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Synopsis
Take your students step-by-step through the process of writing a persuasive paper using the easy-to-use, easy-to-understand lessons in Twisting Arms. The book also includes helpful information on conducting research, avoiding plagiarism, rebutting arguments, and more. Best of all, Twisting Arms helps students start with a topic that they are already passionate about and funnel their opinions into an organized and persuasive paper.
While this book covers a lot of information, it is designed so that teachers can pick and choose the activities best suited for their classroom. Use the book as an integral part of a large persuasive writing unit, or choose various activities throughout the year to focus on different skills. Some of the topics included in this book include:
- fact versus opinion;
- avoiding wish-washy terms;
- Aristotle's three modes of persuasion;
- plagiarism;
- using tradition words;
- and much more.
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About the Author
Dawn DiPrince loves to teach writing. She has helped many people, from age 7 to 87, to become writers. She has taught poetry, journalism and other writing to middle school students at a local after-school program. And, through her autobiography writing classes, she has enjoyed teaching hundreds of adults to write their life stories. The former owner and editor of BlueSky Quarterly (a magazine that celebrates life in southeastern Colorado), DiPrince is now the Associate Director of the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center in Pueblo, Colorado. She loves her job because nearly 70 percent of her work day is spent writing.
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