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Blendspace: Space Exploration 5 Paragraph Persuasive Essay
Learn to write a five-paragraph persuasive essay by working through six links to videos, graphic organizers, and activities on space exploration.
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Guide to Writing a Basic Essay: Sample Essay
This is an example of a basic five-paragraph essay on cats. The thesis of the essay is in bold, topic sentences are in italics, and each main idea is underlined.
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Hamilton: Essentials of Effective Persuasive Essays
This resource provides good insight on how to structure a well organized effective persuasive essay.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Persuasive and Expository Essay Maps
Teachers can scaffold writing instruction with the assistance of Daily Teaching Tools. Persuasive and expository essay graphic organizers are featured on this page.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Persuasive Essay Example 2
This four-page essay provides an example of a persuasive essay. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Persuasive Paper
Click on the Print Version to see the four-page essay that provides an example of a Persuasive Paper. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and...
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Persuasive/argumentative Essay vs. Opinion Writing
This lesson plan teaches students that writing a persuasive or argumentative essay for class is the same as writing an opinion article for their local newspaper. The lesson plan includes showing students examples of opinion writings and...
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Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: High School Persuasive Essay Example 1
This seven-page essay provides an example of a persuasive essay. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
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Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: High School Persuasive Essay Example 2
This five-page essay provides an example of a persuasive essay. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Persuasive Letter Example
This persuasive letter example is three pages long and includes points on the left hand column. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Persuasive Brochure
This six-page example provides information on creating a persuasive brochure. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 4.1: Persuasive Essay
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn to write a persuasive essay by organizing arguments in a logical order, providing appropriate supporting details, clarifying main arguments, and identifying...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: The Writing Process: Generate Ideas and Questions
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students how to generate ideas and questions as a part of the writing process in five mini-lessons: Introduction, Writing the Persuasive Essay:...
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Oakland Writes: Student Exemplars: Seventh Grade: Persuasive Essay [Pdf]
A persuasive essay written by a seventh-grader with notes calling attention to important writing concepts evident in the essay including a well-written title, opening sentence, opinion statement, supporting details, call to action, and...
Joe Landsberger
Study Guides & Strategies: Writing Persuasive Essays
This site focuses on the student learning how to write strong persuasive essays. Strategies are provided to help the student complete a persuasive writing assignment.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Persuasive Essays
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart takes students through the process of writing a persuasive essay.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Write a Persuasive Text With a Clear Thesis
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students how to focus on a thesis in an expository text in four lessons: Introduction, Opening Statement: Your Thesis, Maintaining Your Thesis...
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Idea: Debatabase
The IDEA Debatabase is designed to help high school and college level debaters by providing both pro and con arguments for hundreds of debate topics. These arguments have been prepared by experts in debate, both debaters and judges....
PBS
Pbs: Empire of the Air: Power and Impact of Radio
Students will listen to historic news events as broadcast on radio, view current news coverage on television, and compare and contrast how those events were reported on both media by developing an essay which addresses the question "Is...
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Academic Writing: Specific Requirements
This page focuses on academic writing requriements and includes links to Argumentative (Persuasive) Writing, Essay Writing, and How to Write a Research Paper.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Argument and Persuasion
A slide show with fourteen slides with notes, tips, and examples on how to write a persuasive essay.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: About the Writing Sample
On Test Day, you'll be asked to write one sample essay after you've completed the scored sections of the LSAT. The writing sample isn't scored, but copies are sent to all law schools to which you apply. This article gives tips on writing...
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Idea: Debatabase
The IDEA Debatabase is designed to help high school and college level debaters by providing both pro and con arguments for hundreds of debate topics. These arguments have been prepared by experts in debate, both debaters and judges....
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English 100: Persuasive Essay
This tutorial provides writing instructions and ideas to help the student in preparing a persuasive essay.