Invention+Essay+notes

Persuasive Essay Notes – Invention Essay Introduction – Each body paragraph:
 * Start with a bang! This is a marketing essay – catch your reader’s attention!
 * Explain what your product is.
 * Explain the general reason this is a good idea.
 * This is your thesis – it needs to be general so that all your paragraphs support this thesis/argument.
 * One each per appeal: ethos, pathos, logos
 * Ethos: someone famous, or advertising in a place your audience trusts.
 * You need to be clear about the audience for your product.
 * Pathos: tap into feelings.
 * Sad music with puppy eyes, funny stuff to make you happy, make the audience afraid, etc.

Conclusion: Wrapping up why someone really, really needs this! Expand to improved outlook on a bigger scale. Additional requirement somewhere in the body paragraphs: Somewhere you need to address the opposition.
 * Logos: logic (good or bad), data (true or not) Caveat emptor: Latin for “buyer beware.
 * Some might say this invention is unnecessary, but they’re wrong because . ..