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How to write Persuasive Essay
How to write a good persuasive essay? What are inseparable components of an effective essay in structure and organization? No matter how intelligent the ideas, a paper cann’t be effective when without strong introduction, well-structured body paragraphs, and an insightful thinking. Here is the outline of the persuasive essay format from introduction to conclusion.
The Introduction
Without any tricks, the introductory paragraph introduces the argument of your persuasive essay. A good way to capture the interest of your reader is to write a well-constructed introductory paragraph and give appropriate background information about the essay’s topic. Such a paragraph might include a brief summary of the ideas to be discussed in your essay’s body as well as other information relevant to your essay’s argument. The essential function of the introductory paragraph, though, is to introduce a clear and distinctive statement of your persuasive essay’s argument. This is where you insert your essay’s thesis. It is impossible to present a well-written argument without thesis. The thesis sentence should reflect both the position that you will argue and the organizational pattern with which you will present and support your argument. An efficient way to elaborate on the construction of a thesis sentence is to look at it in terms of stating both the “how” and the “what” of the persuasive essay’s argument. The “what” is simply the basic argument in your persuasive essay: what exactly are you arguing? The “how” is the strategy you will use to present this argument. The following are helpful questions for you to consider when formulating a thesis sentence:
- What is the argument that I am trying to convince the reader to accept?
- How exactly do I expect to convince the reader that this argument is sound?
When you have got those questions answered, you can start synthesizing them into a single thesis sentence, or, where necessary, two thesis sentences. For instance: You would like to convince your reader that the forces of industry did not shape American foreign policy from the late 19th century through 1914, and you plan to do this by showing that there were other factors which were much more influential in shaping American foreign policy. Both of these elements can be synthesized into a thesis sentence:
Fear of foreign influence in the Western hemisphere, national pride, and contemporary popular ideas concerning both expansion and foreign peoples had significantly more influence on American foreign policy than did the voices of industrialists.
This sentence shows the position you will argue and also sets up the organizational pattern of your paper’s body.
The Body
The body of your persuasive essay contains the actual development of your essay’s argument. Each body paragraph presents a single idea or set of related ideas that provides support for your essay’s argument. Each body paragraph addresses one key aspect of your essay’s thesis and brings the reader closer to accepting the validity of your essay’s argument. Because each body paragraph should be a step in your argument, you should be mindful of the overall organization of your body paragraphs.
The first step in writing an effective body paragraph is the construction of the first sentence of this paragraph, the topic sentence. Just as the thesis sentence holds together your persuasive essay, the topic sentence is the glue binding each individual body paragraph. A body paragraph’s topic sentence serves two main purposes: introducing the content of the paragraph and introducing the next step of your argument. It is important to keep in mind that the goal of the topic sentence is to advance your essay’s argument, not just to describe the content of the paragraph. The first part in your thesis on page two states that fear of foreign influence in the Western Hemisphere had more influence on American foreign policy than did industry. Thus, you need to elaborate on this point in your body paragraphs. An effective topic sentence for one of these paragraphs could be: American fear of foreign influence was a key factor in the United States’ actions in the Spanish-American War. Subsequent body paragraphs might offer further evidence for the idea presented in this body paragraph.
A good way to test the strength of both your topic sentences and your argument as a whole is to construct an outline of your essay using only thesis statement and topic sentences. This outline should be a logical overview of your essay’s argument; all of your persuasive essay’s topic sentences should work together to support your thesis statement.
The Conclusion
A basic purpose of your essay’s concluding paragraph is both to restate the essay’s argument and to restate how you have supported this argument in the body of the persuasive essay. However, your conclusion should not simply be a copy of your introduction. The conclusion draws together the threads of the paper’s argument and shows where the argument of your persuasive essay has gone. An effective conclusion gives the reader reasons for bothering to read your essay. One of the most important functions of this paragraph is to bring in fresh insight. Some possible questions to consider when writing your conclusion are:
- What are some real world applications of this essay’s argument?
- Why is what I am writing about important?
- What are some of the questions that this essay’s argument raises?
- What are the implications of this essay’s argument?
While the organization and structure described in this handout are necessary components of an effective persuasive essay, keep in mind that writing itself is a fluid process. There are no steadfast rules that you need to adhere to as you write. Simply because the introduction is the first paragraph in your essay does not mean that you must write this paragraph before any other. Think of the act of writing as an exploration of ideas, and let this sense of exploration guide you as you write your essay.
Psychological portraits of Daisy and Gatsby in “The Great Gatsby” by Scott Fitzgerald. Characters are an important part of any novel. As a genre, the novel is long enough to develop characters, and to have quite a few of them as well. For this reason, most of good novels have life-alike, and well-developed characters.
It is up to the author of the novel to make reader like or dislike certain characters. A vivid example of this is The Great Gatsby, a novel by F Scott Fitzgerald. Written in the 1920’s, the book is very much an example of the Jazz Age.
In the contemporary digital world around us, the idea of getting any type of music from Internet is getting an enormous popularity. This idea stimulates already scares and unlimited wants of the music lovers. Of course, the fact that everybody who owns computer could download any music he likes for free is very attractive. There are limits, however, as to how much pleasure we can have by using something that is morally judged. This question arises in any other piracy-related area.
MP3 piracy and moral issues bind us together and are changing lives, while the technology advancements make it easier for us to realize it. People who produce intellectual property and the ones that benefit from it are currently discussing the implications this can have on the online music in the future. There are several main sides to the problem.
Joseph Conrad wrote his novel “Heart of Darkness” in 1902. It is about lots of things: river boating, trade, exploration, seafaring, imperialism and colonialism, relations between races, an attempt to reveal the sense of life by exploring hidden mysteries of the world. We read this novel and we have more perspectives we can look at it, then its first readers, since are able to realize the race and self-government issues, which that audience was not – we live in the other world, with different maps and different political and cultural aspects.
Joseph Conrad “The Heart of Darkness” is a narrative, and is told by an unnamed and not defined speaker. He is one of a group of traveler, former sailors that now are around forty years old and are ready for adventures on the yacht starting from London, England.
Half of all wars in the world history were started by religious backgrounds, and peace was always their hope for an end. In this essay, I would like to discuss what Gandhi, as the major eastern religious philosopher, would have said about Iraq war and it’s just cause.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is a modern example of an exemplary Hindu. Gandhi beliefs are not very typical of all Hindus, but still he is referenced as the starter of a major movement in modern Hinduism. Of all the Hindu scriptures, Gandhi’s favorite was the Bhagavad Gita. It is a story, consisting of a conversation between Arjuna, a prince and member of the warrior caste, and Krishna, an incarnation of the supreme God.
Genesis book is one of the most enjoyable Bible book in Old Testament, full of memorable stories of people and events. It is a crucial book to know and to start reading for the rest of the Bible, because it’s often refers back to it.
“The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being” (Genesis 2) After showing cosmic view in Chapter 1, Genesis 2 repeats the story of creation, this time narrowing the focus to human beings. “We alone, of all God’s works are made in God’s image” (Genesis 1:26).
Dr. Howard Gardner Theory of Multiple Intelligences presented in his book “Frames of Mind”. Before this theory, it was easy to measure intelligence with just one number on IQ test. Anybody could take an intelligence test IQ, which would be an objective proof of his intelligence for everybody else including employers and colleges. Dr. Howard Gardner graduated from Harvard University in Psycology major, he questioned intelligence as being that empirical. He suggested that intelligence can’t be measured by IQ test only. It’s combination of factors that represent separate entities, which do not stand close to each other. Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences theory rose the debate on intelligence IQ test.
Existentialism spread rapidly all over the Europe after the World War I and later became popular in the rest of the world. Existentialism defenition is the movement of idea coming from the immediacy of the problems of life. I think that it is all about the analysis of the condition of man, of the specific state of being free, and also of one’s need for using his or her freedom to answer the challenges of the present day. The Existentialists say that the starting point of every philosophical argument is concrete human existence – the human character in itself, the ego of the human being. In our times, Existentialism took atheistic side and became more about concrete existence rather than traditional metaphysics.
The acute analysis, to which Existentialism has subjected the human person, reveals one undeniable fact: the weakness of man, who is burdened by the most galling contradictions.
Biography of Dennis O’Rourke
Dennis O’Rourke came from Brisbane, Australia. He was born there in 1945. Most of his young years he spent in small country towns, a little later he moved was sent to a Catholic boarding school to get his secondary education. In the middle 1960, after the 2 unsuccessful years of studying, Dennis started traveling in from the remote Australia to the Pacific Islands and then to South Asia. Dennis O’Rourke tried many professions as a salesman, laborer, a cowboy and a roughneck on oil rigs and even as a sailor. All of this time he was learning photography and became a photojournalist in 1970. Soon after this he moved to Sydney. O’Rourke was employed as a gardener assistant by The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, few years later he became a cinematographer for this corporation.
In the period from 1975 to 1979, Dennis O’Rourke lived in Papua New Guinea, which was about to be decolorized. There he worked for the newly created government, he was a professor of filmmaking technology. His first film, Yumi Yet – Independence for Papua New Guinea, was completed in 1976. This film has become very famous and received many awards.
Introduction to Ambivalent Conquests
In this paper I will try to look at Inga Clendinne and her work Ambivalent Conquests in such a critical way that will allow answering several important questions. The first question addressed in the book: what is the crisis, which the writer talks about and what is even more specific what insights do the discussions in the novel raise as to evangelization campaigns in the Yucatan and the relationship between the settlers and the missionaries in the New World.
The other important question is about author’s examination of description of the ambivalent conquests and if this term is the most appropriate to describe the situation. And then we will try to identify any ambiguities standing apart from the material of the book.
Dale Carnegie “How to win friends”.
In this essay I would like to discuss the two books “How to win friends” by Dale Carnegie and “Discourse” by Deborah Tannen. In addition, I would like to look at the two theories analyzed in the books and see how the various types of communication are described in them.
Several years ago, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Carnegie Institute of Technology conducted investigations that found about fifteen percent of the financial prosperity comes from the technical knowledge; thus eighty-five percent comes from one’s personality and capability to be a good leader. Most of colleges and universities nowadays do a good job giving technical skills and knowledge to a student but very few of them are able to provide a good “people skills”. For this reason most organizations keep making their junior executives to take Dale Carnegie course in effective and human relations, and the main textbooks for this course is “How to win friends and influence people”.
British film industry has never been booming, but during 1970’s it found itself in the most permanent crisis. The Oscar triumph in 1981 gave a hope and started a so-called British cinema renaissance, but it was still very questionable in British Cinema could live up to the expectations.
I would like to discuss crisis and the attempts of getting of productions slumps in different levels: production level, the number of movies produced, style level, how many of the international awards have been won, cinema attendance. Also the important factor to consider is the fact that British films are often financed by international investors and film-maker have to appeal to the audiences worldwide, so how many movies can we can consider to be truly British?