Editorial Writing What is an editorial An article that states a persons or a newspapers opinion on a particular issue It is an evidence based persuasive piece of writing that has more than one point of view ID: 662108
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6th Grade Language Arts
Editorial WritingSlide2
What is an editorial
?
An article that states a person’s or a newspaper’s
opinion
on a particular issue. It is an
evidence
based
persuasive
piece of writing that has more than one point of view.Slide3
Where do you find editorials?
One of the most widely recognized types of persuasive writing is the
newspaper
editorial.
Newspapers such as the New York Times publish around
4
a day.Slide4
What is the purpose of an editorial?
Change people’s
worldview
Influence
the public's opinion
Lead to meaningful
actionSlide5
A few pointers when writing an editorial
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/07/for-the-sake-of-argument-writing-persuasively-to-craft-short-evidence-based-editorials/