Task 2: Persuasive Essay After gathering relevant evidence, forming an opinion, and creating an outline, it’s time to write a persuasive essay. Your purpose for writing this essay will be to defend your opinion. You will use your outline and the thesis statement to write the essay. You can use this essay as a reference while completing your own essay.
Make sure you keep in mind the given checklist of elements while writing your essay. You should be familiar with these elements because they have been covered in this unit as well as other lessons throughout the course.

What is the best way to punctuate the bolded portion of the sentence? do you see the kite floating in the air? the father asked the young child. “do you see the kite floating in the air”? the ‘do you see the kite floating in the air? ’ the do you see the kite floating in the air? the “do you see the kite floating in the air? ” the

Read the extract below and identify the three kind(s) of bias that are apparent within it. despite being reintroduced in the 1600s by idle, muddle-headed aristocrats in order to be slaughtered for fun, all the wild boars that were brought to australia from the continent eventually died out. for the next 300 years there were no boars in australia, but in the 1980s farmers saw a chance to diversify and began to import and farm them. some of these beautiful, intelligent animals escaped and established herds of their own, once again living wild and purely natural lives. while their ideal home is in woodland, boars are hardy and are able to live in multiple habitats. a/ mistreatment of opposing views b/ positive stereotyping c/ subjective vocabulary d/ personal attacks e/statistics f/ corporate bias e/ negative stereotyping g/ offensive language

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.