Planning Essay 4

My four perspectives for my issue are 1. the government should take a more active and judicial role in the battle against obesity; 2. Government control over obesity-related factors is an infringement of civil liberties, 3. the government should take a more indirect role in the form of policies referred to as nudges; and 4. We do not have enough knowledge or information about the obesity epidemic yet, so no action should be taken until effective actions are researched. My topic sentence is that obesity is a new and modern health crisis, and since it is fairly new, there is much debate and different options over how to solve it. 

I am leaning towards writing a policy paper. My policy paper will either argue that the government should implement more "nudges" to make a stronger effect, or I will argue that more research needs to be done in order to find something that will be successful. I have to think more about which stance I would relate more to, and could formulate an effective argument for. 

I believe I do have an ample amount of sources in order to write this paper. All of my sources are reliable and credible, and provide extremely useful information. Each one varies in opinion and argument. However, I may do further research on empirical data to have a little more support for my proposed policy, and to appeal to the logos of my argument, making it more effective and persuasive.