3.1 Discursive Writing

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1. 3.1 Discursive Writing

2. 3.1 Discursive Writing

School Uniform

Should school uniform be banned?

3. 3.1 Discursive Writing

In today’s lesson:

« develop knowledge and understanding of the
structure and style of a discursive essay

4. Opening your essay

5. Opening your essay
* Provocative
“It is difficult to see how anyone can approve of fox hunting”

6. Opening your essay
* Provocative
“It is difficult to see how anyone can approve of fox hunting”

» Balanced

“Fox hunting is a topic about which people hold strongly contrasting
views”

7. Opening your essay
* Provocative
“It is difficult to see how anyone can approve of fox hunting”

» Balanced

“Fox hunting is a topic about which people hold strongly contrasting
views”

* Quotation
“Oscar Wilde once described fox hunting as ‘The unspeakable in

pursuit of the uneatable’.

8. Opening your essay
* Provocative
“It is difficult to see how anyone can approve of fox hunting”

» Balanced
“Fox hunting is a topic about which people hold strongly contrasting
views”

* Quotation
“Oscar Wilde once described fox hunting as ‘The unspeakable in

pursuit of the uneatable’.

» Illustration

“On a glorious autumn morning a terrified, exhausted animal is savaged
to death by a pack of baying dogs while a group of expensively dressed
humans encourage the dogs in their bloody work.”

9. Opening your essay
+ Provocative
“It is difficult to see how anyone can approve of fox hunting”

» Balanced
“Fox hunting is a topic about which people hold strongly contrasting views”

* Quotation

“Oscar Wilde once described fox hunting as ‘The unspeakable in pursuit of
the uneatable’.”

+ Illustration

“On a glorious autumn morning a terrified, exhausted animal is savaged to
death by a pack of baying dogs while a group of expensively dressed
humans encourage the dogs in their bloody work.”

+ Anecdote
“| have always detested fox hunting since | was almost physically sick
while watching a television film of the kill at the end of a hunt.”

10. BBC Bitesize

11. 3.1 Discursive Writing

same line of conclusion / definite contrasting idea
thought summary statement

secondly thus unquestionably yet
furthermore therefore without question | on the other hand
likewise consequently without doubt nevertheless
in addition in conclusion however
similarly as a result although
also hence conversely
moreover

12. 3.1 Discursive Writing
Topics

* Should Union Terrace Gardens be retained or redeveloped?

* Should Scotland become an independent nation?

* Gaelic should be compulsory in schools

+ Should the monarchy be abolished?

+ Should Scotland join the Euro?

* Mobile phones should be banned from schools

* Sports salaries are too high

» Factory farming should be banned

» Reality television is corrupting our society

+ Downloading music without permission is theft and is immoral