Drafting

Something to consider, as you re-work your CRITO outlines into drafts, is that you might need to scale down to keep the project manageable in the scope of a short essay. One good way to do this is to replace your thesis with one of your premises. Each premise is, after all, the conclusion to an argument of its own, and one of them may well be interesting and controversial enough to be your thesis. You can then think of this essay as a first step or down payment on an adequate treatment of your original thesis -- someday (and explaining the larger project can make a good introductory framing element).