Handout E-5: Argumentative (Persuasive) Essay Guidelines Structuring a Argumentative (Persuasive) Essay A persuasive essay is simply a writer’s attempt to convince readers of the validity of a particular opinion on a controversial issue. The following steps should help you write a persuasive essay. 1. Carefully select a topic Choose a topic that interests you. An argument does not have to be a burning issue‚ but it must be a debatable topic. It can be anything you feel strongly about. 2. Identify
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Marquette University School of Education Supervision of Instruction EDPL 240 / 340 Room: Lalumiere 288; Tuesdays‚ 4:30 – 7:10 Spring‚ 2007 Instructor: Martin Scanlan‚ Ph.D. E-mail: martin.scanlan@marquette.edu Phone: 414-288-4434 Office hours: Schroeder Room 194 - Tuesdays‚ 1:00 – 3:00‚ or by appointment Course description: Supervision of instruction focuses on creating and sustaining effective teaching and learning environments for students and educators. This course is designed to provide teachers
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Ed Robles. Due to this breach‚ several high school teachers have lost important grades and files. Now‚ the district has decided to install new security software to all of the computers in the district to ensure the protection of valuable data. While the new software is being installed‚ all district computers will be shut down for the next three weeks. “Whoever hacked into our system is bright. They didn’t leave many traces. I don’t think it was a student. This is some pretty sophisticated hacking
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101 March 1‚ 2013 Argumentative Essay In today’s economy‚ I believe that violent video games do promote violent and more aggressive behavior amongst our children. Parents need to step up and monitor what type of video games their kids are playing. You never know what type of effect the games can have on our children. All kid isn’t typically influenced by violent video games but we don’t know how our kids’ minds are. I read an article on The Shooting at Columbine High School and it portrays how
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Argumentative Paper English 102 Argumentative Paper Randy J. Phelps Mountain State University | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Greatest Decision of All- “Moral vs. Dictated Decision”
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Everybody has their own beliefs on homosexuality. Some believe it is a sin‚ and some believe love is love; whether that is with the opposite or same sex. Homosexuality is something that in this point is time is accepted way more than it was a couple years back. Of course we still have some people who discriminate homosexuals in many ways. Some are against it due to religion‚ or the way they were brought up‚ I feel everyone is entitled to their opinion but they should keep an open mind. Like I said
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Students wearing uniforms prevents violence in today’s schools. Uniforms are equal and give students a sense of security because everyone is the same. Students need to be able to go to school to learn‚ that should be the sole purpose of going to school. These days most schools don’t have dress codes and students wear whatever they want. These kinds of clothing can be distracting and disrespectful to the students. Girls wear revealing shirts and tank tops‚ guys wear pants that fall down‚ and they
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Part Two: Analytical Essay The appeal to tradition‚ also called argumentum ad antiquitatem‚ is a commonplace fallacy that posits that an idea is correct simply on the basis that it is similar to a past or present tradition. We see it everywhere: in government‚ in schools‚ in music‚ in the workplace‚ and even in sports. The book Moneyball by Michael Lewis is largely about this idea‚ where Lewis argues that even if something has been done traditionally for many years and worked‚ the traditional way
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Ability Based Schools vs. Age Based Schools For the past years‚ traditional public schools work by placing your child in an age based grade level. Now‚ many school districts have been trying ability based grade levels‚ and they are much more effective than traditional schools. Not only they help a student’s education a lot more‚ but the discipline and other factors have shown better results in ability based schools than regular schools. The way ability based schools work is much different than
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whether a majority or minority gets united and activated by some common impulse of passion‚ or of interest of the community. • Among the two factions discussed by him‚ the first is to remove its causes which is destroying its liberty which is essential to its existence. Taking away liberty and making the existence impossible will be of no use and this remedy would become more of a problem rather than the original disease. • The latent causes of faction are sown in the nature of man. It means that
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