Better Argumentative Writing

As you know most students struggle with persuasive writing, the argumentative essay being one of the hardest for them to complete successfully.
This insight to argumentative writing is so helpful for students.
An 18 slide PPT and a supplementary guide help the student in the following ways:

• Outlines the structure of any style of argumentative essay: Introduction, Body and Conclusion
• Demonstrates ways to introduce the topic with opening sentence, thesis and preview of arguments
• Shows how the body paragraphs are structured, each starting with a topic sentence, development of points and clinching statement.
• Demonstrates ways to conclude an essay with the emphasis on not including extra arguments. Simply, summing up with a restatement of arguments and outcomes which may have a call to action.
• A precis of the two different types of argumentative writing-one sided and two sided.
• Type of language used to connect ideas.
• A model of a one sided argument done in a counterpoint way.