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The Persuasive Essay

The Persuasive Essay. Tips to identifying, prewriting, drafting, and polishing your proficiency essay. Breaking down the Prompt. We’ve already practiced this strategy with our expository essay. How do we break down this prompt?

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The Persuasive Essay

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  1. The Persuasive Essay Tips to identifying, prewriting, drafting, and polishing your proficiency essay

  2. Breaking down the Prompt • We’ve already practiced this strategy with our expository essay. • How do we break down this prompt? • “In the Crime of Sylvester Bonnard, French writer Anatole France writes: “To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.” Why might one argue that imagination is more valuable than facts? Using an example from life, history, science, film, or a personal experience, write an essay analyzing the worth of imagination.”

  3. Find the Fluffy Parts • In the Crime of Sylvester Bonnard, French writer Anatole France writes: “To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.” Why might one argue that imagination is more valuable than facts? Using an example from life, history, science, film, or a personal experience, write an essay analyzing the worth of imagination.”

  4. Fluff ‘n Stuff • In the Crime of Sylvester Bonnard, French writer Anatole France writes: “To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.” Why might one argue that imagination is more valuable than facts? Using an example from life, history, science, film, or a personal experience, write an essay analyzing the worth of imagination.” • Why is “In the Crime of Sylvester Bonnard, French writer Anatole France writes: “To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.” a fluffy part?

  5. We NEVER Rewrite the Prompt’s Example! To do so would spell sudden death to your proficiency dreams • You never rewrite the example. • You may refer to it if necessary. • Examples are always “fluffy” because they are usually not used in what the testers want you to write about. • What do the testers want you to write about?

  6. What do the testers want you to write about? • In the Crime of Sylvester Bonnard, French writer Anatole France writes: “To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.” Why might one argue that imagination is more valuable than facts? Using an example from life, history, science, film, or a personal experience, write an essay analyzing the worth of imagination.”

  7. How Do We Start? • In the Crime of Sylvester Bonnard, French writer Anatole France writes: “To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.” Why might one argue that imagination is more valuable than facts? Using an example from life, history, science, film, or a personal experience, write an essay analyzing the worth of imagination.”

  8. What Else Do We Have to Remember? • In the Crime of Sylvester Bonnard, French writer Anatole France writes: “To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.” Why might one argue that imagination is more valuable than facts? Using an example from life, history, science, film, or a personal experience, write an essay analyzing the worth of imagination.”

  9. Strategy: T-Chart • Imagination • New ideas • Dreams come to life • Examples of things that were once dreams and now reality-flight, going to the moon, etc. • Facts • Facts are static • Facts do not inspire accomplishment • Facts are useful for research, but they do not change.

  10. So, I have a T-Chart…What’s Next? • You use your T-Chart answers to help support your thesis statement. • What are you asked to write about? • Write an essay analyzing the worth of imagination. • Now, using the imagination side of your T-Chart formulate a compound-complex sentence that covers the bases for this question. This will be the basis of your essay.

  11. Now What? • You can expand on your ideas by using a mind-map. • Mind-maps expand on one idea from your T-Chart. • Mind-maps help the writer form more complicated sentences test scorers look for when reading essays. • How to you set up a Mind-Map?

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