Persuasive Writing Paragraph

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Persuasive Writing Paragraph

• Choose a topic
• Year Round School FOR or AGAINST
• Laptops for All Students FOR or AGAINST
• Raising your allowance FOR or AGAINST
• Consider your audience while you brainstorm your
  reason to support your side
• Create a T-Chart and list all reasons for or
  against.

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T-CHARTor a Venn Diagram

• PRO REASONS FOR

• CON REASONS AGAINST

1. List all possible reasons that could support or
   be FOR this side of the argument.

• List all possible objections or reasons that
  could support this side of the argument.

You must try to think of all the reasons for or
against your topic. When you begin to write, you
need to take the opposing view into consideration
and use a dependent clause OPENER like while,
although, as, when, etc in at least ONE
sentence in every paragraph. Example Although
some people think traffic cameras help keep
intersections safe, the reality is that they
often cause drivers to slam on their brakes to
avoid a ticket, which causes rear-end crashes to
increase.
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Position/Opinion

• In persuasive writing, a writer takes a position
  FOR or AGAINST an issue and writes to convince
  the reader to believe or do something.

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Thesis Statement Paragraph Topic Sentence
Position, Claim, Opinion STATEMENT

• There are three objectives of a thesis statement
• It tells the reader the specific topic of your
  paragraph and/or essay.
• It imposes manageable limits on that topic.
• It suggests the organization of your paper.
• Example
• Sports tone up students bodies and also their
  minds.
• Middle school and high school students need
  school issued laptops to help raise their
  academic performance.
• Middle schools need to offer more enrichment
  classes like robotics, drama, and home economics.
  

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Thesis Opinion/Position Statement

• State your opinion about your topic and briefly
  list your three (3) reasons
• Reason
• Reason
• Reason
• Example
• All students in middle schools need cell phones
  so that they can communicate with their parents
  quickly and for

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Thesis Opinion/PositionConcluding Sentence

• They are very related!
• After you finish writing all of your reasons with
  examples and/or facts to support them, you need
  to let the reader know that you are finished
  proving your point.
• Concluding sentences simply RESTATE the thesis
  using different wording.

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Example fromJoin a Winning Team Model
paragraph

• Thesis/Opinion/Position statement
• Sports tone up students bodies and also their
  minds.
• Concluding Sentence
• Playing sports is good for the body and mind, so
  not matter who scores the most points, everybody
  wins.

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Finished with your paragraph?

• Work on your Persuasion Vocab Packet.
• Go to our Dragon Writers blog and log into your
  literature book and/or The Readers Journey
  online.
• Instructions are located on the lower left side
  of the blog.