Corporal Punishment Outline
OUTLINE FOR PERSUASIVE ESSAY
Strategy for Presenting Content: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence
Listener Needs: Safety, Social, Self-esteem, Self-actualization
Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that non-physical forms of discipline are more ethical and effective.
Thesis Statement: Use of corporal punishment as child discipline is both unethical and ineffective.
“When I was about 20 years old, I met an old pastor’s wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn’t believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time. But one day when her son was four or five, he did something that she felt warranted a spanking – the first of his life. And she told him that he would have to go outside …show more content…
According to Oleg Kaminetskiy of Credit News Digest, “Homicidal deaths of infants and toddlers were usually the result of parental attempts to control child behavior. These deaths appeared to be unintended and related to the physical vulnerability of the child who is smaller than the attacking adult.”
Transition Statement: Corporal punishment of children is not only dangerous, but also unethical.
Main Point Two: Corporal Punishment of Children is Unethical
• No matter how young, each individual has the right to personal space. If a child does not want to be touched, they have that right.
• Who’s the adult in the situation? Who should have mastered self control and be more creative in problem solving?
Journalist Alan E. Kazdin points out that “In this country, if you do the same thing to your dog that you do to your child, you’re more likely to get in trouble for mistreating the dog.” There is something wrong here.
Transition Statement: Still, ethics always lend themselves to opinion. Scientific research is needed to support a claim.
Main Point Three: The Counter Argument – Effectiveness of Corporal
Strategy for Presenting Content: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence
Listener Needs: Safety, Social, Self-esteem, Self-actualization
Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that non-physical forms of discipline are more ethical and effective.
Thesis Statement: Use of corporal punishment as child discipline is both unethical and ineffective.
“When I was about 20 years old, I met an old pastor’s wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn’t believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time. But one day when her son was four or five, he did something that she felt warranted a spanking – the first of his life. And she told him that he would have to go outside …show more content…
According to Oleg Kaminetskiy of Credit News Digest, “Homicidal deaths of infants and toddlers were usually the result of parental attempts to control child behavior. These deaths appeared to be unintended and related to the physical vulnerability of the child who is smaller than the attacking adult.”
Transition Statement: Corporal punishment of children is not only dangerous, but also unethical.
Main Point Two: Corporal Punishment of Children is Unethical
• No matter how young, each individual has the right to personal space. If a child does not want to be touched, they have that right.
• Who’s the adult in the situation? Who should have mastered self control and be more creative in problem solving?
Journalist Alan E. Kazdin points out that “In this country, if you do the same thing to your dog that you do to your child, you’re more likely to get in trouble for mistreating the dog.” There is something wrong here.
Transition Statement: Still, ethics always lend themselves to opinion. Scientific research is needed to support a claim.
Main Point Three: The Counter Argument – Effectiveness of Corporal