Persuasive Essay Assignment Sheet



Unit 4 --Persuasive Essay Assignment Sheet

Don’t forget to walk yourself through all of the steps of prewriting before you begin writing your essay’s first draft.

This assignment contains the most research and format-oriented thinking of all the essays we have yet written. It is also my favorite type of writing to do. Persuasive writing is the core of most academic careers; so, I hope you come to enjoy it also.

Persuasive writing may take several forms: argumentation, taking a strong position, a call for action, an argument in reaction to someone else’s claim or argument, and proposing a solution to a problem.

While there are different purposes for each of these types of persuasive writing, there are core elements: logical thinking, making claims supported with evidence, dealing with multiple positions, and thinking of how to connect with your audience.

Also similar between them is the need to cite your evidence with a standard formatting style.

Your assignment for this Unit is to write a persuasive paper on an issue of significant interest and importance. I recommend you stay with your Unit 3 topic, but expand it with research and focus it to try to persuade your audience. You will be trying to convince us of something, change our points of view on something, incite us to act upon your advice, convince us of a possible solution to a problem, or convince us that something someone else said is flawed (and why).

Remember, I am your primary audience. Make sure that what you say will be convincing and appealing to me and your classmates, (not just to you.)

The essay will be 4-6 pages in length with an additional reference or works cited page.

You will learn research and citation strategies early in the Unit to support your effort.

I highly recommend a visit to our class website. Visit the links portion and hit the link to the library tour. This is extremely helpful. Take notes and be ready for a visit to the computer lab for further research.

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