Whether you’re applying to college, trying to get your driver’s license or waiting for treatment at a hospital, you will find that the Government and the company’s policy affects almost everything you do. Every political attempt to do the same: establish rules or guidelines that lead to equitable and rational results. This is not always achieved, however, and you can explore these failures in an argumentative essay. Before you begin to write your paper, identify a central policy you want to examine, and then build your argument from the research, you make.

Developing Ideas

Before you begin to write your paper, you need to develop general ideas on what topic you would like to solve. Your teacher can narrow down these topic ideas for you, but you will still need to develop concrete ideas though. Start by asking yourself, what type of policy you are most interested in, and then move on to a series of questions or arguments about this policy. For example, if you are interested in foreign policy, can you wonder why it was United States policy to go to war in Iraq or, initially, to participate in the UNITED NATIONS.

Domestic Policy

When you have developed original ideas and asked a few important questions that you would like to solve, you can begin to narrow down your ideas by doing some research. If you are interested in domestic policy, start with to visit with people that have been affected by the policy that you are interested in. For example, if you are wondering what policies must change to emergency room wait times to fall visit a waiting room at a hospital and talk to people who are waiting for or with the hospital’s administrators. These people may be able to identify the most important areas for you to pursue with the argument. Once you have spoken with the people concerned, make more specific research, such as to visit a Government Agency website or read journal articles and books on politics.

Foreign policy

Unlike the process in order to narrow down your ideas for a domestic political argument paper, you may not be able to talk with people who are directly affected by foreign policy. But you can talk with them, developing foreign policy, such as State officials and foreign aid workers. These people may be able to tell you how foreign policy affects people in other countries and provide you with vital statistics that will further your research. As you would with a domestic political argument paper, use your conversations with foreign political workers to narrow your focus further. Find magazines, such as “Foreign Policy”, Department websites, such as the u.s. Department of State, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs books to find important data and sources to cite in your paper.

Organizing Your Argument

Now that you have narrowed your focus to a central political you are interested in, and a specific question that you would like to tackle, it’s time to generate ideas about the organizational structure of paper. The people you have talked to and reading you’ve done, should lead this, but you still may need to focus the idea further. For example, there may be dozens of policies that need to switch to reduce emergency room wait times, but you can’t tackle them all in your paper. Use the arguments that you have concrete evidence to back up, and try to use arguments based off earlier in your paper. Takes wait times example again, can you believe that more doctors need to be hired to reduce the waiting time, but if there are not enough doctors graduating to fill these roles, the issue of increasing medical school spaces first in your paper.