Persausive essays are pointless
The definition of "persuade" in Webster's New College Dictionary is: To induce one to believe or do something; to argue into an opinion or procedure; to plead with, urge. I have believed that one who allows his opinion be changed by another is someone who lacks a strong will. I understand that people have the talent of convincing others, but personally I would not change my mind about a subject unless I was unsure about it in the beginning.
While writing this essay I have become aware of one personal trait, which I do not really care about much. I have no intention of letting other people know about the few things that I do care about. I found it pointless to try to write a persuasive essay about a subject for which I do not care about. The only thing I could think to try to convince people to do was to refuse to write a persuasive essay ever again. I faced a kind of moral paradox with this, though. If I wrote a persuasive essay telling people not to write persuasive essays, what kind of example would I be? I was convinced that I was not going to do this paper, but in a showing of my own lack of will, I was bribed into writing this essay. I realize that teachers would probably be angry about this somewhat counter productive essay, but nevertheless students should refuse to write persuasive essays unless their own will convinces them to do so.
Most persuasive essays written by adolescents are fluff in the eyes of authority anyway. Sure, you could write a persuasive essay about plenty of subjects. For example, "Kids should be allowed to skateboard anywhere they want." It's a perfectly fine essay for someone who really cares about it.
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while your subject is very interesting, you tend to go of topic and use an informal tone. For example, you seem to wander of the topic of papers and into skateboarding, while expressing your views on parental lectures. It was still very interesting however, but I was wondering what you suggest english teachers assign their students to do instead of persuasive papers... grammer homework?
I hope you realize that this in itself is a persuasive essay - which makes this pointless. Sorry if I'm too harsh...but you're trying to convince people (through a persuasive essay), that persuasive essays are pointless.
for one thing, proofread.
for another thing, persuasive essays should appeal to logic, not emotion. Since that is fact, it renders the rest of your "argument" irrelevant, doesn't it?
As for 30 year old skateboarders, the name Tony Hawk comes to mind.
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Interesting viewpoint
this is a very good concept to argue! i definitely agree about the overemphasis on persuasive essays
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