Okay, lots of panic about how to make your body paragraphs. Let’s take it one step at a time. You brainstormed a list of chunks.
Let’s say my research question is “How can we stop human trafficiking?”
And my chunks are
- A definition of human trafficking
- Where is human trafficking happening?
- What have other people done to stop it?
- Things we can still do to help stop it
Well, then my first paragraph is my first chunk: A definition of human trafficking.
I’ll pull up all my notes that are labeled with chunk 1.
Then, I’ll try to write these notes into an explanation of my chunk. This explanation will be a body paragraph. My body paragraph might look like this:
When writers talk about human trafficking, they’re really discussing a “cluster of human rights issues” including forced labor, migrant labor, prostitution and sexual slavery (Smith, 12). Victims of trafficking are “coerced or tricked or sometimes even drugged into going to work in demeaning or unsafe conditions for little or no pay” (Ryingstad). Often, the people who have manipulated the victims earn profit that the victim should have earned (Smith, 12). Currently, UNICEF estimates that there are 1.7 million trafficking victiums worldwide each year, predominantly in Asia and Africa (Ryingstad). However, according to the UNESCO Trafficking Statistics project, “numbers take on a life of their own, gaining acceptance through repetition” and many statistics like these are “accepted an unverified” because the issue is so “emotive” (UNESCO Trafficking Statistics Project). Aside from emotional reasons for unsubstantiated statistics, three other elements make it difficult to track trafficking. First, various conflicting definitions of trafficking being used by a wide variety of human rights groups means that few groups know what they’re actually counting (Smith, 12). Second, shifts in trafficking trends related to wars and natural disasters and ever-changing underground world of traffickers themselves make it difficult to find a reliable way of maintaining trafficking statistics (UNESCO Trafficking Statistics Project).
Yours may not sound so fancy. And that’s okay. :) The important thing is to get all your information in there!
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