"You are the director of the Canadian healthcare system and you have been hired to propose the same system in the U.S. Your arguments will be heard by Congress and the American public."

"You are the director of the Canadian healthcare system and you have been hired to propose the same system in the U.S. Your arguments will be heard by Congress and the American public." Paper details: Write a persuasive paper using the Toulmin argumentative strategy about the topic you sign up for. Be sure to take the perspective assigned. Develop a narrow thesis statement and be sure the thesis runs through your entire paper. Make sure everything in your paper is directly relevant to your thesis. Anything other than the assigned topic and perspective will result in failure. You will be graded on all of the following criteria. Any failure in any one of the following areas may result in failure of the paper. For example, if every other word is misspelled, you will lose more than just 30 points. Think of deficiencies as a hole in a ship; if it’s big enough the water will rush in and your boat will sink. Basics: 30 • 5 pages of text (not including reference page and visual). Anything under a full 5 pages is disqualified. • This paper must be written in third person. Do not use “I” ever. • Font should be double-spaced and regular New Times Roman 12 point. Mechanics: 35 • Correct grammar and spelling Organization and Development: 60 • A sharp sense of beginning and end with a detailed introduction and conclusion • The development and focus of an argumentative thesis • Organization of at least 4 major points that are logically ordered Research and Documentation: 75 • Support with research and evidence. Each paper must use the minimum of two books, three peer reviewed scholarly journal articles from the Wake Tech library database, and two but no more than three credible websites (.gov or .edu.) Wikipedia should never be used as a source. Research must be credible and must be cited in MLA format with a Works Cited page that does not count as a page number. • At least one block quote in the paper, but no more than two (at 1/4 a page each) in addition to the smaller quotes. • A visual (this must be subtracted from page count) Rhetorical Modes and Strategies: 50 • A major comparison as a point or part of a point example • Causal analysis of the cause and effects of the issue or a process analysis • Avoid logic fallacies • Audience awareness