Persuasive Essay: Portfolio Assessment and University First-year Writing Courses
Length: 1,000 -1,200/4-5 pages not including the works cited page
Essay structure: five-paragraph essay (introduction, three bodies, conclusion)
Specific requirements for each paragraph:
Introduction:
1) Personal experiences of your previous English writing grading; that is, how was it graded?
2) Thesis statement: take a position and three reasons
Body:
1) your reason 1 in a topic sentence
2) Discussions and two different research articles as supports to your reason
3) Concussing sentence (optional)
Body 2
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Body 3
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Conclusion:
1) restate your position and three reasons (Don’t discuss three reasons in details any more)
2) Your suggestions/recommendations
Work cites: please dm me for those work cites. IT REALLY NEEDS ITTT!

