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Plan - Select a topic. 2. Topic for your argumentative essay: ___________________________________ 3. Are you taking the pro side or the con side? ________________ Plan - Determine your purpose and audience. Remember that you are trying to persuade your audience. 4. What is the purpose of your argumentative essay? _______________________________ Now, determine the potential audience's characteristics to discern whether the potential audience will be interested, disinterested, or opposed. 5. What are the audience's: a. age and size ________________ d. education background _________ b. cultural background __________ e. social background _____________ c. religious background _________ f. political background ____________ 6. How much does your audience know about the topic? __________________ 7. Since your purpose is to persuade, will your audience be disinterested, interested, or opposed to the topic? _________ 8. What level of formality do you plan to use? ________________ 9. What tone do you plan to use? __________________________ Plan - Choose a form. Forms in which persuasive writing are used include advertisements, journal/magazine articles, debates, newspaper editorials, essays, propaganda, and speeches. 10. Choose the form of your argumentative essay: _____________ Develop ideas and gather information. Freewrite Write freely about the topic you selected for your argumentative essay on a separate document. Brainstorm Quickly list any specific ideas you may have about your argumentative essay's topic. Ask Who? What? Where? When? Why? and How?