Changing the world
Subtitle: persuasive speeches, petitions, and editorials
By: Lucy Calkins and Kelly Boland Hohne ; photography by Peter Cunningham
Contributors: Hohne, Kelly Boland, author
Publisher: Firsthand, an imprint of Heinemann
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Portsmouth, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780325047348
Subjects: Authorship; Editorials; Composition and exercises; Persuasion (Rhetoric); Speeches, addresses; English language; Study and teaching (Elementary)
Table of contents: title: Practicing persuasion; title: Gathering brave, bold opinions for persuasive writing; title: Drawing on a repertoire of strategies for generating opinion writing: writing with independence; title: Considering audience to say more; title: Editing as we go: making sure our audience can always read our pieces; title: Taking stock and setting goals; title: Gathering all we know about our opinions; title: Organizing and categorizing; title: For example: proving by showing; title: Considering audience to select our most convincing material; title: Paragraphing to organize our drafts; title: Revising for sound and to evoke emotion; title: Inquiry into petitions and persuasive letters; title: Becoming our own job captains; title: Gathering a variety of evidence: interviews and surveys; title: Revising your introductions and conclusions to get your audience to care; title: Taking stock again: goal setting with more independence; title: Tackling a cause from different angles; title: Becoming informed about our cause; title: Yesterday's revisions become today's drafting strategies; title: Getting our writing ready for readers; title: Celebrating activism.