Workshop 4: Teaching Persuasive Writing

Samples of Student Work

Editor's note: The sample student papers have been reproduced exactly as the students wrote them, including mechanical and grammatical errors.

Various stages in one student's piece, "Can We Go Out Back?"

• Sample pre-writing exercise: a list of potential topics (pdf)
• Reasons for the proposal (pdf)
• Reasons against the proposal (pdf)
• Possible solutions to the argument (pdf)
• Alternative introduction (pdf)
• Early draft (pdf)
• Final draft (pdf)

Additional Samples

• "Drama Class" - Sample persuasive writing piece (pdf)
• "Let Us Get An Ice Rink" - Sample persuasive writing (pdf)
• "The Van" - Sample persuasive writing piece (pdf)