Revising Your Persuasive Essay: Making Your Point with Evidence

The video tutorial teaches how to revise persuasive essays by ensuring evidence clearly supports the writer's point. It reviews the writing process, focusing on the revision stage, and explains how to improve writing by making changes. The tutorial provides examples of common mistakes and demonstrates how to add details to clarify evidence. It guides viewers through identifying topic sentences, rereading paragraphs, and adding sentences to show how evidence proves a point. The lesson concludes with a summary of the revision process.

What is the first step in the writing process?

• Revise and edit

• Publish the essay

• Write drafts

• Generate ideas

What does it mean to revise a piece of writing?

• To write a new draft

• To improve writing by making changes

• To brainstorm new ideas

• To publish the final version

Why might a reader be confused by an essay?

• The essay uses complex vocabulary

• The essay has too many paragraphs

• The evidence is not clear to the reader

• The essay is too long

What is a common reason for adding extra sentences to a paragraph?

• To summarize the essay

• To make the paragraph longer

• To clarify the evidence for the reader

• To introduce a new topic

How can adopting a pet save its life?

• By feeding it regularly

• By preventing it from being put to sleep

• By giving it a new home

• By providing it with toys

What is a benefit of adopting a pet compared to buying one from a store?

• Adoption is a bargain

• Adoption is more expensive

• Adoption requires more paperwork

• Adoption takes longer

What is the final step in the revision process?

• Identifying topic sentences

• Adding sentences to prove points

• Rereading paragraphs

• Publishing the essay