Choose one of the two prompts below and write a response of at least 400 words. Read the prompt carefully, considering your audience, purpose and the conventions of your chosen genre.
Prompts
Your book club usually reads novels, but lately, members have expressed interest in reading a short piece of nonfiction about a relevant social issue.
You think the essay “On Seeing and Being Seen: The Difference Between Writing With Empathy and Writing With Love” by Alicia Elliott would be ideal. Write an email to your group describing why you think it’s a good fit.
Be sure to summarize the essay and then make a clear case for the text’s inclusion. Why is it a valuable read?
You have just been hired as a writer for a student website. Your first assignment is to write a blog on how to write persuasively.
Your editor wants you to use “On Seeing and Being Seen: The Difference Between Writing With Empathy and Writing With Love” by Alicia Elliott as an example of persuasive techniques.
Write a blog of about 400 words that explains some of the most important techniques of writing persuasively and use the article as an example.
Since most of your readers will not have read this article, you will have to briefly summarize it for them as well.