Persuasive Writing

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Persuasive Writing
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What is persuasive writing?

• AKA Argument
• Supports an opinion
• Trying to convince the reader to see your point
  of view.

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1 pager

• Write a one page persuasive essay.
• Topic Should we have homework in school? YES?
  NO?
• Create Pros and Cons T-chart
• Need introduction, body paragraph(s), and
  conclusion.

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Editing

• First- highlight all the commas in your paper.
• Peer editing- look for
• First 4 words of each sentence
• Subjects
• Verbs
• Syntactic variety
• Spelling
• Transitions
• of words in each sentence
• Strong introduction and conclusion