Persuasive Essay

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Persuasive Essay
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Directions

• 5-6 paragraph essay, following the outline
  given.

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• Personal preference.
• For example
• Black licorice is gross.
• Sugar Bowl is the best place to ski.

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• researchable
• Will you be able to find sources from the
  databases we learned about in the library? Books,
  journals, articles

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• appropriate

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• Should
• This also means you could have should not in
  your thesis.

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• No internet sources are allowed unless they are
  digital editions of major news organizations.
• For example
• USA today
• CNN
• New York Times
• CBS
• Wall Street Journal

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• You must have at least two sources and a Works
  Cited page.

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Topics are due

• Thursday, the 6th
• Once you commit to a topic, its yours. No one
  else will have it.

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Thesis Statement/Topic Sentences

• -Thesis statement must have should or should
  not. - Eliminate all 8 to be verbs in thesis and
  topic sentences.
• Getting rid of to be verbs
• 1. am, are, is, was, were, be, become, became
• 2. Replace with a strong, specific verb

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Examples

• Cleaning is tiring and unexciting.
• Cleaning promotes exhaustion and leaves
  individuals without excitement.
• 2. Plastic bags are dangerous for the
  environment.
• - Plastic bags devour landfills and create
  dangers for the environment.
• 3. Organic foods became more popular.
• -Organic foods circulated quickly through
  grocery stores as they gained popularity.

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Your turn

1. Jackets are beneficial in the winter.
2. Eating breakfast is important for a persons
   metabolism.
3. 2012 was a year of lessons and memories.

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Setting up quotesYou cannot put a quote without
a lead-in

• 1. Dialoguesomeone is talking
• Occasion, speaker, instead of said
• When he asked Santa for a new Elmo toy,
  thelittle boy pleaded, I would love nothing
  more than this ( Anderson).
• 3. narrationjust a sentence
• Your own words followed by the part of the
  sentence.
• Hopefully childhood diabetes rates will decline
  by 14 in 2013 ( Smith).

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Title

• Two parts.
• Your Topic
• Your individual and creative one
• It looks like this
• School UniformsThe Debate Over Khaki and
  White
• Or
• Play Based Learning
• Evaluating the Curriculum in Elementary Schools