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Question Option: This is your chosen question,
typed in complete sentence form.
Thesis Statement with three points. This is a
complete sentence, listing the points of
development for each body paragraph.
Paragraph 1
Topic Sentence: The topic sentence supports
the thesis and introduces its paragraph
 Supporting Points
 Details
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examples, explanations, reference to the
reading, etc.
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Topic Sentence: The topic sentence supports
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Foundations 1: Developing College Communications
COMM160 Sec:
How Could Workplaces
Accommodate People with Poor
Mental Health
Workplaces could accommodate People with Poor
Mental Health by
Providing self-assessment, providing a safe work
environment and providing flexible scheduling.
Doing self-assessment for staff from time
to time. According to (Lamphier2021)
Worker’s productivity has greatly
reduced which is as a result of
unreasonable job expectations. Self-
assessment this will be of great benefit to
both the staff and workplace.
Secondly, providing a safe work
environment, regardless of people race,
color or belief workplace should provide
a very conducive environment for people
with mental health because people
spend half of their day at work in most
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cases. (Lamphier 2021) says that in the

workplace, roughly four percent of adults
are clinically depressed at any given time.

Paragraph 3
Topic Sentence: The topic sentence supports
the thesis and introduces its paragraph
 Supporting Points
 Details
 Supporting points/details provide
examples, explanations, reference to the
reading, etc.
Thirdly, workplace must provide flexible
schedules for people who are not
mentally stable, this will allow them to
have time to plan for other things such as
attending medical appointments,
meeting up with the therapist etc.

In conclusion it is very important for

Concluding Sentence: The concluding workplaces to encourage the employees
sentence provides a sense of closure, and to be healthy mentally and physically
reinforces the controlling idea.
active.

Reference

LastName, Initial. (2021). Title of reading. In G. Lipschutz, S. Scarry, & J. Scarry (Eds.), The
Canadian writer’s workplace. (9th ed., Unit V: Major Readings). Nelson Education.

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