This is a very general outline that was later revised several times throughout my research process. This outline was able to help me organize the research I was collecting. I constantly made notes where I would realize that I needed to expand on a topic. In this outline the reader can also notice that the topic sentences are argumentative but do not connect with each other. This is a skill I learned later in the writing process. During this stage of my essay, I did not have a clear format of my essay but a vague idea. Throughout the writing process I constantly referred back to this outline in order to ensure I maintained organization throughout the essay. Although I did learn the necessity of an outline in Writing 37, this essay consisted of a lot of information that often challenged my ability to construct one.  

Zulema Cuevas

Prof. Fischer

Writing 39C

04 November 2015

AP DRAFT 1

1. Introduction
1. Thesis: Child poverty is detrimental to their educational achievement and requires urgent attention. Because, housing costs are the heaviest economic burden of a family living in poverty , expanding housing voucher programs is the best solution to be taken in order to relieve stress from the family and ultimately provide a better environment for the student.
2. Body paragraph
1. Purpose: Summarize the effects of child poverty on education. Connect the environmental impacts of child poverty on their education.
2. Topic Sentence: The chronic stress of living in child poverty on the family does not allow for the child to receive full attention from the parent, this further leads to cognitive development issues and impedes the future of the student.
3. Evidence: Use HCP paragraph, source “Family income, parental education and brain structure children and adolescents”
3. Body Paragraph
1. Purpose: Explain past solutions that were proposed in the past. The war on child poverty implemented several programs. They worked but then did not. Why? the funding began to get cut off. Explain that it is this constant battle of funding. add your own explanantion.
2. Topic Sentence: The long lasting fight against poverty taught America that this issue is not an easy one to overcome.
3. Evidence: HCP Essay, Find research on why the programs from then are not working now.
4. Multimodal Artifact: increase of poverty
4. Body Paragraph:
1. Purpose: What are people thinking of doing now? They are proposing several solutions that require money. One of them being to simply give people living in poverty money. Explain why this does not work.
2. Topic Sentence: Many critics are proposing several solutions, one of them being to simply provide impoverished families with financial assistance.
3. Evidence: Source that explains that direct money will not teach a child responsibilities “Money alone can not solve problem of ingrained poverty
5. Body Paragraph:
1. Purpose: What are people thinking now? Explain Child Care Tax credit expansion as a bad solution that people are considering because does not make an impact.
2. Topic Sentence: Critics have also proposed to expand the child care tax credit but have failed to understand that this solution would not have much of an impact. Incorporate the cost/benefit framework.
3. Evidence: Source http://goo.gl/Lh8EF8 and http://goo.gl/ysOcYE
6. Body Paragraph
1. Purpose: Explain why minimum wage increase in both unrealistic and will have less of an impact on child poverty. incorporate
2. Topic Sentence: Raising the minimum wage is another highly debated solution that critics find could solve the issue of child poverty but
3. Source:
7. Body Paragraph
1. Purpose: Introduce solution What it is. explain how it is currently helping but not as much as it should be. Part of the SNAP benefits.
2. Topic Sentence: The
3. Evidence:http://goo.gl/WYl2fx explains that funding is decreasing that is a problem.  Source that says SNAP benefits help.
8. Body Paragraph:
1. Purpose: Explain the evidence based effects behind a child why this is a good solution
2. Topic Sentence: Child poverty is paired with several chronic stresses that include economic burdens that will be decreased with the expansion of affordable housing.
3. Evidence: http://goo.gl/ysOcYE http://www.nccp.org/projects/housing.html
9. Body Paragraph:
1. Purpose: Talk about a bill that is for this. PATHWAYS OUT OF POVERTY
2. *note: do I focus on one of the solutions that are trying to work for this or several of the programs do I talk about all of them of focus on one. -Introduced before or after previous paragraph.
10. Conclusion:
1. Summary: Child poverty’s adverse affects on the child’s education is a problem that needs to be largely addressed in the aspect of poverty in itself.