Proposing a Solution. Defend with evidence your thesis, a proposed solution to a problem. Errors made with this assignment. a) Everyone writing about obesity. You should think of these essays as addresses to 100 random people. Assuming that anyone reading your essay 4 is fat and here’s a diet/exercise program is an infomercial, not an essay. b) Demanding Utopia. Example: A 2015 list said the top three alcoholic nations were Russia, Hungary, and Moldova. If you have a proposed solution to alcoholism, do Mr. Miller Summer 2017 – 5 you want to eliminate it from the face of the Earth, or do you want things to be not as bad in America as Russia in 2015? What choice works? c) In the argument between statisticians and the experts and political culture, picking political culture. Example: Circa 2017, we don’t have out-of-control problems in the whole of America with violent crime and voter fraud, according to the statisticians, experts, and scientists. A portion of our political culture says otherwise. d) Not spending the majority of your draft discussing your solution. e) It is an error to say “Just make it illegal.” Example: America had a problem with alcoholism, early in the 20th century. (AA didn’t exist yet.) Prohibition didn’t solve it. It helped to create organized crime.