Outline

Research Paper Outline

Research Question: In what ways is being vaccinated better than being unvaccinated?

Introduction:

Thesis: Vaccines have become a huge controversy throughout families and doctors across the country. All children should be required by law to be immunized with major vaccines because there is a high effectiveness in preventing diseases and it benefits the entire community.

Argument 1--

Topic Sentence: I always remember that feeling of anxiety when the nurse rolls up my sleeve and cleans off a little area on my arm. I anticipate that pinching and tightening feeling, but in the end I know that the small amount of pain is worth it. It has been proven that vaccines have a high effectiveness in preventing major diseases.

Examples:

-Vaccine effectiveness, in terms of percentage, ranges from the low seventies and eighties for influenza or pertussis, to the nineties for measles and up to 100% for human papilloma virus and hepatitis B. (Walkinshaw)

-The number of times you are vaccinated for a specific disease, like mumps, decreases the likelihood of contracting the virus. (Crowcroft et al 2011)

Explain:

Counterargument: Some doctors and researchers would disagree with saying that vaccines are completely effective in removing the chances of an infection. (Clinical: Journal watch)

Refute: Although this may be true, vaccines still improve the chances of protection. (Clinical: Journal Watch)

Argument 2—

Topic Sentence: Everyone gets that fearful feeling in the pit of their stomach when they hear that a school has been shut down because of insufficient students. This is usually due to influenza or better yet a more threatening disease like the mumps. Then you sit there and think how this happened, since most parents had their child vaccinated for infections like these. But, it only takes the spread of a rumor about vaccines being harmful to stop parents from vaccinating their children. This then leads to outbreaks, like ones that tend to close down schools. Vaccines benefit the entire community because they prevent outbreaks like these.

Examples:

-The prevention of serious diseases requires at least 95 percent of all children to have their first round of vaccinations and boosters in the following years. (Drennan)

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