Outline details

Outline details

One student asked about the details for the outline, and I thought some others might have similar questions. So I am answering here:

Your outline should show how you plan to develop your paper.

“For full credit, I am looking for specificity of research (1), research question and importance of research question (1), backgrounds (1), and methods for moving forward to pursue the question (1).”

I say “specificity” because sometimes I receive assignments that have the vaguest of short phrases in the outline subtopics and details. Background means providing contexts for the topic and question – historical, political, philosophical. Methods – in your case, your research will be based on literature and documents you find to provide details that address your question.

I have attached a sample outline to this announcement (the formatting isn’t perfect – the auto-formatting was just not working for me! I care less about that than being able to see that you are working from a logical course of reasoning with specific details)

SAMPLE :

Your outline should show how you plan to develop your paper.

Example:

Research Question: In what ways are human rights denied to refugee children?

1. Introduction (Background):

8. Over half of the world’s 26 million refugees are children (UNHCR, https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/children-49c3646c1e8.html).
9. Refugee definition (1951 Convention related to the Status of Refugees; rights denied to refugeedenied to refugeeProtocol)
10. Exposure to war and/or other forms of violence
11. Flight from home country to unknown setting
12. Research Question: In what ways are human rights denied to refugee children?
13. Significance: Potential negative psychosocial impacts of these losses that can lead to future impacts on global economy and peace (sources)

1. Article 14 – Right to seek asylum from persecution
2. Examples of numerous European countries refusing to allow refugees entrance
   1. Resulting overcrowding in Greece and Turkey
   2. Lack of resources for shelter, parental employment
   3. Discrimination

III. Article 25 – Right to a standard of living adequate to health and well-being including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services…Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance.

1. Example of Rohingya refugees surviving in flood-soaked areas without adequate food, shelter, medical supplies
   1. Resulting illness, disease, starvation

1. Article 26 – Right to education

3. 7 million refugee children do not attend school. 24% of refugee children attend school as compared to 84% of children who attend globally (https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/education.html)
   1. Lack of education à lack of skills for future occupation
   2. Boredom, unrest
   3. Target population for terrorist groups that promise food, shelter, pay (source)

1. [Perhaps examine similar and extra rights found in the Convention on the Rights of the Child]

1. Remedies

1. Expose signatories to the UDHR and CRC as not fulfilling their obligations. International shaming.
2. Expose UN countries that have not paid their dues, which results in inadequate funding for refugees.
3. Citizen information campaigns à citizen pressure on their governments to provide support and resettle larger numbers of refugees most in need.
4. Specialized international funding (through the World Bank? WHO? IMF?) to provide educational opportunities for refugee children.