Persuasive Writing

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Persuasive Writing

• Student Models

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Prompt

• The principal of your school has suggested that
  assigning more homework will cause students
  grades to improve.
• Think about the effect that a greater amount of
  homework would have on your grades and your
  friends grades.
• Now write to convince your principal whether
  increasing the amount of homework will cause
  students grades to improve.

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Introduction Essentials

• What is the issue?
• What is my opinion of the issue?
• What can I say to persuade the reader to my
  opinion?

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Introduction

• Noooo! Dont give us extra homework. Extra
  homework will not prove anything. Giving us, the
  students, more homework will only prove three
  reasons it might decrease our grades, our
  behaviors might change, and there might not be
  any time to do anything.

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Conclusion Essentials

• Restate the issue.
• Restate your opinion of the issue.
• The conclusion should be VERY strong alerting
  the reader to the writers side of the issue and
  suggesting a call to action.
• The special appeal should be made by use if a
  quote, an inspirational thought or a thought
  provoking statement or question.

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• To wrap it all up, homework would not help
  grades or education of students at all. It would
  simply overwhelm them, take up all of their time,
  and provide an impossible pile of work. So please
  DO NOT give these children any more homework than
  they already have! Children try hard every day in
  school, and they do not need unnecessary
  assignments. So please, spare them from the
  madness of too much!

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• In conclusion, I strongly disagree with giving
  more homework because it will absolutely decrease
  our grades, behaviors will change, and we will
  have no free time to do anything. I speak for all
  students. We dont need more homework!

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• Mr. Burch, increasing the amount of homework
  really isnt a good idea. The students grades
  will lower, the extra activities will be
  canceled, and kids would have to stay up later at
  night to finish their work. While you might think
  that adding homework will help students, the
  reality is that it will not. This is the time for
  less homework and more in-school learning!

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The 5 Steps of Elaboration

• Begin by saying something about one part of the
  thesis (one of the reasons).
• Say something more
• Say something more
• Give detailed information by either providing the
  reader with a vivid word picture or an example of
  a personal experience which lets the reader know
  you know what youre talking about. An easy way
  to lead into this is to use I remember or
  Imagine
• Wrap it up!

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Elaboration Qualities of a good teacher prompt

• Also, a good teacher must show enthusiasm in
  his or her work. A teachers enthusiasm makes a
  class more fun and exciting for the students as
  well as the teacher. Being enthusiastic about
  their work, teachers may help pupils learn in
  more creative ways. For example, in third grade
  my class began to learn fractions. My teacher
  purchased each of us chocolate bars that could
  break into pieces. We took out pieces and put
  them back until we understood how fractions
  worked. In the end, we all got to eat our
  chocolate. This gave us a memorable way to learn
  fractions.

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Elaborative Example Favorite Holiday

• First of all, Thanksgiving provides my family
  a chance to return to the place we all love, our
  grandfathers farm. From the tall oak trees that
  line the driveway to the creek which trickles
  through the pastures, every part of the farm
  holds adventures for young and old alike. It
  reminds us of the wealth a heritage of land can
  offer us. I remember one Thanksgiving my
  grandfather pulled us all behind his bright red
  tractor in an old rickety wooden cart full of
  soft hay on a hay ride through the farm The
  shadows of the trees danced around us as we rode
  across the fields. Later, we sat beneath the
  twinkling stars and gazed at the campfire.
  Returning to my grandfathers farm is the one
  reason I love Thansgiving.

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More elaboration

• Next, I enjoy Christmas because I love the
  Christmas weather. During the summer everything
  is very humid, but winter comes and the air is
  crisp, cool and refreshing. The thought that
  Christmas is just around the corner delights me.
  Sometimes my family and I go up north to Maine
  for the winter, and I love to play in the clean
  white snow that falls on the ground and sends
  chills down my body. The winter air soothes me,
  making it one of my favorite things about
  Christmas.