Offering instructive guidance in an appealing format Writing the Critical Essay: An Opposing Viewpoints Guide directly supports student achievement. This exciting full-color series is specifically designed to help students write effective five-paragraph essays and beyond. Writing the Critical Essay: An Opposing Viewpoints Guide expands Greenhaven Press®’s celebrated Opposing Viewpoints product line, providing easy access to multiple sides of current, yet timeless debates — ideal subjects for persuasive writing.

Writing the Critical Essay: An Opposing Viewpoints Guide has all students need to complete an essay on a chosen controversial topic. Using exemplary presentations of opposing viewpoints as research material, each book features:

•Modelessaysthatguidestudentsinwritinga particular five-paragraph essay, including persuasive, descriptive, expository, narrative, compare and contract, cause-and-effect essays

•Guidedreadinganddiscussionquestionsthat help students understand the essays themselvesandtargetpersuasivetechniquesauthors use to compose convincing arguments

•Afinalessaythatencouragesstudentstogobeyond the five-paragraph model

•Sequentialstep-by-stepexercisesthathelp students outline arguments, write introductions and conclusions, and ultimately construct their own essays

•Supplementalmaterialsthatprovideessaytopic ideas

•Bibliographicandelectronicresourcesfor further research

•Andmore

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Writing the Critical Essay: An Opposing Viewpoints Guide

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