Writing Skills Challenge

Which is a persuasive paragraph convincing your friend to join a club at school?

• Write a persuasive paragraph emphasizing the negative aspects of joining a club, like feeling pressured to participate and being judged by others.

• Write a persuasive paragraph discouraging your friend from joining a club, highlighting the lack of benefits and potential conflicts with other members.

• Write a persuasive paragraph highlighting the benefits of joining a club, such as making new friends, developing skills, and exploring interests in a supportive environment.

• Write a persuasive paragraph focusing on the disadvantages of joining a club, such as wasting time and missing out on other activities.

Create a short story that entertains the reader with humor and suspense.

• Crafting a story with confusing characters and no dialogue will entertain readers with humor and suspense.

• Crafting a story with boring characters and predictable plot will entertain readers with humor and suspense.

• Crafting a story with serious characters and no plot twists will entertain readers with humor and suspense.

• Crafting a story with quirky characters, unexpected twists, and witty dialogue will entertain readers with humor and suspense.

Compose an informative article about the benefits of recycling for the environment.

• Recycling consumes more energy than producing new materials

• Recycling harms the environment by increasing pollution

• An informative article about the benefits of recycling for the environment should highlight how recycling helps in waste reduction, resource conservation, energy saving, pollution reduction, and greenhouse gas emission reduction.

• Recycling has no impact on waste reduction

How can you engage your audience effectively in a speech about climate change?

• Avoid eye contact with the audience

• Read directly from a script

• Use humor and jokes

• Use storytelling, provide clear information, use visuals, encourage audience participation, end with a call to action.

What techniques can you use to persuade someone to try a new hobby?

• Offer money as an incentive

• Tell them they have no choice

• Force them to try it

• Highlight benefits, offer to try together, share success stories, provide resources, emphasize enjoyment and growth.

Which will better entertain your classmates?

• Only providing negative views that present your views in a negative light.

• Share a funny anecdote that will make your classmates laugh and lighten the mood.

• Providing a lot of facts.

• Recite a boring historical fact

Explain the process of photosynthesis in a way that is easy for others to understand.

• Photosynthesis changes sunlight into chemical energy, splits water to liberate O₂, and fixes CO₂ into sugar.

• Photosynthesis is the process by which plants, algae, and some bacteria convert light energy into chemical energy stored in glucose.

• Photosynthesis is the process by which animals convert light energy into glucose.

• The process chemically converts carbon dioxide (CO2) and water into food (sugars) and oxygen. The chemical reaction often relies on a pigment called chlorophyll, which gives plants their green color.

What are some ways to capture the attention of your audience in a presentation?

• Reading directly from slides

• Monotonous tone of voice

• Engaging visuals, storytelling, thought-provoking questions, humor, and varied delivery style.

• Overloading slides with text

Craft a persuasive letter to the principal advocating for a new school policy.

• Crafting a persuasive letter to the principal advocating for a new school policy involves using aggressive language and threats.

• Crafting a persuasive letter to the principal advocating for a new school policy involves clearly stating the issue, providing evidence, proposing the new policy with details and benefits, addressing concerns, and concluding with a call to action.

• Crafting a persuasive letter to the principal advocating for a new school policy involves providing vague information without evidence.

• Crafting a persuasive letter to the principal advocating for a new school policy involves making personal attacks and insults.

Share a personal experience that informs others about the importance of mental health.

• Share a personal experience where work-related stress led to burnout, impacting productivity and relationships. Emphasize the role of therapy and self-care in recovery.

• Share a personal experience where mental health issues were dismissed by friends and family, leading to isolation and worsening symptoms.

• Share a personal experience where ignoring mental health warning signs resulted in a crisis situation, highlighting the importance of early intervention.

• Share a personal experience where seeking professional help for mental health concerns was stigmatized, hindering recovery and well-being.