Persuasive Research Essay Instructions<\/p>\n
Your assignment is to write a research-based persuasive\/argument essay. It should follow MLA Guidelines, include at least three secondary sources, use in-text citation, <\/p>\n
include a Works Cited page, and come to 1000 words or 4 full pages of your own writing.<\/p>\n
Word count, of course, isn\u2019t the same as word quality. Quotations don\u2019t count. <\/p>\n
Your subject is Climate Change. You need to narrow to a sub-topic and to find a target audience. <\/p>\n
Your target audience is a tool to make your job easier. The more qualifications you add (gender, age, pay, location, marital status, etc.) the more chances you give yourself to appeal to them. <\/p>\n
Your target audience tells you what to look for and how to frame what you find. <\/p>\n
The first mistake that students make is to blow off using Opposing Viewpoints. <\/p>\n
Luckily, you are required to use Opposing Viewpoints for this class. Find the link in the navigation page on the left side of our homepage. <\/p>\n
You will not only find the subject but hundreds of sub-topics related to it, all with accompanying articles, graphs, and polls. Each article is summarized. Each sub-topic is seen from various points of view. <\/p>\n
So: Consult Opposing Viewpoints to help you find a sub-topic, something relating to land, air, sea, any affected creatures, etc. If you don\u2019t, you fail the assignment. <\/p>\n
Climate Change>Air Pollution<\/p>\n
Then you must narrow again: Climate Change>Air Pollution>Combustion engines>gas-powered lawnmowers and leaf-blowers.<\/p>\n
Continue narrowing until you find a manageable field of knowledge, one you can write about intelligently and persuasively in only 4 pages: <\/p>\n
CC>AP>Gas engines>Virginia Beach, and so on. <\/p>\n
You will also narrow to (and for) your audience as well. <\/p>\n
Persuade the new owner of a lawn service company that he needs to give his people push-mowers and rakes to help save the sky. You know their answer already.<\/p>\n
Persuade your meat-eating friend to cut back on beef. <\/p>\n
Every audience has wants and needs. Address them. <\/p>\n
Bring the larger topic to the kitchen table.<\/p>\n
You can formulate a research question: Do we burn more energy during Daylight Savings Time? What is happening to the polar bears and can we save their habitat?<\/p>\n
You can read the newspapers for a suitable incident to find common ground. \u201cLast night at the Oscars,\u201d \u201cYesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy\u201d<\/p>\n
You can go to the Virginian-Pilot for stories, incidents, etc. <\/p>\n
You will be doing what you\u2019ve been watching others do: trying to move a particular audience. <\/p>\n
How will you sell your argument, make it stick, connect? Tell a story? Give some numbers? Make comparisons? List examples? Will you scare us, relieve us?<\/p>\n
Get started. <\/p>\n
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