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> What should an essay be? Many people would say persuasive. That's what a lot of us were taught essays should be. Yeah, essays written for a class on persuasi
by _Nat_ 7y ago
> What should an essay be? Many people would say persuasive. That's what a lot of us were taught essays should be.
Yeah, essays written for a class on persuasive writing should be persuasive. Because that's what the class is about -- students are supposed to be learning how to express their ideas about how things should be done to, e.g., their boss, coworkers, clients, potential investors, etc..
However, I hope no one's under the misimpression that all writing should be persuasive writing. Schools also teach classes on other types of writing, e.g. creative writing and technical writing.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> Yeah, essays written in a class that's focusing on persuasive writing should be persuasive. Because that's what the class is about The five paragraph essay which is typically taught as a foundational expository/analytical writing tool is actually quite poor for analytical writing, and not great for expository writing, but heavily leans on the rule of threes which is a guideline for persuasive communication. > Schools also teach classes on other types of writing, e.g. creative writing and technical writing. K-12 often has creative writing as an elective, and often includes assignments which are superficially intended to be something other than persuasive writing on other contexts, but rarely does much to teach techniques appropriate to writing other than persuasive.
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