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"Offering instructive guidance while avoiding a typical classroom feel, Writing the Critical Essay: An Opposing Viewpoints Guide directly supports student achievement. This exciting new series is specifically designed to help students write effective five-paragraph essays. Writing the Critical Essay: An Opposing Viewpoints Guide expands Greenhaven Press's celebrated Opposing Viewpoints product line, providing easy access to multiple sides of current, yet timeless debates - ideal subjects for persuasive writing. Writing the Critical Essay: An Opposing Viewpoints Guide has all a student needs to complete an essay on a chosen controversial topic. Using exemplary presentations of opposing viewpoints as research material, each book features: model essays guiding students in writing a particular five-paragraph essay, including persuasive, descriptive, expository and cause-and-effect essays. Guided reading and discussion questions helping students understand the essays themselves and target persuasive techniques authors use to compose convincing arguments. A final essay encouraging students to go beyond the five-paragraph model. Sequential step-by-step exercises helping students outline arguments, write introductions and conclusions, and ultimately construct their own essays. Supplemental materials providing essay topic ideas. Bibliographic and electronic resources for further research."--PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE.