The persuasive essay is devoted to proving a point of view and convincing its readers to side with the author’s opinion. In order to write a strong persuasive essay, you should choose your stance and express it explicitly both in the thesis and throughout the essay, using logical reasoning and provoking readers’ emotional response.
The persuasive essay usually has a five paragraph essay format, though the number of the paragraphs can be increased if necessary. The introduction should seize the readers’ attention, state the thesis, and (optionally) preview the essay arguments. To start, D. Morton offers to use questions, quotes, anecdotes, staggering facts or statistic, some hypothetical situations, or a combination of the above as attention …show more content…
Each topic sentence, in its turn, is backed up with the help of various reasoning techniques such as analogies, comparisons, logical arguments, research results, using facts. E. L. Chesla, an expert on writing, advises you to use the following six strategies to be persuasive: “Be specific; don’t include ideas you can’t support; establish credibility; acknowledge counterarguments; avoid absolutes; don’t offend” (p. 85). You can be quite authoritative, expressing your view point. It would be expedient if you presented an opposing opinion and then proved it wrong in the third paragraph of the main …show more content…
7.2. Writing a Persuasive Essay: Practice
Activity 1. Read a persuasive essay ‘A Myth Come True’ (page 16). Point out the thesis, topic sentences, supporting sentences. Answer the following questions: Is the thesis felt throughout the work and are all the facts relevant? Is the word choice exact? Have the facts been summarized and the thesis reinforced in the conclusion?
Activity 2. Discuss the introduction and conclusion and ways to improve them.
Activity 3. Discuss the main body of the essay and how you can improve it.
Activity 4. Research the Internet sources. Prepare a short three-minute talk on how to write a persuasive essay.
Activity 5. Team up with your group mates. On the basis of your talks compose a rubric for assessing a persuasive essay.
Activity 6. Pre-draft, draft, revise, and edit your persuasive essay. Print out the work for the peer review.
Activity 7. Using the feedback from the peer review, revise your work and prepare to hand it in. The requirements for the final draft are described in Activity 14, page
The persuasive essay usually has a five paragraph essay format, though the number of the paragraphs can be increased if necessary. The introduction should seize the readers’ attention, state the thesis, and (optionally) preview the essay arguments. To start, D. Morton offers to use questions, quotes, anecdotes, staggering facts or statistic, some hypothetical situations, or a combination of the above as attention …show more content…
Each topic sentence, in its turn, is backed up with the help of various reasoning techniques such as analogies, comparisons, logical arguments, research results, using facts. E. L. Chesla, an expert on writing, advises you to use the following six strategies to be persuasive: “Be specific; don’t include ideas you can’t support; establish credibility; acknowledge counterarguments; avoid absolutes; don’t offend” (p. 85). You can be quite authoritative, expressing your view point. It would be expedient if you presented an opposing opinion and then proved it wrong in the third paragraph of the main …show more content…
7.2. Writing a Persuasive Essay: Practice
Activity 1. Read a persuasive essay ‘A Myth Come True’ (page 16). Point out the thesis, topic sentences, supporting sentences. Answer the following questions: Is the thesis felt throughout the work and are all the facts relevant? Is the word choice exact? Have the facts been summarized and the thesis reinforced in the conclusion?
Activity 2. Discuss the introduction and conclusion and ways to improve them.
Activity 3. Discuss the main body of the essay and how you can improve it.
Activity 4. Research the Internet sources. Prepare a short three-minute talk on how to write a persuasive essay.
Activity 5. Team up with your group mates. On the basis of your talks compose a rubric for assessing a persuasive essay.
Activity 6. Pre-draft, draft, revise, and edit your persuasive essay. Print out the work for the peer review.
Activity 7. Using the feedback from the peer review, revise your work and prepare to hand it in. The requirements for the final draft are described in Activity 14, page