PERSUASIVE ESSAY
For assignment #3, you will be writing a 3-page, (12 point, Times New Roman font, double-spaced) essay persuading your reader to agree with your viewpoint regarding a controversial topic. You may choose one of the topics presented in class, excluding abortion.
Remember, this is a persuasive argument, so state your opinion clearly and appeal predominantly to your reader’s sense of reason. Do not rely heavily on emotional or ethical appeals. Use logical appeals to support your claim. Make sure you address counterarguments; this is a critical part of effective argument.
Plan your essay carefully before you begin writing. Writers cannot write an effective essay if they do not know what they want to say. Decide what you want to say: organize your arguments and choose your supporting evidence before beginning your first draft. Prewriting will help you develop a more unified and cohesive essay. Narrow your topic to a specific aspect you can develop in a well-written essay. Decide if you need to define any terms for your intended audience or to provide any necessary information.
Organize your essay carefully so ideas flow smoothly. Pay attention to paragraph unity and coherence. Make sure all claims are supported by evidence.
Write your essay in the third person (no “I” or “me”).
Give your essay a unique title and use a hook that catches your reader’s interest. Make sure you have argued your point effectively enough to change your reader’s mind.
TIMELINE
5/3: Assignment #3 Persuasive Argument Rough Draft Due (Remember, no rough draft=no pass)
5/10: Assignment #3 Persuasive Argument Final Draft Due
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Kamice Denwitty
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The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.
— Hamilton Wright Mabee
[T]he tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream...It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.
— Benjamin Elijah Mays, American educator and president of Morehouse College (1895-1984)
Both quotes are explaining that you cannot go out and try to achieve something if you do not have the proper steps in achieving that goal. It would be morally wrong not to use the tools you already possess in order to obtain that goal. They are both similar in the simple fact that they discuss reaching the goals you have installed for yourself. The differences are that one quote is discussing that it would be a total upset if you do not dream or go out to the extremes in achieving the goals you have set for yourself. While the other quote is saying that you should use what you already have to get to where you want to be in the future. These two quotes I can relate to, just for the simple fact that I had to set basic steps to pursue what I wanted to do with my life in the future. In order to do some of those things, I had to start with a dream, steps to accomplish that dream and the basic knowledge I already had to accommodate those steps. These quotes could relate to everyone’s lives for a simple fact, that they all had a dream or idea of some sort of what they wanted to do with their lives in the future and to use what they already have to get to the position of fulfilling their dreams or goals.