3.1 Discursive Writing

1. 3.1 Discursive Writing

2. 3.1 Discursive Writing School Uniform Should school uniform be banned?

3. 3.1 Discursive Writing In today’s lesson: • develop knowledge and understanding of the structure and style of a discursive essay

4. Opening your essay

5. Opening your essay • Provocative “It is difficult to see how anyone can approve of fox hunting”

6. Opening your essay • Provocative “It is difficult to see how anyone can approve of fox hunting” • Balanced “Fox hunting is a topic about which people hold strongly contrasting views”

7. Opening your essay • Provocative “It is difficult to see how anyone can approve of fox hunting” • Balanced “Fox hunting is a topic about which people hold strongly contrasting views” • Quotation “Oscar Wilde once described fox hunting as ‘The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable’.”

8. Opening your essay • Provocative “It is difficult to see how anyone can approve of fox hunting” • Balanced “Fox hunting is a topic about which people hold strongly contrasting views” • Quotation “Oscar Wilde once described fox hunting as ‘The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable’.” • Illustration “On a glorious autumn morning a terrified, exhausted animal is savaged to death by a pack of baying dogs while a group of expensively dressed humans encourage the dogs in their bloody work.”

9. Opening your essay • Provocative “It is difficult to see how anyone can approve of fox hunting” • Balanced “Fox hunting is a topic about which people hold strongly contrasting views” • Quotation “Oscar Wilde once described fox hunting as ‘The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable’.” • Illustration “On a glorious autumn morning a terrified, exhausted animal is savaged to death by a pack of baying dogs while a group of expensively dressed humans encourage the dogs in their bloody work.” • Anecdote “I have always detested fox hunting since I was almost physically sick while watching a television film of the kill at the end of a hunt.”

10. BBC Bitesize

11. 3.1 Discursive Writing

12. 3.1 Discursive Writing Topics • Should Union Terrace Gardens be retained or redeveloped? • Should Scotland become an independent nation? • Gaelic should be compulsory in schools • Should the monarchy be abolished? • Should Scotland join the Euro? • Mobile phones should be banned from schools • Sports salaries are too high • Factory farming should be banned • Reality television is corrupting our society • Downloading music without permission is theft and is immoral