Friday 24 October 2008

Persuasive Essay


For you to go over the concept of a persuasive essay and the different steps you need to follow when writing it, click on the link below and read this tutorial. I'm mainly interested in slides 8 to 17, so focus please! Hope you enjoy it and you find it useful!

32 comments:

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale
It was very good. It helps you organize your essays! If you want to do well you could check this.
KISSES
sofi ks

Anonymous said...

The charts and templates in the slides would be super if students understand that they don't need to write an introduction before they get to the point of using the charts and templates.

Students don't understand that. I know I didn't understand that.

I had two masters' and several years' experience teaching college writing classes before I learned that an essay is not written in the order in which it is presented.

Since I cannot put something together from clear directions without knowing what I'm building, it was difficult for me to imagine teaching without showing the finished essay first.

Working as a newspaper reporter made me see that the thesis is the essay. That newspaper experience changed my entire way of teaching writing. Now I start with a working thesis, as this link explains:

http://www.you-can-teach-writing.com/write-a-thesis-first.html

Linda Aragoni

Miss Ale said...

Dear Mrs Aragoni;
Thank you for your interesting comment and I really appreciate your valuable link on teaching writing. I did show my students two finished essays therefore they know what they have to build up!

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale
The things you showed us in the link were really helpful. I understood every single word of what they were explaining. We can read this so as to practice for the final exam and i really believe that it will really help us. It can also help people that at first didnt understand very well what a persuasive essay is. If they read what you have put i think that they will have a much better idea of what it is. I really like all of this persuasive essays and things because we have to write what we think about things and we have to write a lot and i love writing. I hope you put another comment like this one. I think it can and it will help many people. Thank you for posting it!!!
see you tomorrow!!!

Lucia V

Anonymous said...

Dear Miss Ale,
These was very usefull !! I think I will look at this again sometime I need it. Its practically what we have been looking at in school, well, some things no, but mostly it is. I loved to write the MY HERO essay, because you could express in a good way what you wanted to transmit to "the reader". I liked to do it because I loved to write about a person I consider my hero and that I think that was a good man and that helped society. In a way, he helped me, a lot, not personaly, but I mean my family and me. I am very glad to make this project about my hero !! Well, Im sure I will be looking at these post again, sometime later, maybe before the clean copy of our hero essay.
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS MISS ALE ! IT IS A GRATE HELP FOR ME !!
SEE YOU
OLI G

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale,
the page was incerdible!! I learned so much about how to organize essays, and how it is organized each tipe of essay (there are three tipes) Well I think it is great that you gives us this page because it would help us a lot in the final year test and whenever we have to write an SA. I will love to read this in class, so that the children that don´t see this in the blog see it and we all understand it better. But well, the point is that is great that you include this in the blog because we can enter and see it whenever we can or want. Thanks!! Oh I was going to forgot to say that the SA you showed us in class of 6A last year was great it, also that it had a great point because everybody that would read it would understand the meaning and importance of keeping school and society cleaner so we make the world less contaminated. I understand a lot of the work and i´m anxious to start working on our essays. Thanks for all the useful information.

See you and Thanks,

Shany M

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale,
I think this link is very usful! for the future and also now for example the clean copy of my hero (wich I liked alot). I am very thanked you post this because it will help me organize my essays. I liked alot the link and I belive it would help me alot with the writing and all that kind of stuff, but nothing to do with persuavise essay, I was impressed with all the people from the world who check the blog in the cluster map!! I was very impressed. Well I think the link was very usful and it will help all of us.
Well See You,
Sofi F

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale...
This tutorial is really helpful for when we need to write a persuasive essay. They showed you in the tutorial:
1- What information you need to put in each paragraph.
2- Some charts to organize information so then you write it in your essay.
3- Tips
When we are going to need to write a persuasive essay I am going to check this post.
Linda aragoni left a comment!!! And she is not from our school that means that people from other countries are leaving comments! YEAH!!!
See you tomorrow,
Valerie P.

Anonymous said...

Dear Miss Ale: THIS INFORMATION WAS REALLY HELPFUL!!!!!
I think that this tools really help us a lot becasue you could get more information on how to do a persusive essay and how to do a good one, with different methods and ways of doing it. I was really pleased with this very special tool you´ve given me and of how much it help us on our organization, but at the same time I think that a very low, and calmed music while you are reading, will not do something harmful to this information, but it will do it better because it was kind of long( but at the same time interesting) and with music it will maybe be somthng that will do people pay more attention than what maybe somebody that doesn´t like reading very much, will do them pay more attention than what they may have payed, anyways, it was VERY VERY helpful and good and it had animations and like a mini mini example on what it was trying to transmit to you. Apart from the game I was so so impresed to see that Mrs. Aragoni had posted a comment, I have read it and I think that your blog is being very very useful to us and even to somebody you don´t know. Maybe she uses her(I think that if I understood corectley) to her students becasue it was helpful for her, so, GOOD FOR YOU!!!!
Well Miss ale, I will be at the blog maybe later to see if another person we don´t know has enter the blog and posted a comment...
MISS ALE THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR HELP!!!!!!
BYE BYE...
SEE YOU SOON...
CAMI W

Anonymous said...

Wow I was seeing the comments and another user of blogspot comment it. How strange.
For me the chart was very it organiced `you all up. I understand it very well.
Hope that other people also
barbie portela

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR POSTING THIS COMMENT!! It can really help us through out all the stuff we have to do, not only MY HERO but lots and lots of projects and not only in Language also in LENGUA!
I really like writting MY HERO because I want to let know people that I am very proud of my hero and know in the clean copy I can make it even better so thank you very much!! Well Miss Ale I have nothing else to say...
SEE YOU SOON
Kiki

Anonymous said...

Hi there!
I REALLY LIKED THE PAGE!!! IT WAS VERY GOOD AND I THINK THIS MIGHT HELP ME FOR MY FINAL YEAR EXAM. I really liked the part of the charts because they help you organize your information and then write it in the essay. I enjoyed reading all the steps for writing a persuasive essay and I´m looking forward to write one.
See you,
Barbie M

Anonymous said...

kañimMiss Ale,
This post was very useful because it can remaind the people that forgot how a persuasive essay was!!! It was also really helpful!!! I loved to write My Hero Essay and now we are also writting a persuasive essay. I think that it is very intresting to write persuasive essays because we have to convince the reader about what we want to tell. This post is very useful for the final exam because it is going to be about persuasive essays and if I need to practice more I will see this post again.
THANK YOU FOR THIS VERY USEFUL AND HELPFUL POST!!!
SEE YO TOMORROW,
Sofi S

Anonymous said...

That link was to help me learn more, so now I prepeared for the test, and I know more about a persuasive essay.I think this is a good coment on to post and learn more is better for me.
Martin T

Anonymous said...

I like very much writting essays because I think that is fun and also you can give your opinions on the third paragraph and you can tell what you think from your point of view and your beliefs. Also you can share your ideas so I find it very fun and at the same time interesting!
Entering to the link I learned that they are three tipes of persuasive writting. "Pro" means what is good and "con" means what is bad, as the same of benefits and drawbacks.
I ENJOY WRITTING ESSAYS!
Lucila M

Anonymous said...

Hi miss ale that link was very good and a bit difficult, very long although it helped me lot and I can enter there when I have a dout. It is great now I can say possitive and NEGATIVE things about the document. I can express myself. I didnt understand very well how to do the first paragraph, I understood the concept but it is difficult for me when I have to start writing. But thanks a lot to post this comment. A I am doing some ideas for the Lengua story and this will help me a lopt for the two subjects.xç

bye bye
thomas d

Anonymous said...

Hi Miss Ale...
This post on persuassive essay is really useful because it can organize us when writing an essay and it tells what is an persuassive essay and really organizes us. It also talks about how to use diadvanteges and advanteges it aslo recomends to build up a persuassive essay by starting with the problem, then the solution and then the conclucion..... It also helped me to realize that it is something impotant to know because it is useful to convince people that you are right with what you are telling and it is a very interesting to know for the future and this post also worked to make any essay that I would have to do in the future....

bye bye!!!
valen g.

Anonymous said...

miss ale, I think that these tools are very useful for our essays, now i can organize better my ideas! i think that it is very good for learning and inproving our essays.

felipe s

Anonymous said...

unMiss ale the page of persuasive essay is very long and usefull, more usefullg.more usefull than long.it is very good and such rare examples.
maxi b

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale,
I think it was very good and it will help me when writing a presuavie essay!!, Although it was long I thought it was very intresting and for me gave me more information about Persuasive Essays. I think this will help me alot in writing. I think I will use it alot for example for my LAST YEAR EXAM!!!. Well thank for putting this post becuase I think it is very useful and I will probobly use it alot!!
Well, thank for posting this comment I liked it alot!!
Well See You,
Sofi F

Anonymous said...

Hello Ale this page on persuasive essay is long but it helps you. At the begining I didnt understand nothing but at the end I understood all of it. We already talked about this in class but this reminded me of all you spoke about. If you find games about persuasive essay you could put it so you play and at the sama time you learn more.

Ramiro T

Anonymous said...

miss ale am going to prepere to the test becouse it would be dificoult. Am going to check these tow or three imes to practise, to am going to check the folder ovious.

nico d l

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale:
The post is very helpful for us, because it helps organize our Persuasive Essay. I think that all that information I will check it in the future when I need to write a Persuasive Essay. I don´t know if I am reapitig these but al the post that you had posted and all the posts that you are going to post are very useful for our future education...
Please Miss Ale continue including more of this posts!!!
Bye
Martu.V

Anonymous said...

Miss ale

Super information, very useful.
I would look for this tipes of things in Google and in Yahoo! for more practice. I copy paste the link of the Persuasive Essay to send it by mail to me to read it in my home because here in the school I didn't have much time and I read it on a rush
Really, I couldn't understand it much but I will try it in my home

Bye :¬)
Manuel B

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale

I found it realy intretsing. And I could learn the persuaisive essay in an other way. Learning pro, cont, arguments against and many more. the slide show was verry intresting and fun.

Anonymous said...

sorry the last coment was mine.

thomas

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale thanks
I learnt a lot!
Now I know what to foucous on and I know what you are going to check on so I study more that. I did´nt had very clear what each paragraph had to have.
Thank you very much
Miss Ale bye bye

Anonymous said...

Helo Ale

The slides were very intresting because it gives you an idea of how to write, how to organise a persuasive essay, it was very clear the idea of the introduction and the arguments against and the pro and cons. The charts are very clear.
To coclude I would say although it was very long it really helps and the explanation when you put PLAY was very good.

Luis G (the blogger)

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale
It was a very good idea to put everything in the bolgg ow we can stud in the blogg and our folde so then it will be much easyer study for the end of year exam
Thanks Miss Ale for helping us study
George.J

Anonymous said...

miss ale
it was very good because it helps you write and organize your essays. it also told you there where different types of essays such as the opinion essays, problem and solution essays and pro-con essays. it gives you an idea of how to write your essays, and how to use the different types of essays.

the best blogger, juan

Anonymous said...

Hello miss Ale:

I saw the slide show and I think it is good because now I will be able to know better which is the most important things that I have to include in each of the paragraph and now also I will be able to write how and what I have to write in each pargraph. A drawback of this slide show is that I couldn´t anderstand how to use the a Supporting Reasons Table, Using an Objection Chart and Using a T-Chart.

Bye Hideki

Jhon Smith said...

That's great, writing essays in blogs makes it interesting for the readers.