Higher homework for Feb break (sorry!)

Persuasive proposals to be completed for Monday 22nd (first day back!!)

'Queens English Society' Task- Choose a stance- whether you belive the society should have been closed or not- then change the article to persuade. Use the information in the article and bend it. Add lots of persuasive techniques and any other info you can find. Try to structure it properly. Try to make it stylish and powerful!


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Persuasive plan and example plan

My Persuasive Essay Plan

• You must have at least four main points to thouroughly convince your reader
• Each point should be supported by two pieces of evidence
• Evidence should be a variety of: professional opinions, real life examples, statistics and data, quotes, article excerpts, anecdotes, trusted website information etc.
• Keep track of where you found your evidence. To do this, idenitfy your sources in the bibliography section at the end of this proposal.

Good luck!!! 

 

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Full Name:

 

 

Title of Essay:

My Overall Argument:

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First Point:

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• Evidence 1:

• Evidence 2:

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Second Point:

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• Evidence 1:

• Evidence 2:

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Third Point:

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• Evidence 1:

• Evidence 2:

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Fourth Point:

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• Evidence 1:

• Evidence 2:

Bibliography

This is where you keep track of where you found your evidence. It is necessary to include a bibliography when you submit your completed essay.

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Evidence for body paragraph 2:

 
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Sample Persuasive Essay Proposal

Full Name: Emily Smith

Title of Essay: Why we should assist Euthanasia

My Overall argument: Euthanasia should be legalised

 

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First Point:    Disallowing the practice of Euthanasia to people who suffer is cruel

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• Evidence 1: "The current prohibitions require a person with great physical strength and/or mental suffereing to continue to endure their suffereing against their wishes, which cannot be right!"- Article from the 'Guardian Newspaper', written by Dr Kailash Chand, GP: http://www.theguardian.com/society/joepublic/2009/jul/01/euthanasia-assisted-suicide-uk

• Evidence 2: Sue Roriguez, a mother in her early thirties, died slowly of Lou Gehrig's disease. She lived for several years with the knowledge that he muscles would, one by one, waste away until the day cane when. full conscious, she would choke to death. She begged the Courts to reassure her that a doctor would be allowed to assist her in choosing the moment of death. They refused. She lived on in terror, helped eventually by a doctor who, in February 1994, covertly broke the law to help her die in peace.- Real life example: http://www.euthanasia.cc/cases.html

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Second Point:  Allowing people to die will free up scarce health resources

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• Evidence 1: In most countries there is a shortage of health resources. As a result, some people who are ill and could be cured are not able to get speedy access to the facilities they need for treatment. At the same time, health resources are being used on people who cannot be cured, and who, for their ouwn reasons, would prefer not to continue living.- BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/euthanasia/infavour_1.shtml

• Evidence 2: In 2009, Americal Health Care paid $50 billion just for doctor and hospital bills during the last two months of patients' lives- that's more than the budget of the Department of Homeland Security or the Department of Education.- Article from the CBS News Website, 'The Cost of Dying': http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-5711689.html

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Continue for third point, fourth point, etc.

 

Folio submission notes and link to template!

SUBMITTING YOUR ENGLISH FOLIO

Your English Folio MUST be submitted on paper, but using the SQA’s specially formatted sheet.  The format looks like the sheet you are reading now.

You can get a Word copy of the folio template from the SQA website here:    http://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/47410.html

by clicking on the heading called “Submitting Coursework” ( You can also get a pdf of the template there, but you will not be able to type into it if you use the pdf format)

You can also get a copy of the template here:

http://tinyurl.com/firrhillhttp://tinyurl.com/firrhill

I can also give you a copy of it on a memory stick, if you ask me nicely!

You can type directly onto the template, or you can copy and paste in your writing from another file. You can also print the template and hand-write directly onto it. Both of your Folio pieces MUST be contained within one template. Give a clear indication of where each piece of writing starts by giving each piece a clear title and starting each piece at the top of a new page.

If you are typing directly into the template, it will give you a font, font size and layout automatically.  If you are typing in another file to paste in, please remember:

·         use 12 point print size

·         take a double return for new paragraphs

·         use 1 and half line spacing

Please make sure that your writing stays inside the margin box on the template.

Remember that discursive and persuasive pieces should have a bibliography.

Make sure you know the allowed word count for each piece and you stick to it.

Your Scottish Candidate Number, and a page number must be at the foot of every page in the template, using the boxes provided. These are for the purposes of identification.

It is recommended that the portfolio pieces are printed double-sided, but please do not use staples to attach your pages together.