AP-+L'Essaie+Persuasive

Tips for the persuasive essay: The persuasive essay has to have an introduction, treat the opposing views of the two sources of information, and give the student's personal opinion, then conclude.One should use "on" in the AP essay where a student will read + listen + view a neutral graph. (these + antithese + sythese) 5 paragraphs are a goal. What is sure is that students must present different viewpoints (including reference to viewpoints in the sources provided) and then defend their own opinion. How they organize their essay may well be in 5 paragraphs but not necessarily.

The persuasive essay- TIPS 1) **All three sources are clearly referenced using verbal strategies such as "d'après la seconde source..."**. Allusions and just stating the name of the person who talked is not sufficient. 2) Our students in foreign language, as opposed to those in History, etc, are supposed to ** interpret **what they have understood. I heard and understood that the students are **not to synthesis** the content from the three sources. Synthesis is what the students are taught to do in AP History. 3) Our students will need a) to demonstrate understanding of what was written and said, b) to say why it is important in order to support their argument and c) to provide justification, or an extension as to how their supporting details promote or imped the topic of the argument. In other words, "what is the difference that the example will make" in the argument. 4) Rich language, a variety of sentence structures and complex sentences: relative pronouns EX: ceux, auquel, ce dont and gerunds. For practice on writing complex sentences, on the Wiki, I have posted in the Grammar page, a series of Sentence Recombination activities. Each group of simple sentences is to be written as one sentence and AVOID using "et". 5) Students should write on the same level of complexity as the sources. -James O'Donnel.