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Organization & Research

Presentation OrganizationObjectives

Introduction

Body

Conclusion

Documentation

Transition

Transition

Research Your experience Library Observation Interviews Surveys Internet

Experience

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

Library

Searching the library:Catalogue

Books http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/its/lib/Video

Periodical IndexesBook ReviewsGovernment documents

Internet

Search EnginesBoolean searching http://pandia.com/goalgetter/4.html

Credibility Citations

Observation, Interviews, Surveys

How to maintain Objectivity? How to maintain Accuracy? What kind of Questions? Ethics? Samples?

Organize, Investigate & Present

Evidence and Support Examples

Vivid imagesNarrativesComparison/Contrast

Testimony Statistics Definitions Analogies

General McCaffrey says the Dutch approach to drugs “hasn’t worked.”

The Facts say: It has!

Drug War vs. LegalizationIssue United States The 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 100,000 160 per 100,000Murder rate (in 1996) 8.22 per 100,000 1.8 per 100,000Crime-related deaths 8.2 per 100,000

(1995)1.8 per 100,000

(1994)Incarceration rate (1997) 645 per 100,000 73 per 100,000Per capita spending on drug-related law enforcement

$81 $27

Are we so committed to past mistakes that we cannot shift to

more effective strategies?

Visit Drug War Facts at: www.drugsense.org

Facts based on official statistics from Holland and the United States. Citations available @ http://www.netherlands-embassy.org/

“I'M PROOF: THE WAR ON DRUGS IS WORKING”

http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1133/a01.html?999

DefinitionsDenotative

DictionaryConnotative

Experiential

Analogy

SimileLike or AS

Metaphor

Organize

Logos

Investigate

Logos

Ethos

Logos

Ethos

Pathos

Present