JIS English for Academic Purposes

Introduce the power and the purpose of persuasion; develop student knowledge of strategies/techniques associated with persuasion; develop student ability to identify authors' purpose, arguments, and supporting evidence; develop students' abilities to conduct research in order to support a perspective with supporting evidence.

Unit 3 (5 weeks) Using Informational Text in Literature Study and Book Clubs

Reading Strategies online: great resource

You already spend a lot of time trying to persuade your parents or teachers to allow you to watch more TV or do less homework. Now you can use those same skills to write a persuasive essay!

Great resource for reading interventions that help students to progress as readers

Teaching and Assessing Writing with the 6-Traits

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Tons of great 2.0 tools for us to use in our EAP classes!

When you set out to persuade someone, you want them to accept your opinion on an issue: you want to change that person's mind to your way of thinking. To do this, you will - just as with 'writing to argue' - be presenting a written argument; but when you are trying to persuade, your argument will need to be more one-sided than the balanced presentation of views typically required in a "Writing to Argue" essay question. This is because persuasion is based on a personal conviction that your way of thinking is the right way.

Interactive Tools and Lessons for "Persuasive Writing"