A Comprehensive Guide To Writing Persuasive Essays For Newbies

Students often confuse persuasive papers as persuading someone to take an action. You can do this, of course. However, often, instructors separate persuasive essays into two types: a persuasive essay which seeks to persuade the reader into agreeing with their point of view and a call to action essay. A call to action essay is, yes, a persuasive essay. You are trying to convince your reader to take some kind of overt action. Such as to save our planet, to join in the fight to save wildlife and sea animals from global warming and the loss of our glaciers at the poles that polar bears and penguins so depend upon for foraging from food.

These two types of essays are both persuasive. You are persuading your reader to either a. come over to your point of view on a particular subject – such as believing that students should be allowed to vote before the age of 18. Or, perhaps that the national age of legal drinking in America, for instance, should be lowered to the same age one is allowed to fight, and possibly die for their country.

A call to action essay might seek to persuade its reader that one should vote if they are of legal action and to study up on which politicians will make the most positive changes that they activate. One could focus such an essay solely upon the importance of researching our politician’s views on, say, the war on drugs, before voting blindly, as many people do.

What is important about both types of essays is that one follows a very set structure for both essays. Like an argumentative essay, a persuasive essay will want to follow a structure which, in the second or third to the last paragraph, acknowledges and then refutes the opposing viewpoint’s major argument against theirs. For example, one might begin refuting naysayers by beginning such a paragraph with a lead in such as

“of course, many individuals disagree with my stance on this subject. They believe that . . However, what they are failing to acknowledge is that . . ..”

The basic structure of a persuasive essay goes like this:

I.
  • Introduction

  • II. Inform about background and topic

  • III. Major persuasive point 1

  • IV. Major persuasive point 2

  • V. Major point 3

  • VI. What does the opposition say

  • VII. What is your rebuttal to their argument

  • VIII. Now bring it back around to your point.

A call to action essay will move from an introduction to a call to action in second to final paragraph before their conclusion, following loosely the structure above.

 
 

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