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PERSUASIVE WRITING
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PERSUASIVE WRITING: The purpose of persuasive writing is, yes, you guessed it, to persuade. Therefore, if you are writing in this category, it means that you are trying to convince someone to believe your argument. In order to accomplish this task, you will have to, firstly, engage your audience. This means that you have to get the audience interested in what you are saying. Secondly, you have to ensure that strong points are made to support your argument, and finally, your points have to be organized in such a way that they flow.
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This forms the beginning of your essay. It tells the examiner, or your teacher, that you understand the question and gives them an idea of the points that you plan to use to answer the essay. The three points also form the topic sentences for your three body paragraphs.
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This portion of the essay is an expansion of the points, or the answer, that you gave in your introduction. Each segment of the essay, hence each point, should be given its own paragraph. This is the case because your aim is to express a single idea in one paragraph.
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Q. Is abortion wrong?
Abortion is one of the many inhumane acts that are practiced around the world. Is it not the unnecessary and selfish act of brutally terminating the life of an innocent baby? Is it not an atrocious, costly and malignant procedure that affects the lives of all victims who cross the path of this 'fatal monster'? Without a doubt it is! Abortion is akin to murder, it deprives the world of human beings who could possibly make great contributions and the procedure is invasive and cruel.
Abortion is akin to murder. Many pro-rights activists have argued that a foetus is not human, therefore not a baby, hence cannot be 'murdered', but can be aborted. The two words are one and the same. This is so because there is no clear scientific evidence that clarifies where humanity begins. If a doctor killed a baby one minute after it it were born, he would be charged with murder, but if that same doctor killed a baby that is two weeks in vitro, it is abortion? At what minute, or second, in a child's development is life considered precious? Abortion is a euphemism for murder because all life is precious, no matter the stage of development.
Each human has the potential to act in a way that is exemplary and innovative. By doing so, they make positive contributions to the world. Unborn babies are a manifestation of this potential. Therefore, it is fair to say that aborted babies are robbed of the opportunity to make a positive contribution to the world. Imagine if great men, who changed the course of history, like Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, or even Barack Obama were deprived of the chance to help shape the world as we know it because they were aborted. Where would we be now? We do ourselves an injustice when we deprive the world of brilliant scientists, fearless heroes and loving friends. Unborn babies have the right to life and to fulfill an unknown destiny.
The medical procedure called abortion is a cold operation in which the child can be literally vacuumed out of a woman's vagina, cut in pieces in vitro and extracted, or the baby can be poisoned by inserting a salt solution into the amniotic sac; leading to the delivery of a dead baby. These are just a few methods that highlight the invasive and cruel nature of the procedure. How can this be considered to be right? This is the way in which one treats unwanted garbage, no baby should be classified as such! Birth is natural, even miscarriages are natural, but to employ such cold procedures to rid oneself of a child is invasive and cruel!
Abortion is akin to murder, it deprives the world of human beings who could possibly make great contributions and the procedure is invasive and cruel. If we believe that children are our future, then why do we slaughter thousands of innocent babies who could have become strong, noble leaders that our world desperately needs?
[This essay is a class construction: grade 10, 2011 (Immaculate Conception High School, Jamaica)]
Abortion is one of the many inhumane acts that are practiced around the world. Is it not the unnecessary and selfish act of brutally terminating the life of an innocent baby? Is it not an atrocious, costly and malignant procedure that affects the lives of all victims who cross the path of this 'fatal monster'? Without a doubt it is! Abortion is akin to murder, it deprives the world of human beings who could possibly make great contributions and the procedure is invasive and cruel.
Abortion is akin to murder. Many pro-rights activists have argued that a foetus is not human, therefore not a baby, hence cannot be 'murdered', but can be aborted. The two words are one and the same. This is so because there is no clear scientific evidence that clarifies where humanity begins. If a doctor killed a baby one minute after it it were born, he would be charged with murder, but if that same doctor killed a baby that is two weeks in vitro, it is abortion? At what minute, or second, in a child's development is life considered precious? Abortion is a euphemism for murder because all life is precious, no matter the stage of development.
Each human has the potential to act in a way that is exemplary and innovative. By doing so, they make positive contributions to the world. Unborn babies are a manifestation of this potential. Therefore, it is fair to say that aborted babies are robbed of the opportunity to make a positive contribution to the world. Imagine if great men, who changed the course of history, like Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, or even Barack Obama were deprived of the chance to help shape the world as we know it because they were aborted. Where would we be now? We do ourselves an injustice when we deprive the world of brilliant scientists, fearless heroes and loving friends. Unborn babies have the right to life and to fulfill an unknown destiny.
The medical procedure called abortion is a cold operation in which the child can be literally vacuumed out of a woman's vagina, cut in pieces in vitro and extracted, or the baby can be poisoned by inserting a salt solution into the amniotic sac; leading to the delivery of a dead baby. These are just a few methods that highlight the invasive and cruel nature of the procedure. How can this be considered to be right? This is the way in which one treats unwanted garbage, no baby should be classified as such! Birth is natural, even miscarriages are natural, but to employ such cold procedures to rid oneself of a child is invasive and cruel!
Abortion is akin to murder, it deprives the world of human beings who could possibly make great contributions and the procedure is invasive and cruel. If we believe that children are our future, then why do we slaughter thousands of innocent babies who could have become strong, noble leaders that our world desperately needs?
[This essay is a class construction: grade 10, 2011 (Immaculate Conception High School, Jamaica)]
Contributor: Leisa Samuels-Thomas
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