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Developing Persuasive Arguments through Ethical Inquiry: Two Prewriting Strategies
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| Grades | 9 – 12 |
| Lesson Plan Type | Standard Lesson |
| Estimated Time | Three 50-minute sessions |
| Lesson Author |
Marshall, Minnesota |
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OVERVIEW
In this lesson, students use focused prewriting strategies to explore content and ethical issues related to a persuasive assignment. These strategies work best after students have established their topic and audience and have begun exploring their rhetorical (writing) situation as it relates to a specific, local problem about which they have some knowledge. These strategies would pair well with Joelle Brummitt-Yale’s “Persuading the Principal: Writing Persuasive Letters about School Issues”.
FEATURED RESOURCES
- Ethical Inventory Questions: This tool helps students discover ethical values that they possess and may share with others.
- Ethical Question Star: Students use this tool to discover what ethical values relate to a specific rhetorical (writing) situation of their choice.
FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
This lesson takes the position that “ethical inquiry is an important form of critical thinking and as such it is an important component of students’ cognitive development.” Including prewriting heuristics that encourage ethical inquiry when students are preparing to write practically focused persuasive pieces can help students create “sufficient, audience-based content for their work” and “understand that writing is a form of action and as such can have consequences for themselves and others in the world.”
Further Reading
Henning, Teresa. “Ethics as a Form of Critical and Rhetorical Inquiry in the Writing Classroom.” English Journal 100(6): 34-40.
