Persuasive Essay

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Persuasive Essay

• Revisions

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Attention Grabber

• Underline in orange the sentences that serve to
  pull the audience into the essay

Will I want to keep goingor will I want to
STOP???
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Thesis Statement

• Underline in blue the issue being addressed.
• Circle your position.

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Reasons

• Circle your three reasons in green.

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Evidence

• Underline in yellow facts, statistics, examples,
  anecdotes, expert opinions, quotations, and
  commonly accepted beliefs.

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Rhetorical Devices

• Underline in red your use of repetition,
  rhetorical questions, and parallelism.

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Organization

• Rank your three reasons according to their
  strength and persuasiveness.

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Conclusion

• In black, underline the restatement of your
  opinion and circle your call to action.

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Peer Feedback

• Trade essays with someone sitting next to you.
• Read their essay and provide
• 2 positive comments on what they did well
• 2 comments on what they can improve

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Now What????

• Make all of the necessary corrections to your
  draft.
• Refer to pages 284 286 for help.
• Add in one piece of evidence that you find from
  research. Be sure to give credit to your source.
• Bring corrected draft to class tomorrow.