Teaching and Learning the Writing of Persuasive/Argumentative Discourse

Abstract

School students' performance in persuasive/argumentative writing is not as goo as their performance in narrative writing. Typical weaknesses are lack of supp for reasons, poor organization, and immature language. Persuasive writing is thought to be difficult because it is more cognitively demanding than narrati writing. Persuasive/argumentative writing should, however, be included in th elementary curriculum, for a number of reasons: persuasion occurs early in spoken language, precursors of argument appear in the writing of very you children, even poor persuasive writing shows embryonic forms of argument, a children's social and educational experiences offer abundant opportunities fo contextually relevant writing.

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