How do you write a context ‘Persuasive Paragraph’ and a ‘Persuasive essay’?

[DJA]

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.

[McFleurry]

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

[McFleurry]

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...