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 * Topic Talk: Child abuse**

List five facts that you already know about this event/issue: 1. Many people are silent about their abuse.
 * Topic Choice:**

2. If a person is abused as a child they often abuse their children.

3. There are many different types of abuse.

4. Being abused as a child often results in mental and emotional stress.

5. Many stressed adults take their anger out in a physical way.

This issue impacts the world everyday. There are many people that are abused daily and not everyone speaks about it.
 * Answer these questions about this person:**
 * 1) How did/will this event/issue impact the world?

My argument would be that child abuse is a very big issue although many people do not know a lot about it.
 * 1) For what purpose do you want to write about this event/issue--that is, what argument(s) might you make about it? (For example, you might show how teachers can work with dyslexic students or argue that Hurricane Katrina was a turning point in American politics).

I would make this argument to people that are/were abused and people that are not informed about the dangers of child abuse.
 * 1) For what audience(s) do you intend to make your argument(s) about this event? (People who already know about dyslexia? People from New Orleans? Teachers?) Explain.

Genres that would be appropriate for this topic would be newspaper articles and interviews.
 * 1) What genres (types of writing) might be appropriate to this topic? (For example, what kinds of writing might associated people (like teachers) write about it? What kinds of writing might be written about it?)

I am interested in researching this issue because I believe that it is a very popular issue but not very public. I personally connect with this issue because several people that I know were abused but never said anything about it.
 * 1) Why are you interested in researching this event/issue? How do you personally connect with it?

What resources do you think will be useful to you? Specific books? Series of books? Magazines? Periodicals? Interviews? Internet sites? Films? Other? Interviews, internet sites and news articles are sources that would be useful to me while researching this issue.
 * Resources**