03 Persuasive Outline // Due the week of September 23, 2015

Hi Everyone!

This week in class, we reviewed the persuasive essay outline, which looks like this:

1. Introduction
1. Attention-grabber
2. Thesis = Opinion because Reason1, Reason2, and Reason3
2. Paragraph about R1
1. Info
2. Details
3. Evidence
3. Paragraph about R2
1. Info
2. Details
3. Evidence
4. Paragraph about R3
1. Info 
2. Details
3. Evidence
5. Conclusion

For homework, you will write one of these for the topic you chose for your persuasive article. 

Keep in mind:

• You do not need to write out your attention-grabber yet; you can just write "attention-grabber." Same with the conclusion.
• Everything else should be written out.

• For the info, details, and evidence, you can make up evidence as a place-holder for evidence you intend to find once we move onto the research portion of this assignment (next week). 
• For example, if my R1 is:
• Cats are better than dogs because cats are safer than dogs.
• Cats have injured 0 people in the last year, whereas dogs have injured 246.
• Dr. John Doe says, "I see dog bites come in all the time. They're pretty frequent and bad. But I've never seen someone come in from a cat attack."
•  A little boy in the news had a cat save him from a dog attack
• The details above were all things I made up, to save time, but I beileve I'll be able to find research that is at least similar to the above facts when I start my research, so at least now I have ideas of where I want to go with this.
• If you would like to get started on research now, feel free to do so!

• For the details/evidence section, consider the three types of evidence:
• Logos: Logical
• Statistics
• Facts
• Pathos: Personal
• Emotional stories
• Ethos: Expert opinion
• Quotes from experts

So the checklist for the homework is:

• Does it have a well-thought out thesis?
• Each Reason should be able to support a paragraph.
• Does each body paragraph correlate to one of the three Reasons from the thesis?
• Does each body paragraph have at least 3-5 pieces of evidence that I intend to find online?
• Is it typed and posted to Google Drive?

**Normally there will be more homework--but this is a key foundational part and I don't want to rush through it.