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Download full textBrett, Peter; Thomas, Damon – Journal of Social Science Education, 2014
This paper explores persuasive writing and what more might be done to help equip young people with the written literacy tools to be effective participants in civic activism. Firstly, we argue from an Australian (and Tasmanian) context that there may be merit in teachers and students re-visiting some of the advice from classical rhetoric around the…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), Advocacy, Literacy
