Research Paper Outline
March 3, 2009
Stem Cells in Treatment of Parkinson's Disease
Introduction:
- Give my own personal experience growing up watching my father's Parkinson's disease progress, limiting his ability to work and enjoy many activities that were everyday life.
- Give background information on stem cells and Parkinson's disease.
- Talk about how the idea of treatment using stem cells gives not only my dad, but my entire family, hope for finding a cure for this disease.
- Thesis: Stem cells could provide a potential cure for Parkinson's disease in a short amount of time, and with new noncontroversial forms of stem cells, we should waste no time in research and the pursuit of a better quality of life for Parkinson's patients.
- First Body Paragraph: Parkinson's Disease
- Causes
- Symptoms
- Current treatments
- Use interview with my dad and the book by Evelyn B. Kelly
- Define what stem cells are and where they are found
- Differentiate between embronic and adult stem cells, and how the use of adult, or somatic, stem cells would eliminate the controversy of stem cells.
- Discuss the past research developments that placed stem cells as a top priority for medical treatment.
- Embryonic stem cells have proved fairly successful in treating similar diseases to Parkinson's disease in mice.
- Somatic stem cells can be researched and developed to be just as useful as embryonic stem cells.
- Discuss how transplantation of stem cells into the brain can reproduce lost neurons that produce dopamine.
- Somatic stem cells should be researched further in order to produce an effective treatment for Parkinson's disease.
- Stem cell therapy could provide the cure for Parkinson's disease.
A very nice introduction - your hook catches my attention and your thesis is clear. The overall organization works, but you will want to think of each number as section rather than a paragraph. Since your information is scientifically and medically complex, you will want to leave room to define your terms, and each paragraph should contain a bite-size chunks of information. Remember to use first-person throughout if needed. It will help make your conclusion as effective as your introduction.
ReplyDeleteVery good outline - you define what you are going to talk about in your paper very well. Great thesis. There is so much you can talk about with this. I feel like you can have a very good argument with this paper and have many sources to pull from. It may be tough to write about though considering it is so complex and scientific but if you can pull it off, I think it will be a great paper! Good luck!
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