You heard about the food pyramid, classifying foods according to there health benefits. The higher you go, the richer the foods become. (Yes, ice cream is way up there.) Now supposed that someone were to create a writing pyramid, classifying the different forms of writing according to their level of difficulty. The higher would go, the more challenging the writing would become. The subject of this chapter— the persuasive essay—would be way up there, near the top.
What makes persuasive writing so challenging? For one thing, it requires a lot of careful thinking planning, You must learn as you can about your subject and, in the process, form an opinion about it that you can develop and support. (Persuading means arguing for or against something.)
What makes persuasive writing so challenging? For one thing, it requires a lot of careful thinking planning, You must learn as you can about your subject and, in the process, form an opinion about it that you can develop and support. (Persuading means arguing for or against something.)