ESSAY 3 ROUGH DRAFT RUBRIC Score · Rough draft is fairly well developed beyond the five-paragraph foundation. · The introduction sets up clear context for the discussion. · The thesis identifies the central controversy without taking a position. · The topic sentences are clear and logical for the assignment, with clear keywords that identify the parts of the assignment, and the paper structure is clear. · Sources are used appropriately; summary, paraphrase, and quotation are clear. · No unnecessary quotations are present and all quotations are set up well and integrated. · The paper offers some insight into the current status of the controversy and the major voices within it. · Research here is valid and the sources are appropriate to college-level papers. · APA is used here, and the paper is relatively free of grammatical errors. 17-20 · Informal Outline Write a brief two- or three-sentence response for each of the following questions: · What strategy do you think you’ll use to construct an introduction? · Describe the kinds of evidence or support the essay will offer. · How would you describe the essay’s organization? · How do you anticipate concluding the essay with strength? · In what ways do you anticipate holding your reader’s attention? RUNNING HEAD: THE RIGHT TO KILL 1 THE RIGHT TO KILL 6 THE RIGHT TO KILL OR NOT? NAME Institution Police officers are people like any other person. Police officers risk their lives to protect the lives of others in the communities. They serve the public at any and all costs. When the police serve, they live in the communities they serve. Being a police officer does not change the genes of a person. The service for the public is not comfortable at all, and police officers face various challenges in their line of services. Most of the times, they are faced with many dilemmas. During these situations, a police officer is expected to take into account various factors which include the legal factors, the environmental factors and also the moral or ethical factors. Most of these dilemmas are very hard to decide on the spur of the moment, and they mostly require quick decision making. In the case of killing and not killing, it is a dilemma that most policemen are faced with almost every day. what is the thesis exactly? Be clear. Police officers are mandated to protect citizens, and in doing so, they are not supposed to harm the public. The police officers should not be given the right to kill. This is because the decision made by a police officer in these situations are mostly under pressure, and sometimes they can be misinformed, and that can result in a fatal loss. An officer can apply extra force on a civilian who is entirely innocent. This will mean that the police officer has taken the life of the person he is supposed to be protecting (Balko, 2013). Citizens trust in government and law enforcement to offer protection to them and not to harm them. Every p ...

1. ESSAY 3 ROUGH DRAFT RUBRIC
Score
· Rough draft is fairly well developed beyond the five-
paragraph foundation.
· The introduction sets up clear context for the discussion.
· The thesis identifies the central controversy without taking a
position.
· The topic sentences are clear and logical for the assignment,
with clear keywords that identify the parts of the assignment,
and the paper structure is clear.
· Sources are used appropriately; summary, paraphrase, and
quotation are clear.
· No unnecessary quotations are present and all quotations are
set up well and integrated.
· The paper offers some insight into the current status of the
controversy and the major voices within it.
· Research here is valid and the sources are appropriate to
college-level papers.
· APA is used here, and the paper is relatively free of
grammatical errors.
17-20
· Informal Outline
Write a brief two- or three-sentence response for each of the

2. following questions:
· What strategy do you think you’ll use to construct an
introduction?
· Describe the kinds of evidence or support the essay will offer.
· How would you describe the essay’s organization?
· How do you anticipate concluding the essay with strength?
· In what ways do you anticipate holding your reader’s
attention?
RUNNING HEAD: THE RIGHT TO KILL 1
THE RIGHT TO KILL 6
THE RIGHT TO KILL OR NOT?
NAME
Institution

3. Police officers are people like any other person. Police officers
risk their lives to protect the lives of others in the communities.
They serve the public at any and all costs. When the police
serve, they live in the communities they serve. Being a police
officer does not change the genes of a person. The service for
the public is not comfortable at all, and police officers face
various challenges in their line of services. Most of the times,
they are faced with many dilemmas. During these situations, a
police officer is expected to take into account various factors
which include the legal factors, the environmental factors and
also the moral or ethical factors. Most of these dilemmas are
very hard to decide on the spur of the moment, and they mostly
require quick decision making. In the case of killing and not
killing, it is a dilemma that most policemen are faced with
almost every day. what is the thesis exactly? Be clear.
Police officers are mandated to protect citizens, and in doing so,
they are not supposed to harm the public. The police officers
should not be given the right to kill. This is because the
decision made by a police officer in these situations are mostly
under pressure, and sometimes they can be misinformed, and
that can result in a fatal loss. An officer can apply extra force
on a civilian who is entirely innocent. This will mean that the
police officer has taken the life of the person he is supposed to
be protecting (Balko, 2013). Citizens trust in government and
law enforcement to offer protection to them and not to harm
them. Every person has the right to live, and there is no person
including the officers who have the right to take the life of
another person away. Police officers are, therefore, not allowed
to take any human life. If the right to kill were given to police
officers, most of them would probably abuse the right, and they
may even use that right in an illegal manner. Even when a
person has committed criminal activities, the person is entitled
to a fair and proper trial which will involve the justice system
to ensure that the individual is judged accordingly. When the

4. police apply killing to their line of work, they then
deny people the right to a fair trial. The work of a police officer
is to ensure that criminals are taken into court not to judge
them. When a police officer kills a person, it means that the
officer has made a judgment and has decided to declare the
judgement to be death. This is inappropriate, and it should not
be acceptable. It is also against many religious beliefs for a
person to take the life of another person. Police officers,
therefore, have no right to kill people. Comment by admin:
how do you support these ideas?
On the other hand, there are situations where people feel that
officers have the right to kill. Police officers are given the go
ahead to use lethal force when the criminals in question are
armed, and they have refused to surrender (May, 2015). An
officer is therefore allowed to stop the criminals by using any
means possible. This is to ensure that the criminal does not
escape and go on to harm other innocent people. The police can
also be justified to kill when the criminals try to harm the
police officers. This is mostly referred as personal defense and
it is only allowed when the officer has no other option. A
police officer can kill a person who is harming the public, and
there is no other way to stop the person. In some cases, some
criminals can take people as hostages, and they can start killing
them randomly which is unacceptable, and the police are
allowed to use any force to protect the public. The police
officers are required to carry out their duties no matter the
circumstances. The decisions made by police officers are under
scrutiny and now affected by lawsuits. No person is above the
law, and the police officers are not an exemption, and they
should, therefore, act and react to the law. When pursuing
criminals, officers are expected to try as much as possible to
arrest the criminals and take them to jail alive. Considering all
these sides, the right to kill or not is, therefore, a matter of
circumstance and moral authority. The right to kill is reserved
for very peculiar and odd moments. These moments are not

5. clearly defined to ensure that there is no misunderstandings.
Since human lives are vital, they should be handled with a lot of
care and respect.
References
Balko, R. (2013). Rise of the warrior cop : the militarization of
America's police forces. New York: PublicAffairs.
May, L. (2015). Contingent pacifism: revisiting just war theory.
Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
Remember in APA the References page uses hanging indents.
Highlight each entry and then go to "paragraph' menu, click on
'indentations' then "special' and then 'hanging'. You have a lot
of fact/opinion...I would like to see some additional support
from your sources. Be sure to add in some transition
words/phrases to help the paper flow nicely. Good luck to you.
Thesis statement You’ll need to work on your thesis a bit. I
wasn’t able to find a sentence at the end of your first paragraph
that would make an appropriate thesis for this essay.
The thesis for this essay (remember the function of the essay
when determining the most effective thesis) needs to convey the
idea that there are two, valid sides to the debate, and suggest in
some way that it is important to give each side equal attention –
that it is important to examine facts on both sides – that it is
essential to look closer at the opinions and research before
forming a new opinion or taking a side in the debate. Here are a
few student samples of thesis statements taken directly from
ENG 101 essays; see if these help you get a better idea of the
type of thesis that would be appropriate for this essay:
The debate regarding same-sex marriage is established by two
excessively diverse rival sides, supporters and those opposed,
and with all the valid arguments between the divided opponents

6. the dispute brings intrigue and the need for full disclosure.
While supporters on both sides of the Right to Work law are
firm in their beliefs and arguments, it is necessary to look
closely at data, facts, and evidence to uncover truths about the
law.
The two polar perspectives that make up the debate on assisted
migration both have effective claims that make this a complex,
captivating controversy.
It is essential to avoid half-truths and concentrate on real facts
when determining whether or not wind energy is an
environmentally and consumer friendly resource.
Informal Outline For this exercise an informal outline of your
essay was required. This would be a list similar to the basic
organizational pattern in the essay 3 instructions document. The
outline would show the different paragraphs in your essay and
include a line or two about the function of each. I can see from
this draft that you intend to cover both sides in the debate, but
there is no background section and the conclusion is not clearly
defined.