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S2 Exercise 28: Curfews

 

PERSUASION TASK 6

Before you go on to write your essay you need to think about how best to present your argument in a convincing and persuasive way.   So look at a couple of examples.


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Trousers4girls

There are still many schools where girls are forbidden from wearing trousers as part of their uniform.  I am sick of girls being discriminated against in this way.   In school teachers say that everyone is equal and that they should be treated the same.   However, in this instance, girls are being discriminated against and the school uniform policy blatantly contradicts this statement.

 Firstly, I feel that girls should be allowed to wear trousers because girls get cold too.  The current fashion is that skirts should be worn really short.  No-one would be seen dead in a long skirt.  In winter, this means that we freeze to death or have to wear sticky, itchy tights, which are uncomfortable and expensive.   And, if we don’t wear tights, we have to shave our legs everyday or worse still suffer the excruciating pain of having them waxed.

 Secondly, trousers are much more practical.   Have you tried running for a bus in a skirt?   We are scared to bend down to tie our shoe laces in case perverts are trying to check us out.   Furthermore, going up and down stairs and sitting down is a total nightmare.   If we wear short skirts, parents and teachers are constantly on our backs saying that our skirts are too short and reveal far too much.   This problem of indecency could be solved at a stroke if only we were allowed to wear trousers.

 On the other hand, the main argument against girls wearing trousers is that they are not smart or ladylike.  However, I would maintain that this is the 21st century and trousers and being worn by women in all walks of life, in hundreds of countries all over the world.   It is time education caught up.   Come on girls!  You have nothing to lose but your skirts!

 

  1. a) Is it well-structured? Give a reason for your answer.
  2. b) What are the writer’s 2 main supporting points?
  3. c) What is the OPPOSING argument|?
  4. d) What techniques has the writer used to persuade you?