Persuasive Writing Drafting

1. Persuasive Writing Drafting Take Out Your Writer’s Notebook, introduction paragraph, & Persuasive Essay Planning Handout

2. Today’s Objective • Today, I will be able to express my persuasive argument. I’ll know I’ve got it when I can draft the first body paragraph of my essay and ensure that it meets all the requirements for this paragraph.

3. Persuasive Drafting (Body Paragraphs) • Writers of good persuasive essays should start out with their weakestargument & end with their strongestargument. • Good persuasive writers recognize that strong, persuasive body paragraphs include several components: • Strong topic sentence which introduces the main idea of the paragraph • Examples of support for the argument • Clear connection between the reason & the argument • Strong conclusion sentence which sums up the main idea of the paragraph

4. Persuasive Drafting (Body Paragraphs) • Strong persuasive body paragraphs also follow the rules of good writing such as: • Avoiding personal pronounces • Incorporating transitional words/phrases

5. Let’s go back to our persuasive writing organizer

6. Persuasive Writing Organizer

7. Body Paragraph One

8. With Your Writing Partner… Share your persuasive writing organizers for your first paragraph.

9. Today’s Task Draft your first body paragraph.

10. With Your Writing Partner… Share what you worked on today.