Persuasive Essay

What is the difference between persuasion and manipulation? Describe a time when you have encountered or used one or both of these.

Think of a metaphor for something that is commonly used in everyday speech (e.g., “Her home is a prison”). Share your metaphor and describe what could happen if someone does not use critical thinking when encountering that metaphor. For example, consider how metaphors can be misinterpreted due to regional or cultural usage. Note: You may not post the same metaphor as someone else.Peer Forum Review

After submitting the First Draft of your essay in Topic 5, post it as a reply to the Peer Review Forum thread in the classroom. You should label your paper and the subject line of your reply with your first name and last name (e.g., Karen Annettes Paper)

Persuasive Essay: Peer Review Worksheet

Part of your responsibility as a student in this course is to provide quality feedback to your peers to help them improve their writing skills. This worksheet will assist you in providing that feedback. Submit this review as an attachment to both your instructor within the assignment bin and into your reply to your peer’s post containing the assigned draft.

Name of the Draft’s Author:

Name of the Peer Reviewer:

Summary
After reading through the draft one time, write a summary (3–5 sentences) of the paper. This should include the stance and the three sub-topics used to support the position within the essay. Do not place your own critique of the essay within this space.

Evaluate the Essay

After a second, closer reading of the draft, evaluate the essay using the Persuasive Essay: Final Draft rubric below. Determine the level of achievement appropriate for each assignment criteria. (Level of achievement ranges from Unsatisfactory to Excellent and are found at the top of the rubric. Assignment criteria are found in the left column of the rubric.). Please use the highlighting tool to score

PHI-105 Types of Communication Table
In order to write a quality persuasive essay that incorporates critical thinking, you must include a mixture of informative, explanatory, and persuasive statements because to persuade someone you must:
a) Inform them about the topic
b) Explain your argument
c) Persuade your audience to your point of view.

Directions:
1. Use the table below to do the following:
a) Choose a concept and write an informative statement, an explanatory statement, and a persuasive statement for the concept in the appropriate boxes. An example has been completed for you in red.
b) In part b of the table, select a concept from the draft of your persuasive essay and provide an example of one informative statement, one explanatory statement, and one persuasive statement based on the concept you chose.
c) As discussed in the module lecture, language is intertwined with critical thinking. In part c of the table, in 200-250 words explain the relationship between informative, explanatory, and persuasive statements and critical thinking.

Concept Informative:
(Just the facts) Explanatory:
(Description of the facts) Persuasive:
(Position on the facts)
Example Concept Baseball Baseball is a sport involving 9 players positioned in various places on a field, who are attempting to keep the other team from advancing bases. There are many ways to score runs in baseball. The most efficient way is for your team to get a series of base hits eventually bringing runners home. In order to do this, players must have good hitting ability, running ability, and judgment. Quality pitchers are more important than power hitters, because keeping runs off the board could give the pitcher’s team more opportunity to win. Teams that have better pitchers almost always end up being the better team.
Part A: Concept of your Choice
Part B: Concept selected from your persuasive essay
Part C: In 200-250 words explain the relationship between informative, explanatory, and persuasive statements and critical thinking