Writing a Persuasive Essay

• Have you been assigned to write a persuasive essay and you don’t how to persuade your professor to believe what you want him to believe in?
• While writing a persuasive essay you seem to be very weak in proving your point to the reader?
• Confused how to stand on a persuasive essay topic by using strong evidences?

You can easily persuade your college to mark your Persuasive Essay a “2:1 Standard” if you follow the following guidelines:

Persuasive Writing – Essay

 Topics

There are several different ways that you may select a topic for your persuasive essay. You may be given a prompt by your teacher or a choice of several prompts. Or you may have to come with an appropriate topic yourself. If you do have some choice in the topic selection, it’s helpful if you go for the one that interests you. Here is the list of some interesting persuasive essay topics:

• Persuade your mother to go to ______ (country) with your _____ class.
• Persuade your principal to provide funds for a field trip to ___________.
• Persuade your friend to join an environmental club with you
• Persuade a friend to become a volunteer hospital worker
• Persuade your parents that playing sports will benefit you
• Convince your teacher that you are too sick to participate in sports for the day
• Persuade your classmates to follow guidelines for kitchen cleanliness.
• Persuade your friend to eat a more healthy diet.
• Persuade your friend to become an organ donor.
• Persuade your classmates that studying World War I is important

Persuasive Writing – Essay 

 Brainstorm

Brainstorm the essay ideas by using whichever method that works best for you. The method may be free writing, listing or clustering. Jot down your thoughts about your topic. Make sure you aware of where you are standing on the issue.

Persuasive Writing – Essay Investigation

Discuss you topic with your class-mates, family and friends to know what are their responses about it? The responses that you get from the discussion will give you a preview of how they would respond to your opinion in your essay paper. This will give you even more clue what you are supposed to say to persuade them to your point of view.

Persuasive Writing – Essay Research

Read and research as much as you can about your essay topic sitting libraries or searching online.

Persuasive Writing – Essay Thinking

It may seem understandable, but you really have to think about how you are going to persuade your reader. Use calm, reasoning tone and make sure haven’t insulted your readers in your paper. Depend on logic rather than emotion. Give the most logical argument in explaining your reader why, despite the other side of the argument, your viewpoint is the “right”.

Persuasive Writing – Essay Organization

Make sure that points you have made are well organized and your supporting ideas are clear and to-the-point. It is very important that you use specific and relevant strong examples to illustrate your main points. You must give your reader a solid impression that you are firmly educated on the issues related to your topics.

Best of luck Students!

Article By: Calvert Connel