Should age matter

in a relationship?
 Should corporal
punishment be applied
in classrooms today?
Do people who commit
heinous crimes deserve
death penalty?
Should parents talk about
sex to their children?
 Are you in favor of
Same Sex Marriage?
OBJECTIVES:
⚫ Define what a position paper is
⚫ Identify situations in which a
position paper may be effectively
used in the present society
⚫ Write various kinds of position paper
What are you expressing when you are choosing
your answer?
In giving your reason or opinion, what have you
just stressed or pointed out?
How did you decide which option to choose?
As a youth, do you think your voice should be
heard?
What other situations which you think you should
stress your position?
Now that we see the
importance of position,
let’s see the importance of
paper…
WRITING A
POSITION PAPER
 A position paper
presents the writer’s
stand or viewpoint on a
particular issue.
POSITION PAPER
⚫It entails outlining arguments
and proposing the course of
action; by doing so, you are
already taking part of a larger
debate.
PARTS OF A
POSITION PAPER

1. INTRODUCTION
2. BODY
3. CONCLUSION
 1. Introduction
⚫Start with an introduction which
presents the issue while grabbing the
attention of readers.
⚫Define the issue and discuss its
background.
⚫Provide a general statement of your
position via your thesis statement.
2. Body
⚫ State your main arguments.
⚫ Provide sufficient evidence for each
argument such as statistical data,
interviews with experts, and
testimonies.
⚫ Provide counterarguments against the
possible weaknesses of your arguments,
3. Conclusion
⚫ Restate your position and main
arguments.
⚫ Suggest a course of action.
⚫ State what makes your position
superior and more acceptable.
⚫ End with a powerful closing statement
such as a quotation, a challenge, or a
question.
 A Position Paper of Drug Testing of High School and College
Students
Drug testing is a way to evaluate the type and the possibly the
amount of legal and especially for illegal drugs substances taken by a
person. Drug testing can be performed from small samples taken of
your fingernails, saliva, or more commonly, your blood, urine, or hair.
Almost 10 percent of the nation’s teens report the use of illicit drugs
The writer within the last month. The drug testing in high school and college The writer
sets up students is an important and ultimately one of the best solution made his/her
opinion
the issue by the government officials to reduce and stop the increasing amount
of young drug users in schools, universities, and state colleges.
The writer
Schools have made the policy of random drug testing on students to provides
serves as a warning to not get into peer pressure. Because I believe “a a little
friend in deed, won’t make you smoke that weed.” background
 Drug testing in school has resulted in accurate, powerful,
and a positive outcome in attempting to reduce the amount of
young drug users in school. The purpose of drug testing is not
to catch whose using an illegal drugs, but to prevent them
from using it in the first place. Surely, there should be action
The writer taken to punish those criminals. The current method to attack
presents drugs is at the source, by imprisoning dealers and breaking
opposing the supply chain are not so succeeding. Why drug testing isThe writer
gives
points so important and necessary to be implemented, because it isexplanation
important to protect teenagers at the age were they’re easily about his/ her
get influenced by the peers and at the time when their attitude opinion
to education greatly affects their entire lives.
 Some sacrifice of human rights is necessary to
The writer eliminate the drug problem. Drug testing is a
presents
suggestion
simple mechanism for examining the human body
to because there is a multiple options of detecting it
solve The writer
problem by supplying urine, hair, or simply a breath. Theseends
on drug
addiction
small sample helps to detect the common drugs with an appeal
by providing
among like methamphetamines, cocaine, and heroin. its
students
Also, if you know that you are not breaking the advantages
law then there’s nothing to fear of.
GUIDELINES IN
WRITING A POSITION
PAPER
1. Choose an issue.
The issue should be:
• Debatable
• Current and relevant
• Written in a question form,
answerable by yes or no.
• Narrow and manageable
2. Begin the writing process by
conducting an in-depth
research on the issue.
3. Make sure to define
unfamiliar terms when you
first mention them.
4. Be aware of the various
positions about the issue and
explain and analyze them
objectively.
5. Reflect on your position and
identify its weakness.
6. Cite valid and reliable sources
to establish the credibility of
your arguments.
7. View the issue in a different
perspective so you can present
a unique approach.
8. Limit your position paper to
two pages.
9. Analyze your target readers
and align your arguments
to their beliefs, needs,
interests, and motivations.
10. Summarize the other side’s
counterarguments and use
various evidence and data to
refute them.
11. Use an active voice as much
as possible to achieve a
dynamic and firm tone.
12.Arrange your evidence
logically using an
inductive or deductive
approach.
13.Check your argument for
fallacies and eliminate them.
14.Use ethical, logical, and
emotional appeal.