{"id":43,"date":"2021-04-01T18:35:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T23:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/responses-to-thunberg\/?page_id=43"},"modified":"2021-04-21T11:22:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T16:22:11","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/responses-to-thunberg\/for-students\/write-like-greta\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"1. Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The purpose of these lessons is to <\/span><b>help you learn and use persuasive skills that can be effective in written or spoken communication<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, such as persuasive essays, speeches, or debates. Greta Thunberg has become famous in part because of her ability to effectively persuade other people to listen to her arguments and sometimes even change their opinions or behaviors. <\/span><b>These lessons use Greta as a \u201cmentor writer\u201d and speaker to help you learn to persuade others in a similar way on a topic you care about.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/responses-to-thunberg\/for-students\/write-like-greta\/choose-a-topic\/\">Next: Choose a topic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This writing sequence is inspired by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/nwp.org\/c3wp\/home\/what-is-c3wp?authuser=0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">C3WP approach<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to teaching evidence-based argument writing developed by the National Writing Project. Specifically, the lessons employ techniques described in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1fmKA5l0h76SLZ0VamXoJUlWUjSk3qPHJqqjqXso6qio\/edit#slide=id.p\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRoutine Argument Writing: Practicing Argument Moves\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0Bz5FDAu6zx_EdE5mSEhOcjVaLUU\/view\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWriting a Claim about a Current Event\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of these lessons is to help you learn and use persuasive skills that can be effective in written or spoken communication, such as persuasive essays, speeches, or debates. Greta Thunberg has become famous in part because of her ability to effectively persuade other people to listen to her arguments and sometimes even change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3796,"featured_media":0,"parent":24,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-43","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/responses-to-thunberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/responses-to-thunberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/responses-to-thunberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/responses-to-thunberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/responses-to-thunberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/responses-to-thunberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/responses-to-thunberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions\/154"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/responses-to-thunberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/responses-to-thunberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}