Comfort Animals in Campus
Pick ONE of the topics listed below for Project 1:
Colleges and large athletic programs should pay student athletes a salary or stipend.
Bicyclists and motorcyclists should be required by law to wear helmets.
High school teachers should have the right to carry concealed firearms in schools.
Smoking should be prohibited on all college campuses, including in all buildings and outdoors.
Honors students should have the privilege of registering for classes earlier than other students.
Students should have the right to drop out of school at any age.
Comfort animals—such as dogs, cats, ferrets and snakes, that have been recommended to patients by doctors or therapists to ease anxiety, should be allowed in college classrooms.
Explain how and why you agree or disagree with the statement (this will be your argument statement for your argument and will appear in your introduction).
You may opt to use other essays to help support why or how you agree or disagree.
Make sure you give 3-4 reasons in support of your claim as your body paragraph topic sentences and provide explanation and examples to support such.
You will also have an Opposing Viewpoints paragraph before the conclusion as this is the standard argumentation essay organizational structure. You might have a topic sentence that reads something like “Some people believe ________” (state the opposite of your argument or what you believe).
