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Anonymous asked in Education & ReferenceHomework Help · 1 decade ago

Persuasive Essay Help!! Attention Getter!!?

I am doing my essay on our schools grading scale policy. It has become much harder this year and alot of students are struggling. So i am trying to persuade my principle it should be changed back to the old policy.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    A good attention getter in a persuasive essay tends to be an appeal to the audience, it also doubles as a "taste" of your main points (a thesis sentence of sorts)

    For a logical appeal, statistics are always a good strategy if you can find some, maybe the % of schools in the nation on the harder grading scale, and the %passing of standardized tests of schools on that grading scale.

    For an emotional appeal, you could talk about the impact of the scale on the morale of the students either by interviewing students or making up a hypothetical story (Nelly was a straight-A student with hopes of getting into college with a 4.0 high school GPA etc).

    An ethical appeal is rougher in this case, but depending on your grade level, you could talk about the competitveness of getting into college (or a high school honors program) and how appearance is everything. By lowering the number of As and Bs with the new scale, the schools are putting their students at a disadvantage, etc.

  • 4 years ago

    start up out with a short tale like follows... think of, you survive a farm for all your existence. Your 9 years previous, and you have a ultimate pal. Her call is Betsy, and he or she's a cow. you have continually fed her your self, and teach her the place the ultimate grass is. Then, at some point you come residing house from college and he or she's no longer there. You ask your dad. She became slaughtered, so as that some guy or woman ought to eat her. you have lost your ultimate pal to a stupid concept that that is critical to eat meat. EH, lame occasion, yet i like something alongside those traces.

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