Transcript Writing the Persuasive Essay

Writing the Persuasive Essay
Terms to know1. Anticipate Audience: consider how readers will
respond, find offensive, confusing, or important.
2. Claim (proposition, thesis): Not the same as subject or
topic. It must be able to be argued and require defense
through evidence. Be precise, clear, and properly qualified.
3. Evidence: Includes quotations, observations,
interviews, examples, facts, data, results from surveys
and sometimes personal experience.
4. Reasoning: Writers must base claims on more than
just personal preference/opinions. Your reasons demand
evidence, information and logic.
Writing the Persuasive Essay
Help Graduates Avoid Financial Ruin
SUBJECT
CLAIM (thesis)
Every high school student take a personal finance class
before graduation.
OPEN WITH: detail, statement, quotation, anecdote, statistic, fact, question,
exaggeration, or outrageous statement
Who is my audience? (high school students, parents, school staff?)
Writing the Persuasive Essay
SUBJECT
Help Graduates Avoid Financial Ruin
Every year, thousands of new high school graduates
pack their bags, move to new cities, and sign papers
accepting loans they might not be able to pay back.
ATTENTION-GETTER
The best way to help graduates avoid these risks is to
require that every high school student take a personal
finance class before graduation.
THESIS
Writing the Persuasive Essay
Help Graduates Avoid Financial Ruin
Every year, thousands of new high school graduates
pack their bags, move to new cities, and sign papers
accepting loans they might not be able to pay back.
Within weeks, many of these same students are writing
home to their families, struggling to understand where
their money went. Without a guide, these young EXAMPLE
people fail to understand how to properly budget or
establish a financial plan. The best way to help
graduates avoid these risks is to require that every high
school student take a personal finance class before
graduation.
Writing the Persuasive Essay
Help Graduates Avoid Financial Ruin
Every high school student take a personal finance class
before graduation.
MAIN POINTS:
1. Students who choose to get a job straight out of high school would also
benefit from finance education because they would learn to manage their
money.
2. Students who choose to get a job straight out of high school would also
benefit from finance education because they would learn to manage their
money.
3. Many recent graduates end up without enough savings to keep them
afloat if they lose their jobs or if their businesses go under.
Writing the Persuasive Essay
Help Graduates Avoid Financial Ruin
Every high school student take a personal finance class before
CLAIM
graduation.
Students who choose to get a job straight out of high school
would also benefit from finance education because they would
learn to manage their money.
MAIN POINTS
Students who choose to get a job straight out of high school
would also benefit from finance education because they would
learn to manage their money.
Many recent graduates end up without enough savings to keep
them afloat if they lose their jobs or if their businesses go
under.
Rather than help them through these hard times when
they happen, we should try to prevent them from
happening at all. CONCLUSION