Ellis students are steadily preparing for the upcoming writing assessment February 21, 2008. Social studies' teachers are focusing on persuasive mode of writing. Steps include:
1. read prompt at least 4 times,
2. create a graphic organizer to organize reasons that appeal to the audience;
3. write rough draft: use at least 5 paragraphs: with an introduction(grabber, clearly stated opinion, 3 reasons with transitions, and a transition sentence), 3 body paragraphs for the 3 strong reasons that support the opinion, and a concluding paragraph that finishes it off, adding a couple of extra "fluff sentences", and end the whole paper with a very well written sentence that leaves the reader with an imprint of the essay. Make it something the reader won't easily forget.
4. When you have 25 minutes left, copy the rough draft onto the test.
TIPS: write at least a 5 sentence paragraph each time, know the audience, stick to a certain tone, whether it's formal, informal, funning, pleasing, be familiar with persuasive words in support of and in support against, use 1 or 2 $100 vocabulary words, vivid verbs, facts, not just opinions,
