONCLUDING SENTENCE OF PARAGRAPH 2:

Putting access to higher education into practice would give every person the
opportunity to fulfill his or her right.

PARAGRAPH 3

TOPIC SENTENCE:
Access to higher education for all will enable global and national progress.

SUPPORTING IDEA 1:
Higher education achieves social improvement.

DETAILS (examples/anecdote/argument to expand the supporting idea):

Education also helps to reduce the number of people who want to live off other
people's money, which will result in a much more socially friendly society.

SUPPORTING IDEA 2:
In addition to achieving a country's economic growth.

DETAILS:
Having access to education will result in more people able to generate employment,
and even apply for jobs and repay the benefits they obtained with the country.

SUPPORTING IDEA 3:
Having unrestricted access even leads to health development.

DETAIL:
Physicians are prepared to develop technologies with the purpose of discovering cures
for diseases over time.

CONCLUDING SENTENCE OF PARAGRAPH 3:

This way, a worldwide development of the company will be achieved that will cover
various aspects of the existing problems.
Use the checklist below to make sure you comply with all the items
INTRODUCTION YES NO
Does each topic sentence 
contain the topic and a
controlling idea?
Does each supporting idea 
refers to the topic sentence?
Does each detail expand the 
supporting idea?

Evidence of your meeting (s)