Persuasive Essays Are Bad Assignments
Beginning of paper
There is no logical reason to write a persuasive essay for an
English class. Persuasive essays definitely do not need to be a
requirement for high school students.
The definition of “persuade” in Webster's New College Dictionary
is: To induce one to believe or do something; to argu ....
Middle of paper
.... 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
find myself getting bribed into doing a lot of schoolwork these days.) I
realiz ....
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