I examined a sample paper from the Iowa Youth Institute website. This paper obviously must have done very well, since it was displayed as the Youth Institute's first choice as a paper to use as a model. Therefor it would only make sense if I used what I saw as effective within this paper to implement into mine as well.
Organization: The paper is perfectly organized into separate sections in the order that makes the most sense for what the paper is trying to accomplish.
The topic of the paper is "Haiti: Sanitizing drinking water".
There is an introduction that relates this problem to the whole world, explaining how comfortably we live while Haitians struggle for clean water.
It then moves to section one, "Haitian Living" and gives two paragraphs on their lives.
Section two is "Set-backs" which gives one paragraph on what makes it difficult for Haiti and it's citizens to not only receive clean drinking water but to live in general.
The third section is "Current Water Situation" Which obviously explains their current way of obtaining water and what makes it so scarce, dirty, and difficult.
The fourth section is "Haitians need for clean water" which explains the effects of what would happen if they were to obtain their clean water, and why it is so crucial that they get this water (hot climate, less diseases, economy would benefit, etc.)
Section five is "Aftermath of unclean water" which explains the diseases and deaths and dehydration spread throughout the country because of the lack of water.
Section six is "Solutions" which multiple viable solutions are proposed to solve the issue.
Section seven is "Clay filters" which seems to be the best solution for this issue therefor getting it's own section and three paragraphs about it.
Section eight is "other possibilities" explaining other smaller ideas that could deal with the issue.
Section 9 is sponsors which is how these ideas that were proposed would be paid for.
Then there are the resources with cited sources.
I very much enjoyed the way that this paper was outlined, it made a lot of sense and I will most likely outline my paper the same way. It was around four and a half pages including the cited sources, single spaced, with no indentions, double spaced between sections.
Glad you found it helpful to read a sample. Sounds like a great way to organize the paper. An introduction where you explain the problem by comparing what we have to what the underdeveloped country has is a good idea for your audience. The solutions piece will be the key part we address in more depth after the paper is turned in for the contest.
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