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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Persuasion Development Template

copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman

Note: We recommend that you read our "Essay Patterns of Development" post before you read this post.

Persuasion: Use appeals to emotion and reasons to convince your audience to accept your point of view or to perform an action that you recommend.

Note: Argumentation is similar to persuasion, except that persuasion’s primary technique is to appeal to the emotions to convince the reader to adopt a point of view or to take a particular action, supporting emotional appeals with optional, appropriate, but supplemental, reasons for doing so.

Topic: Persevere in the pursuit of your college degree

Use this blank template to generate a thesis for your own persuasive essay:

THESIS:

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