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Writing a Problem-Solution Essay
Prewriting Planning Your Essay
Choose a Topic 🟪 For your essay, select a topic that you have strong feelings about. If your readers know you really care about your topic, they are more likely to pay careful attention to your ideas. To begin your topic search, list problems in your community or elsewhere in the world. The student of the sample focused on problems in South America. Review your list, and select one problem to be the topic of your essay.
Problems in South America
— refugee crisis
— drug cartels
— Amazon deforestation
— corrupt governments
Prewriting Gathering Details
List Causes and Solutions 🟪 You need to understand what causes the problem. Then create possible solutions that address each cause.
Problem: Deforestation in the Amazon