Stand up!
By: by Melaina Faranda
Series: Mainsails 4; Sails literacy series
Publisher: Pearson Education
Published: 2009
Place of publication: North Shore, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781869706081
Subjects: Readers; English language; Rhetoric; Persuasion (Rhetoric); Environmental protection; Juvenile literature
Description: Presents a series of articles on topical and controversial issues which demonstrate the use of rhetoric to present a persuasive argument. Includes notes for planning and writing a persuasive argument.
Notes: Cover title.

"Persuasive text"--Back cover.

Reader for children.
Table of contents: title: The history of debate; title: Save the planet: stop eating meat!; title: Humans were designed to eat meat; title: Models in advertisements give us a bad body image; title: Models in advertisements are good role models; title: Wage war on global warming; title: Global warming: is there another solution?; title: Nuclear power is essential; title: End the nuclear age now; title: Genetically modified food and agri-business are the way of the future; title: Say no to genetically modified food and agri-business; title: Globalisation: the world needs it!; title: Globalisation is a threat to third world countries.