How to Write a Research Essay With Outline for Autism

In order to write a research essay with outline about the neurological disease autism, you must first research and consider the questions that autism raises, then present a balanced argument, and end it with your conclusions. The essay can examine different aspects of the disease, such as the nature, causes and cures for autism. Whatever approach you choose, a successful and viable essay must be balanced and judicious.

Things You'll Need

• Research tools, including Google, news websites, public library and medical databases

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Instructions

Useful Steps for Writing the Essay

• 1

  As the discovery and research of autism are quite new, most of the latest resources will be located handily on the web. Start with Google to search for the most popular autism sites, which will provide you with community, as well as perspective on the controversies behind the disease. Some popular ones include Autism Speaks and the Autism Society Of America (see Resources). Both sites maintain blogs.

  Next, do a news search, and then do a publications search on autism in a medical database. Write down the results of the autism studies. Finally, call a local library to see if their card and publications catalogues list any older books, papers or articles written about autism.

• 2

  While conducting this research, think hard about the facts, as well as the emotions behind them, in the autism debate. What is the overall tone of the blogs' participants regarding autism, its cause and its cures? Does any sort of balance or critique need to be injected before reporting on them in the essay? Regarding the medical publications, do these discount the feelings or instincts about autism by the folks on the autism blogs, or encourage them? Finally, as far as older materials are concerned, it might be interesting to note how the nature or diagnoses of autism have changed over the years.

• 3

  Now that the research is done, put together a logical outline. Choose the formatting style that will best suit the work, and use the active voice when writing. It should look roughly like this:

  A. State some discovered issues about autism that you will write about
  a) Subheading, example: discovered facts, with cited research
  b) Subheading, if desired
  c) Subheading
  B. Set up the query.
  a) Explain one argument regarding the uncovered facts, with cited research
  b) Explain another side, if there is one, with cited research
  c) Explain a third, if necessary
  C. The outcome of the essay
  a) Explain in detail the logic about your conclusions about autism, based on your research.

• 4

  Consider adding some conclusions or suggestions about the future of autism, and your essay's thesis, based on your reading. You could suggest that cures for autism have or haven't made a lot of progress, compared to something like breast cancer. Try conducting a mini-study on cure rates for 20th century diseases. You could also make recommendations as to how the government could get more involved in autism research, or perhaps float an idea about how autism blogs and opinions could be better heard by the press. Whatever you dedide on for your topic, don't forget to include your conclusions in the outcome.