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VCE Stuff => VCE English Studies => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE English & EAL => Topic started by: DJA on January 10, 2014, 03:27:53 pm
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A holiday homework task requires me to write a “persuasive paragraph” on the conflict context. I have a prompt and I am required to use two different texts to draw evidence from in order to write the paragraph. Could someone elaborate on how to actually write and structure a persuasive paragraph using evidence and on a prompt given? :'(
Additionally, if I were to write a persuasive essay on a context (which incidentally is part of my first SAC for English), how would one go about doing so?
Cheers.
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Hey,
It would be way easier to explain if you posted the prompt+texts you are using, but anyway...
What I would do:
I always do ideas, then text/outside sources. Context is about ideas; less so about the texts... in the end the focus is a lot more on the outside sources.
Take a look at the prompt; break it down to keywords; find synonyms for these keywords; rewrite the prompt; question the prompt: ie do you agree, why/why not etc. ; write what comes into you head when you see the prompt: so like questions/answers to questions/random thoughts.
After a while, you will notice that what you've written should fall into about 3-4 main groups: these are your main ideas--> use these ideas in your paragraph, and segue from one to the next.
The persuasive essay is basically the same thing: you've just gotta flesh out your ideas+ back it up with examples from your text + outside resouces...
Hope that helps :)
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Lol, sorry for the double post, but I forgot to address something.
Persuasive context: you've gotta assert yourself at the beginning of your piece--ie have a strong contention that you need to back with your examples.
And you've gotta stick with it...which mayn't be that easy for all prompts in the future...