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Read the beginning of Michelle`s story. The ten summer camp kids I`m teaching are seated around a weathered-gray wood picnic table in Woodland Park, paper squares at the ready. I explain to them that Japanese paper folding, or origami, is an art, a skill, a tradition. I say that our fingers know more than our eyes, and that there must always be balance a fold this way and then that, on both sides. It`s the folding and unfolding in the metaphorical sense as well as the actual sense, if you really put your heart and hands into it, that causes your square of paper to transform into a bird or a fish. Michelle wants her next paragraph to establish the narrator`s point of view. Which paragraph will most effectively achieve this goal?1. Origami is an ancient art form. Still, I`d never even heard of it before last year. The first origami object I made was a boat, and after that I made a swan.2. Some kids just stare up at home. Others seem to have ignored what I`ve just said about origami and are already busy folding their squares into paper airplanes.3. I am trying hard to sound like an export. Yet, I feel like a fraud. The sum total of my knowledge about origami came from a book I bought at a neighbor`s garage sale.4. I imagine that some kids will probably be better at origami than others. It`s too early to tell which kids will struggle with origami and which kids will just instinctively understand it.
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?