Outline

Outline

Introduction: 

       Hook: The population of elderly parents who have lost their only child increases in China. 

       Motive: 
       
              Why it matters: It causes social pension problems.
              
              What others say: It affects gender structure.

              Unique: One-child policy/Family planning program causes this problem.
       
       Thesis: Family planning program should be banned in China because its disadvantages.

       Map: Hook. Explain the history of family planning program in China. Thesis. Show its disadvantages. How to solve it. Conclusion.

Problem:

       What: 1) The population structure imbalance
                   
                    2) Affect the economy sustainable development
                 
                    3) Affect social stability and harmony

Solution:
       What: 1) Relax family planning program
             
                    2) Ban family planing program thoroughly
     
       Why: Avoid disadvantages

Conclusion: Restate thesis. Call action to ban family planning program.

Summary: Annoying ways people use sources

This essay written by Kyle D. Stedman talks about six annoying ways people use sources and how to fix them:

1. Armadillo Roadkill: Using a quotation without introducing it first.
Fix: Signal your readers that a quotation is coming and state who the quotation came from.

2. Dating Spider-Man: Starting or ending a paragraph with a quotation.
Fix: Guide your readers to the quotation and then interpret it.

3. Uncle Barry and His Encyclopedia of Useless Information: Using too many quotations in series.
Fix: Return to each quotation and decide why it's there.

4. Am I in the Right Movie: Failing to integrate a quotation into the grammar of the preceding sentence.
Fix: Read your essay out loud to someone else.

5. I Can't Find the Stupid Link: No connection between the first letter of a parenthetical citation and the first letter of a works cited entry.
Fix: Make sure that the first word of the works cited entry is the word you use in your in-text citation.

6. I Swear I Did Some Research: Dropping in a citation without making it clear what information came from that source.
Fix: Write the sentences before the citation that will tell your readers what information came from where.

Three possible topics/problems

1) Place more road signs to remind drivers to pay more attention to the small animals. (fix a problem)

2) No garbage classification causes heavy mental pollution in my hometown. (call for people to care)

3) Restore KMT's contribution in the Anti-Japanese War. (call for more research)

Summary: Body In Trouble

In "Body in trouble", Nancy Mairs mainly talks about how difficulty she deals with her disability. She suffers from depression, agoraphobia, and multiple sclerosis because she has lost the use of her arms and legs. She writes about the her life on the wheelchair to let audience know how hard the disabled live. She is desired that people can sympathize the disabled and to understand how hard they are living.

Summary: How to tame a wild tongue

In "How to tame a wild tongue", Gloria Anzaldua accuses that the American mainstream culture abuses her own culture with her own experience. She illustrates that language is a way to express your own identity. However, from what she writes, she was told that she has to speak English without accent of Mexican when she was at school which means she has to completely give up her own language. Also, when she talks with people and people notice her accent, they treat her differently. She feels frustrated when people look down her language. As she said, " I am my language". She is struggling with the dilemma between English and her own language and she thinks one day she can express her identity with her own language free.

Summary: If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?

This article written by James Baldwin mainly talks about why the black english is a language. It explains how language is produced and what functions does language have. Also, it starts from several examples to explain aspects of language. It talks about several European french-speaking countries which cannot understand each other to illuminate the difference. In addition, it refers to irish to explain the importance of language. It also explains how black english influences american history through jazz.

Prison studies by Malcolm X

This article mainly talks about how Malcolm, an uneducated prisoner, found he was ignorant and changed himself. Having conversation with Bimbi who was his inmate, he realized how poor knowledge he had. So he decided to read more book. However, he could not understand many sentences from books because of his poor knowledge. So he got a dictionary and started copying it word for word. After time, he began to read and there was no stopping him. After day by day, he read more ad more books and enchanted his enducation by reading. He thought prison enabled him for more intensively. This article uses logos of facts and ethos of his experience to convince readers to read more.