Reference no: EM133289502

Assignment:

Review your peer's sentence outlines, and restate, the claim being made (the thesis) and the arguments that will support it (expressed in the topic sentences). effectively paraphrase of your peer's outline without reusing much of the original wording, try this technique:

• Read the outline a few times, until you feel like you have a good understanding of it.
• Put it aside and don't look back at it as you paraphrase.

Research question: Due to recent increased crime rates in the United States how do we determine the most significant contributing factors?

Working thesis: The most significant contributing factors of increased crime rates in the U.S. are the inherit lack of detention, changes in sentencing guidelines, accountability, and an overall sense of lawlessness following the Covid-19 pandemic.

Topic sentence 1: The most significant contributing factors to increased crime rates cannot be singular, but a combination of multiple issues derived from the pandemic.

Topic Sentence 2: The relationships between inherent lack of detention, reductions in sentencing guidelines, and the loss of accountability all correlating to impacts on crime rates.

Topic Sentence 3: The sense of lawlessness created by reductions in police forces and the limitations stemming from mass protests following the pandemic demanding police reform, defunding, or abolishment.