Offering instructive guidance in lively text, Writing the Critical Essay: An Opposing Viewpoints Guide directly supports student achievement. This exciting series is specifically designed to help students write effective, persuasive, narrative and other types of essays. Providing easy access to multiple sides of current yet timeless debates, this series covers ideal subjects for essay writing. Each volume has all that students need to complete an essay on a chosen controversial topic, with features like step-by-step exercises to help students outline arguments, write introductions and conclusions and construct their own essays. Plus, supplemental materials offer topic ideas, and suggest electronic resources that allow for further research.
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"...the text not only provides good information about a current controversial topic, but a method of essay analysis that includes selecting words for emotional impact, employing rhetorical questions for persuasive effect, arranging the argument and the evidence. Highly recommended."
--PSLA, May 2007
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