A 10-page essay on foster care contributes to youth delinquency

I'm in my 2nd year of university and would like to write better essays, but my thought always gets so scrambled with my chosen topics. To make my argument re the above topic, I was thinking of writing in this order:

- Stats of crime rate committed by youth who has been in foster care
- History of CAS and its power
- How an apprehension order is written, how it is executed and on what basis it is issued
- What type of effects foster care has on youth
- Why youth become criminal after care
- What happens to youth when they are 'aged out' from care
- The corruption of CAS, the attitude of the directors especially when a child is wrongfully removed

Any help is much appreciated.

I'm so glad to be able to help during this important time in your academic process. Here is a suggestion that should help:

Do not make your life difficult by committing to certain sections like this. If your prof requires an outline, provide one like this, but that does not mean you have to stick to it. It's your paper, and outlines are malleable.

SO.... use an online database to find an article relevant to the issue, and write a little paragraph about what the author said. Repeat that process until you have about 10-20 paragraphs. Then, REARRANGE the paragraphs to go in a good, logical sequence.

See... the paper sort of designs itself based on what articles you happen to read! This keeps it easy for you, because all you are ever working on is a single paragraph.

At the end, go back and add intro and conclusion. In your intro, you'll give the moral of the story, the main idea -- and this idea will be based on what you learned in your research. So start reading and writing! And enjoy it.

thank you; i'll do that and see what happens