PL HELP Think of something we could do to affect a change in racism, and write a persuasive essay. Be as specific as possible. Your paper needs to be submitted here. It should be between 15 and 25 lines long. Do not change the font size; leave it like this. Be sure to have a thesis; be sure to state your idea clearly in the first paragraph.

Please pretend this is a STAAR test, and try to write it in one sitting. It is not supposed to be a perfect, final draft essay. I’d like it turned in to the HUB by Tuesday morning, 3/30, at 8am.

Reminders:

Persuasive essays try to touch the audience with four techniques. Make your reader respond by using these tricks.

Pathos- emotion

Ethos- fairness and appeal to authority

Logos- logic

Kairos- a sense of urgency

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." lately, i’ve been giving more thought to the kind of english my mother speaks. like others, i have described it to people as “broken” or “fractured” english. but i wince when i say that. it has always bothered me that i can think of no other way to describe it other than “broken,” as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness and soundness. what best supports the inference that tan believes nonstandard english is no less valid than standard english? tan spends a lot of time thinking about her mother’s “fractured” english. tan has trouble thinking of descriptive words when she is writing. tan’s american education makes it difficult for her to understand her mother. tan winces when she describes her mother’s english as “broken.”