Question

Brainstorm ideas for your persuasive essay. Read the writing prompt again before you begin.

Answer 1

Idea- no parents shouldn’t be able to just hop on a web cam and watch their children in class because it is an invasion of privacy.
Reasons- if parents listening in on their children’s lessons was important, children would have their lessons at home; sometimes school is a place where kids can finally be somewhere that’s not their homes and be free from their parents judgmental gaze

Answer 2

Answer:  Understanding the Writing Process

Sometimes writing can seem overwhelming. How do you move from an idea to a finished essay? And how do you know when your essay is complete? It helps to think about writing as a series of steps. Then you can focus on one step at a time. When you've gone through all the steps, you'll have a solid piece of writing.

All together, the steps make up the writing process. The writing process helps you tackle a writing assignment in a particular order. But the process is flexible too. You can return to earlier steps anytime you need to.

The writing process can be broken down into seven steps:

brainstorming

outlining

drafting

reviewing

revising

proofreading

publishing

As you write, you'll do the steps in this order. But you can also return to earlier steps to rethink your writing. In this lesson, you'll go through the brainstorming, outlining, and drafting stages. Later, you'll finish the rest of the writing process in the activity for this unit. The unit activity will guide you through the reviewing, revising, and proofreading steps.

Types of Essays

You can use the writing process to write any type of essay. But you'll need to adjust the steps of the process to work best for each type of essay. In this lesson, we'll focus on writing a persuasive essay. The term persuade means "to convince." So, a persuasive essay is one that tries to convince readers of something. Let's take a look at this type of essay in contrast with some others.

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