The document provides guidelines for a persuasive paper arguing that students should take action to support one of three positions: voting for a political candidate, joining a religious group, or refraining from drunk driving. Students are instructed to create a plan for convincing and protecting classmates from opposing arguments on their chosen topic. The plan should use central and peripheral arguments, logic and emotion, address credibility, anticipate counterarguments, and include methods for convincing and inoculating classmates, with references to outside sources and APA formatting.