1. Organization & Research

2. Presentation Organization Objectives Introduction Body Conclusion Documentation Transition

3. Research  Your experience  Library  Observation  Interviews  Surveys  Internet

4. Experience  Be systematic and take notes while brainstorming  Have I taken a course?  Do I have life experience?  Have I written anything?  Have I read something?  Have I discussed or conversed with someone?

5. Library  Searching the library:  Catalogue  Books http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/its/lib/ http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/its/lib/  Video  Periodical Indexes  Book Reviews  Government documents

6. Internet  Search Engines  Boolean searching http://pandia.com/goalgetter/4.htmlhttp://pandia.com/goalgetter/4.html  Credibility  Citations

7. Observation, Interviews, Surveys  How to maintain Objectivity?  How to maintain Accuracy?  What kind of Questions?  Ethics?  Samples?

8. Organize, Investigate & Present

9. Evidence and Support  Examples  Vivid images  Narratives  Comparison/Contrast  Testimony  Statistics  Definitions  Analogies

10. General McCaffrey says the Dutch approach to drugs “hasn’t worked.” The Facts say: It has!

11. Drug War vs. Legalization IssueUnited StatesThe Netherlands Use of Marijuana by older teens (1994) 38%30% Use of marijuana by 15- year-olds (in 1995) 34%29% Heroin addicts (in 1995) 430 per 100,000160 per 100,000 Murder rate (in 1996) 8.22 per 100,0001.8 per 100,000 Crime-related deaths 8.2 per 100,000 (1995) 1.8 per 100,000 (1994) Incarceration rate (1997) 645 per 100,00073 per 100,000 Per capita spending on drug-related law enforcement $81$27

12. Are we so committed to past mistakes that we cannot shift to more effective strategies? Visit Drug War Facts at: www.drugsense.org www.drugsense.org Facts based on official statistics from Holland and the United States. Citations available @ http://www.netherlands-embassy.org/http://www.netherlands-embassy.org/

13. “I'M PROOF: THE WAR ON DRUGS IS WORKING” http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1133/a01.html?999

14. Definitions  Denotative  Dictionary  Connotative  Experiential

15. Analogy  Simile  Like or AS  Metaphor

16. Organize Logos

17. Investigate Logos Ethos

18. Logos Ethos Pathos Present