persuasive Essay

Persuasive Essay Prompt

A persuasive essay requires you to respond to a prompt in a way that persuades the reader that your stance is the correct one. Unlike the academic summary in which you focused on the article, for your persuasive essay you are going to focus on the topic. The point of this paper is to convince your reader that a particular stance is correct. As always you have to stay away from using first person pronouns. As usual this is not an opinion piece; your opinion is not important here. Make a claim and provide evidence for that claim. Focus on the facts and help the reader come to the correct scientific conclusion.

Guidelines

· The Persuasive Essay for this class must be 500-750 words.

· Your thesis statement must be clear and concise.

· You must support any claims that you make with plenty of evidence

· Evidential support (whether factual, logical, statistical, or anecdotal).

· Use 3 to 5 articles. Cite their arguments in your essay and write them on your reference page.

· Grammar, punctuation, and content must be on par with university standards.

· The only thing that you need other than your paper is your peer review worksheet.

· You have graphic organizers to help you organize your information, but use of these is not mandatory.

· 1st Draft: Feb 7

· 2nd Draft: Feb 26