persuasion (rhetoric)

"Introduces opinion writing to children using photographs as idea prompts"--.

Examines the methods of famous public speakers, among them Francis Bacon, Mark Twain, and Martin Luther King, Jr., to show how they kept the attention of their audiences, and explains how to learn from them.

This book describes how to write persuasively from prewriting, research, organization, drafts, proofreading, to presentation.

Offers teaching strategies and resources to instruct sixth- through twelfth-graders on how to prepare and write strong arguments and evaluate the arguments of others, providing step-by-step guidance on arguments of fact, judgment, and policy, and including advice to help students understand how judgments get made in the real world, how to develop and support criteria for an argument, and related topics.