First, write out your Rhetorical Situation:
Topic: Children and Imagination
Purpose: I would like to redate the importance of imagination and creative thinking for
children’s development.
Audience: Students, faculty staff…
Genre: argumentative essay
Thesis: Imagination in Children has a positive impact. Imagination and creative thinking can
help with the improvement of the Child’s mental and social development.
Tone: serious, formal, persuasive…
Next, using this template, fill out your Research Proposal template: Please refer to the
student example.
Argument Proposal: Expose kids to a more open-minded society, without drastic filters, teach
them to speak up their minds and make them understand that their imagination can bring them
into more fun and enjoyable childhood.
General to specific: Children, dream, psychology, society, development, childhood, health…
Research Question: How does imagination can help children? Why do we need to let children
have imagination?
Thesis / Position: Imagination should be always encouraged into a child’s life to help them
understand life and develop as functional members of society.
Three Pro Points:
Pro Point 1: When children use their imagination while playing, they get to develop crucially
phycological and emotional capacities that help them understand the world around them.
Example: Kids tend to pretend to be heroes with the goal to eliminate the villains while role
playing.
Pro Point 2: Imagination can help kids express their feelings and cope with them through
mental growth. This helps develop new language that can help them understand themselves as
human beings.
Pro Point 3: It helps them become mature members of society capable of dreaming for
something bigger, elaborate theories, problem-solving… Imagination can enforce cognitive
capacities in children.
Opposing Viewpoint 1: “Kids are mandated to grow up and understand that imagination is not
real, and it would not get them anywhere in life”
Refute: Anything that we imagine might not be real or it could be fictional. However, this helps
kids cope with their emotions and allow them to explore their minds and surroundings beyond
the barriers.
Write a short paragraph on why you would like to write about this argument. What is your
interest and connection to the topic?
As a kid, I have always been really calm and timid, I would always be trapped in my own world
and that’s how I used to make myself get out of my zone of boredom. Imaging myself in a
happy place, that I was a hero or even doing what I wanted to do at the moment instead of
having to go to the doctors with my mom. Imagination was a big part of my childhood and
now I want to understand more about this behavior and how imagination helped me, later on,
become a better creative kid.

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