Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Professional Writer's Models: Grade 10: Persuasive Essay [Pdf]
From the novel titled "We the Media," this essay from writer Adam Hochschild presents a persuasive argument against the volume of televisions in places of public transport. A good model which can be used as a resource for students.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Writing the Persuasive Essay: Counterarguments Based on Evidence
You will be able to write an essay including counter-arguments that anticipate objections.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Counterarguments Based on Evidence
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising counter-arguments that anticipate objections in an essay.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Issues: Persuasive Writing
This lesson focuses on persuasive writing including what it is and is not and the components of persuasive writing. It features links to guides including Purdue Owl: "Logic in Argumentative Writing" and Study Guides and Strategies:...
Other
Idea: Debatabase
The IDEA Debatabase is designed to help high school and college level debaters by providing both pro and con arguments for hundreds of debate topics. These arguments have been prepared by experts in debate, both debaters and judges....
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: "Where Is the Love?"
Using the song "Where Is the Love" by the Black-Eyed Peas and "Excuse Me, Mr." by Ben Harper, students will begin to think about injustices that exist in our world. Ultimately, student writers will compose an essay based on a persuasive...
TES Global
Blendspace: Argument Writing: Homework
A learning module with links to eight websites to use while writing an argumentative essay on how beneficial homework is.
Boise State University
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
This online writing assistance offers help in the writing process, grammar and mechanics, usage, and four different types of essays, as well as help on deciding what and how to document.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analysis of Relative Values of Specific Data, Facts, and Ideas
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you're going to begin to think about how to analyze the data, facts, and ideas that you need to support your argument, the final step in planning your...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Argumentative Papers: Lesson 1
This lesson introduces argumentative papers. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Argumentative Papers."