Animal Rights

Write a research paper that takes a stand, either for or against, the topic you selected. Your thesis
should make a debatable claim about the topic. One technique for creating a thesis is to mentally
ask yourself a question (do not include the question in your paper) and then turn the question into
a debatable statement. This statement is your thesis statement, which you put in your
introduction and will provide support for in the body of your paper.
Seek out credible, academic sources that make the same claims that you do (what constitutes an
acceptable source is discussed below). Use the sources you find to support your argument by
deepening and enriching it. Anticipate the opposition. Perhaps, there are legitimate disserting
claims that oppose your claims. If so, acknowledge those claims and then provide evidence in the
form of facts from credible, academic sources that dispute the opposing claims.
As you write your paper, be careful not to simply restate what you have read in a source. Instead,
use the source to support your assertions. Do not make the source your assertion. Use transition
words so your paper flows smoothly from one paragraph to the next. Remember to include an
introduction and a conclusion. Make sure each of the body paragraphs, which should start with a
topic sentence summarizing the main idea of the paragraph, works to support the claims you
make in your thesis (do not put evidence, such as direct quotes, in the introduction or
conclusion). Use a concluding sentence, which reinforces the topic sentence, to end the
paragraph. Integrate content from a minimum of four different credible
electronic sources into your research paper.